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US Covid vaccine could be available by November

Why It Matters: The CDC guidelines, in the form of three documents, were sent out to officials in all states and five cities on August 27- the same day Presi...

New Cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Tuesday

There are now 165 active cases in Brandon and 246 active cases in Prairie Mountain Health. The new rule includes drivers, students and any other passengers on t...

Vaccine group says 76 rich countries now committed to "COVAX" access plan

Ottawa has struck new deals with two additional USA companies working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, as it seeks to improve its chances for Canadians to receive...

Canada's top doctor urges mask wearing during sex, no kissing

Wearing a mask before causal sex is something she feels isn't so relevant in Victoria, because of the state's stage four lockdown which Prof Bennett says limits...

COVID-19 testing pilots to be expanded in £500m package

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said saliva-based testing will be used for the Salford pilot, which will involve the city council and other lo...

Oklahoma Teen Allegedly Dies from Doing 'Benadryl Challenge'

The Oklahoma City victim, who has not been identified, was described as a happy and 'faith-driven" teen who was not known to experiment with drugs, KFOR-TV rep...

Trudeau announces COVID-19 vaccine deals with two more United States producers

The vaccine candidate is now in phase 2/3 trial, and the two companies have so far enrolled 23,000 healthy adults for the trial which will measure how effective...

COVID-19 pandemic: Sanofi, GSK kickstart trial for protein-based vaccine

The drugmakers were also quoted as saying that soon after they get affirmative results in their first stage human trials, they would roll out large scale human ...

U.S. CDC reports 183,050 coronavirus deaths

Several of the posts, which were widely shared across social media networks before being taken down for violating platform policies, were linked to followers of...

U.S. states must prepare to distribute vaccine by November

Last week the CDC changed its testing guidance to say that not all close contacts with a confirmed COVID-19 case necessarily have to be tested. According to...

CDC says all countries should join global COVID-19 vaccine effort

The vaccines may be available free of cost first to high-risk groups including health care works, national security personnel, residents and staff at COVID-19...

COVID-19 antibodies present in patients four months after recovery

However, several recent studies had pointed out that the number of antibodies produced in people who contracted (and recovered) COVID-19, completely disappeared...

Chadwick Boseman Gets Heartfelt Tribute from Black Panther Co-Star Letitia Wright

On Tuesday, Wright posted a almost six-minute video to Instagram which she dedicated to "my brother", as they played siblings in the Marvel superhero film. Wr...

Coronavirus: Cheap hydrocortisone drug reduces deaths in sickest patients, research finds

Researchers said it was equivalent to about 68% of critically ill patients surviving after treatment with the steroids, compared to approximately 60% surviving ...

U.S. says it won’t join global effort to find COVID-19 vaccine

All four companies are part of Operation Warp Speed in the USA that hopes to have a coronovirus vaccine ready by the end of the year. The trial expands on the a...

Humoral immune response to SARS-CoV2 in Iceland English English Brazil

The studies tested more than 200 well-characterized monoclonal antibodies and VHH nanobodies identified by the company in six weeks using its proprietary synthe...

Canada reaches deal with Novavax to secure millions of COVID-19 vaccines

Novavax has agreed to supply up to 76 million doses of its experimental vaccine, while Johnson & Johnson will supply up to 38 million doses of its vaccine candi...

COVID-19 vaccine use before ending clinical tests

The Japanese government may offer Covid-19 vaccinations for free to all residents so that the number of future fatalities and those developing severe symptoms a...

Novavax Strikes Covid-19 Vaccine Deal With Canada As Investors Take Profits

Those agreements would involve Canada receiving a minimum of 20 million doses of Pfizer's BNT162 vaccine, which has launched a Phase 2/3 study that includes u...

Australia's Covid-19 deaths in virus hotspot fall to two-week low

Both plans are set to be revealed by the Victorian Government on Sunday, September 6 as COVID-19 cases statewide continued to drop with 70 new infections and fi...

Miley Cyrus Covers Eagles to Pay Tribute to Late Grandma

Miley Cyrus came in like a disco ball at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, delivering an electrifying performance of " Midnight Sky ", marking the single's...

COVID-19 Antibodies Found in Patients Four Months After Infection

Kari Stefansson, MD, from deCODE Genetics-Amgen in Reykjavik, Iceland , and colleagues, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine , also found that 44% o...

CDC: Prepare for coronavirus vaccine as soon as late October

Fauci said he had his surgery on a Thursday and was told not to talk until that Sunday, but he "didn't strictly listen to him", but he will now because he think...

The Kent patients who helped discover game-changing Covid drug

Ground-breaking new research will change the treatment of Covid-19 patients in critical care around the world. This result opens up more choices of steroids, ...

Coronavirus may spread through the air after 24 bus passengers tested positive

An individual on a badly aerated Chinese bus contaminated nearly 2 lots other travelers with coronavirus although lots of weren't sitting nearby, AFP reporte...

No country can just pretend pandemic is over: World Health Organization chief

Meanwhile, the death toll in the USA from COVID-19 has passed 183,000. Although the rate of new infections in several states has stabilized or even declined o...

Fewer Deaths from COVID Only — Revised CDC Figures

In a tweet , which has now been delete by Twitter , the agency was accused of "quietly updating their death statistics" to admit only six-percent of all rec...

Joe Biden to travel to flashpoint city of Kenosha on Thursday

Protests were sparked after Jacob Blake , 29, was shot in the back several times at close range by police after he tried to get into a vehicle where his childr...

Feds Sign Two More COVID-19 Vaccine Agreements

The Phase 2 portion of the Phase 1/2 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of NVX-CoV2373 began in August in the United States and Austra...

Kildare Covid restrictions to be lifted immediately

Members of the Government made that decision earlier today following a recommendation from the National Public Health Emergency Team . When the local restric...