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Trump Completes Hydroxychloroquine Treatment: 'I'm Still Here'
Some more-recent studies have doubted the drug's effectiveness against COVID-19 and noted the risks, though the latter haven't caused the drug to be withdrawn d...
Covid 19 coronavirus: Trump stops taking hydroxychloroquine
Tedros said the decision was made after a paper published Friday in The Lancet found that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine given to patients hospitalized ...
French doctor defiant on hydroxychloroquine despite study
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stopped a clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine , a malaria drug US President Donald Trump said he was taking , in...
'First wave' of COVID-19 not over, World Health Organization official says
Europe, the USA and Canada must "continue to put in place the public health and social measures, the surveillance measures, the testing measures and a comprehen...
Care home coronavirus deaths surge past 11000
The overall total according to the department remains at 514. The Office for National Statistics stated on Tuesday there had been 53,960 extra deaths in Engla...
Virginia Gov. Makes Face Masks Mandatory in Public Places
Northam made the announcement during Tuesday's press conference in Richmond, after hinting at the requirement at last Friday's presser. People will not be req...
Bocelli had virus, donates plasma
Some coronavirus patients have received plasma from former patients as part of their treatment to boost recovery. The singer said later that his symptoms ha...
Made-in-Canada coronavirus vaccine inches closer to reality
In an important milestone in the Covid-19 vaccine race, an experimental vaccine from China , which was the first candidate to proceed to human trial, has been ...
COVID-19 cases in Douglas County remain at 63
Even the neighboring rural southeastern OR counties of Harney and Malheur have had cases - albeit only one case in Harney. In a release officials say that num...
Trump Administration Announces Cap on Insulin Costs for Seniors
CMS reports that one in three seniors has diabetes. The news comes as some polls show Trump's support slipping with seniors , a voting bloc that may play a p...
Virus spread 'still accelerating' in Brazil, Peru and Chile
The WHO has said that a safety team would review data on hydroxychloroquine by next month, a day after officials cited safety concerns that prompted them to ...
AstraZeneca Wins $1.2B from BARDA to Develop, Manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine
President Xi Jinping's government is throwing the might of the Chinese state behind the country's vaccine developers as the world races to make a shot against t...
China's COVID-19 vaccine trial shows promising results: The Lancet
However the Oxford University vaccine trial's chances of success could be halved due to how quickly the coronavirus is fading in the United Kingdom, it has be...
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy approves activities for pro teams
Phil Murphy announced Tuesday, with guidance expected Wednesday. The Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers also train in the state. TAPinto Verona/Ce...
World Health Organization says hydroxychloroquine safety findings expected by mid-June
Having sung the praises of hydroxychloroquine during his coronavirus briefings in March and April, Mr Trump stunned reporters on May 18 when he announced ...
Coronavirus: USask researchers expect human clinical trials for vaccine in the fall
For this, Prof Chen put a caveat to the findings saying: "These results should be interpreted cautiously". "The challenges in the development of a COVD-19 vac...
Medic who survived Covid-19 is antibody superdonor
SANBSPlasma is basically the soup that carries our red blood cells around; it is a clear and gold fluid; it nearly looks like liquid gold - and for patients who...
Sanofi sheds Regeneron stake, but insists collaboration is unaffected
Sanofi now owns approximately 23.2 million Regeneron shares and intends to sell approximately 12.8 million shares in the public offering. Sanofi , which now...
New study says vitamin D can't prevent or treat coronavirus
The trust said there are arrangements in place for new patients to access treatment and care "in other appropriate healthcare settings in the area should they n...
World Health Organization temporarily halts hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine trials for coronavirus treatments pending safety review
France's health minister Olivier Véran tweeted that an advisory counsel would look into the use of the drug following the release of The Lancet study in ord...
Novavax shares jump after starting Covid-19 vaccine study in Australia
The first-in-human trial showed that the Ad5 vectored Covid-19 vaccine was tolerable and immunogenic in healthy adults . Proof of its effectiveness will,...
World Health Organization warns of a second peak in coronavirus infections
India saw a record single-day jump in new cases for the seventh straight day. Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom immediately trail the US with their COVID-...
UK's Covid-19 excess death toll rises to more than 60,000
A further 134 people in the United Kingdom have died after testing positive for coronavirus , according to the latest figures from the Department of Health. Th...
Coronavirus: PM faces potential rebellion over NHS fee for overseas carers
Sir Keir said of the decision: "This is a victory for common decency and the right thing to do. It's not enough just to #ClapforCarers every Thursday night, the...
World Health Organization suspends HCQ clinical trial on COVID-19 patients
The drug's security information is being reviewed by a monitoring board, and the trials have been placed on maintain, the World Health Organization chief Tedro...
United Kingdom minister resigns over Boris Johnson's top aide's controversial lockdown trip
Mr Ross said Mr Cummings' explanation of why he travelled during the coronavirus lockdown was based on decisions "others felt were not available to them". But C...
Novavax starts human trials for coronavirus vaccine
About a dozen experimental vaccines against the coronavirus are in early stages of testing or poised to start, mostly in China, the U.S. and Europe. "But we'r...
Coronavirus Vaccine Developed at Oxford Lab Could Be Only 50% Effective
The side effects were mild and transient, suggesting that coronavirus treatment is safe to use. The ICMR is the frontrunner institution in handling the Covi...
Swann welcomes Remdesivir for treatment of Covid-19
Those are the divergent conclusions of new data reported in the last few days, as countries across Europe start to relax coronavirus lockdowns and contempla...
Chris Cuomo took 'less safe version' of hydroxychloroquine, McEnany says
Trump revealed on Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc as a preventative measure against COVID-19. "If it were made more readily avai...