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Coronavirus May Have Mutated To Become More Contagious, Study Finds
The spike is helpful for the virus in infecting the host cells. A death due to Covid-19 may not be attributed to another disease, such as cancer, and should b...
India reports 88600 fresh COVID-19 cases, tally mounts to 5992533
With a single-day spike of 88,600 new COVID19 cases, India's COVID-19 case count neared 6 million mark, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family W...
New Strain of COVID-19 Bypasses Masks and Hand-washing
The spike is helpful for the virus in infecting the host cells. But why do some people get far, far sicker than others? The actual Covid-19 death toll in Indo...
Over 80% of Britons not heeding COVID-19 self-isolation rules
Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething however said that this issue had been avoided in Wales. Over 80 per cent of people in Britain are not adhering to self-...
Houston study: More contagious coronavirus strain now dominates
They add that regularly monitoring RDW of Covid-19 patients could help determine whether they are responding to treatment or getting worse. Two papers publishe...
Canada signs deal with AstraZeneca for 20M doses of COVID vaccine candidate
Trudeau also announced today that Canada will give $220 million to the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility, an worldwide initiative co-led by the Wo...
Husband-wife team study why children are less affected by COVID-19
Those spike-protein antibodies include neutralizing antibodies, which block the coronavirus from infecting cells. Scientists involved in the search for a ...
US records a total of 7 million Covid-19 infections
In the last week, the country has performed over 1 million coronavirus tests three out of seven days - a new record, according to data from The COVID Tracking P...
20,419 new cases takes virus tally to 13,21,176
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Twenty New COVID-19 Cases Announced Friday Afternoon in Lewis County
As of this week, Thurston County has administered over 42,000 tests. There are 8,081 total deaths attributed to COVID-19, an increase of 2 new deaths reported...
Large genetic study finds novel coronavirus strain more contagious
The study by researchers in Houston was released as COVID-19 deaths approached 202,000 . The study found very two distinct waves over the summer. Of 987 pa...
Seven COVID-19 cases tied to downtown Toronto restaurant
The department identified the three closed restaurants as MARBL, Casa Mezcal and King Taps, which are all within 10 city blocks of each other on King Street Wes...
London records massive cases of coronavirus
Some public health experts criticized the measures, saying they didn't go far enough to stem the spread of the disease, which is hitting all age groups and area...
Bharat Biotech Inks Deal with Washington University for Intranasal Covid-19 Vaccine
Phase I trials - a single nasal dose - will take place at Saint Louis University's Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit. "The licensing agreements will lea...
China reports good results on 11 vaccine candidates
Janssen will lead the trial as regulatory sponsor, with funding assistance from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomed...
Select pharmacies offer COVID-19 tests, including one in Huntsville, with limitations
Further information about COVID-19 tests and testing centres including pharmacies and assessment centres can be found here. The province said more locations w...
Public health issues warning about COVID-19 isolation requirement
The UK government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme offered furloughed workers 80 per cent of their salary, up to 2,500 pounds per month. The ONS said: 'In...
Trump to announce Supreme Court pick Saturday, Republicans close ranks
Coyle said the two justices had very different approaches to interpreting the Constitution - Scalia was an originalist and a textualist, whereas Ginsburg soug...
Australia Says World Needs To Know Origins Of COVID-19
What Happened: The study will enroll up to 100,000 individuals, aged between 18-84 years of age, with and without relevant comorbidities, Novavax said in a ...
Ron Paul hospitalized after appearing to suffer stroke during livestream
Paul was live-streaming his weekday Liberty Report , according to the New York Post, before he was hospitalized for "precautionary reasons". He is "lucid" and ...
New Restrictions for Bars and Restaurants
John Papastergiou, a pharmacy owner at another Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto, said his team was prepared for logistical issues and said pharmacies have had to...
Third patient dies in Foothills Hospital outbreaks, 114 staff members isolated
Alberta Health Services has released Wednesday's report on COVID-19, detailing the numbers over the past 24 hours. The number of staff members in isolation ha...
Two charged in deadly COVID-19 outbreak at MA veterans' home
An American flag flew at half-mast at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home in MA last spring, when dozens of veterans died at the facility. Walsh and Dr. David Clinton ...
Upstate Poison Center sees overdoses that may be linked to ‘Benadryl Challenge’
Some teens have been using the over-the-counter allergy medicine, also known as diphenhydramine, as part of a challenge on the social network, the FDA said. Mor...
Washtenaw County among healthiest communities, US News reports
Los Alamos scored relatively well in income equity with a 3.72 score in neighborhood income disparities, meaning the county has a smaller income gap than the re...
United Kingdom hospitals race to clear backlog as coronavirus cases rise
Overall, 423,326 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the UK. Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have been 57,600 dea...
Governor DeSantis announces Florida will move to Phase Three
Though he said that this is "Phase 3" of the reopening process, "Phase 3" would technically still restrict businesses to operating at a maximum of 75% capacity....
CDC suddenly pulls guidance about coronavirus spreading through tiny aerosol particles
Butler said there was no external political pressure behind the change in this instance. Scientists studying the virus have been pushing health agencies f...
Ontario making bars and restaurants close earlier, shuts down strip clubs
The goal is to prioritize those who are at the greatest risk, while shifting away from untargeted asymptomatic testing. According to a provincial webpage trac...
Drugmaker Novavax begins late-stage vaccine trial in UK
However, it will take months - probably early 2021 - before we know if the vaccine is successful. "With a high level of SARS-CoV-2 transmission observed and e...
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