An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has arrived in China to prepare an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The virus that causes COVID-19, which is believed to have started in animals before jumping...
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Dr. Li-Meng Yan lays out in her Fox interview a more detailed, fleshed-out version of what the rest of the world already knew.
The third recovery phase will be "one of slower growth, likely in fits and starts," and will be defined by the path of the virus," the bank said.
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In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the advance of COVID-19 presents indigenous people with a cruel cultural dilemma — remain in their villages with little medical help, or seek safety in the city and risk being deprived of their ancestral...
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They call themselves “long-haulers”, “long-tailers”, or simply survivors. Some have been sick almost as long as the new coronavirus is known to have existed. Six months after the virus began to scorch its way across the...
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President Donald Trump’s top health officials can no longer use the White House briefing room as a daily bullhorn for public safety messaging during the pandemic, so they’ve settled on a different strategy: contradict Trump on other...
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THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 -- Aerosol boxes meant to protect health care workers when they intubate COVID-19 patients may actually increase their exposure to airborne virus particles, an Australian study warns.
Intubation is done when patients are...
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Egyptian security agencies have tried to stifle criticism about the handling of the coronavirus health crisis by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's government
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THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Factors smaller than a cell and as large as the planet are at play when a virus leaps from an animal to a human.
The question of how that happened with SARS-CoV-2, which causes the...
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(MedPage Today) -- Other respiratory viruses haven't co-infected SARS-CoV-2 patients much so far, although those findings from the end of the cold and flu season may need an update in the fall, researchers suggested.
A respiratory panel virus...
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Researchers propose a decentralized, global wildlife biosurveillance system to identify -- before the next pandemic emerges -- animal viruses that have the potential to cause human disease.
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To children of the '90s, Bill Nye The Science Guy was an icon of breaking it down. You want to understand volcanoes, phases of matter, or evolution? Bill Nye was your (science) guy. But Nye's qualifications don't end at TV show host for kiddos. He's...
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REUTERS/Lucas JacksonAs the world grapples with COVID-19, virologists know that other potential pandemics are waiting in the wings, able to do similar damage in the wrong circumstances.
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“Coronavirus patients are pouring into hospitals across the American South and West, straining front-line doctors and nurses and draining supplies of protective gear and testing equipment, according to health-care workers around the...
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Half a year into the pandemic, it’s well-accepted that coronavirus can be spread when an infected person expels respiratory droplets by coughing or sneezing.But can the virus be transmitted in microscopically small droplets that are released into...
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With the daily number of new coronavirus infections in Texas now exceeding that of most other states, experts say Texas has become a hot spot of the global pandemic and that more aggressive measures are needed to slow the virus’ spread. Texas’...
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Public health experts warn that we don't know enough about how the virus impacts kids, but we do know schools could create "super-spreading" locations.
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Researchers have designed a 'catch and kill' air filter that can trap the virus responsible for COVID-19, killing it instantly.
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Scientists are calling attention to a potential link between COVID-19 and brain damage after a study released Wednesday found more evidence to suggest that the virus can cause neurological issues.Researchers at the University College London (...
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The front page of Sunday’s New York Times featured a co-lead story by J. David Goodman lecturing Lubbock residents on masks: “Virus Inundates Texas, Fed by Abiding Mistrust Of Government Orders.” The subhead was a quote: “Masks? ‘We’re...
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