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Jerry Falwell Jr. Taking Leave of Absence From Liberty University

Falwell Jr. was among the first prominent evangelicals to endorse Donald Trump during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. "She's ...

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All pubs and restaurants in the three counties must close tomorrow, but will be allowed serve takeaway meals and shops can still remain open. 226 cases have b...

Cuomo says all NY schools can reopen, citing low COVID rate

He said of the 749 districts in the state, 127 have not submitted their opening plans to the state and 50 plans are incomplete. "If there's a spike in the inf...

County Officials 'Cautiously Optimistic' About COVID-19 Spread

While the problem persists, the state has stopped adding and removing counties from its monitoring list, which determines which businesses can be open, Californ...

New COVID-19 Cases Down Sharply from Previous Day

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Eli Lilly Kicks Off Covid-19 Antibody Trial In Nursing Home Residents

The phase 3 study - which Lilly says is the first of its kind - is called BLAZE-2 and will enrol around 2,400 subjects at care homes that have had confirmed...

Ontario Premier to make Statement in Niagara

Mr. Ford said Thursday he has "full control" over the province's plan to reopen schools this fall, after initially saying it wasn't the government's plan, but t...

Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine looks promising in early data

The investigational vaccine was delivered using its saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant, which has demonstrated a potent and well-tolerated effect by stimulating th...

Teladoc Health Merging with Livongo Health in Deal Worth $18.5 Billion

Since then it has expanded to cover high blood pressure and behavioral health , before going public with a $355 million IPO past year. Gorevic will be CEO of t...

Australian states close borders to battle virus

Speaking to media on Wednesday, Palaszczuk said both jurisdictions presented a "concerning situation" which lead to the decision to close the border from this S...

Gov. DeWine tests positive for COVID-19

A PCR test, which is more sensative, was administered in the afternoon when the governor arrived back in Columbus. The governor said he and the first lady pla...

COVID-19 outbreaks declared at 2 Metro Vancouver care homes

There are now five active healthcare outbreaks: four in long-term care and one in acute care. Dr. Bonnie Henry says the cost of keeping schools closed is too ...

Masks to be mandatory for school staff, Grades 4-12 students

For students and staff, the masks will be mandatory while in common areas like hallways, on school buses, or shared spaces where social distancing is not possib...

Weekly Coronavirus Deaths Fall More Than A Quarter In Seven Days - ONS

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says tighter coronavirus restrictions in Victoria will lead to as many as 400,000 people losing their job or seeing their hours ...

Sartell-St. Stephen School Board Layout Framework for School Year

In a press release from District 742, it says, "The superintendent emphasized that the district will review community health data provided by the state every tw...

Canada signs deals with Pfizer, Moderna for supply of COVID-19 vaccines

Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, World Health Organization Director Gener...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive For Coronavirus

DeWine's office confirmed the positive test in a news release. DeWine is returning to Columbus with his wife, who also has no symptoms . The Governor will fo...

They may never be a 'silver bullet' for COVID-19, WHO warns

The Environment Well being Firm has warned that, inspite of strong hopes for a vaccine, there could by no means be a "silver bullet" for COVID-19, and the highw...

Moderna Covid-19 vax shows promise in mouse studies

Even with progress being made and agreements occurring with new partners, the wait for a vaccine may still be a while. The US government Wednesday announced...

Wall Street Keeps Rallying, S&P Within 2% of Record

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 124 points, or 0.5%, at 26,789, as of 11:30 a.m. Still, the Composite did manage to clinch yet another record close ...

COVID-19 May Not Target Taste Buds Directly

Therefore, the finding suggested that the T cell responsible for fighting with common cold viruses can sequence similar fragments of SARS-CoV-2 and hence induce...

CDC expects 2020 outbreak of life-threatening AFM

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Ottawa Looks To Secure Potential COVID-19 Vaccines

Though the partners inked a $1.95 billion supply deal with the USA, they haven't received government funding to support R&D or manufacturing scale-up. This plac...

Moderna says discussing supply deals with countries for COVID-19 vaccine

But Procurement Minister Anita Anand will not yet say how much Canada is spending or how many doses of either vaccine candidate Canada will get because she says...

Ontario reports 86 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

Ontario reported 91 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, 88 on Monday , 116 on Sunday and 124 on Saturday. The total number of lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in O...

United Kingdom orders millions of 90-minute Covid test kits

The government has denied claims it has been forced to drop regular testing of care home residents this summer. For the DNA tests, 5,000 Nudgeboxes will be ...

Coronavirus: Ten new cases but no further deaths in Northern Ireland

The local emergency Joint Operations Center on Monday reported the county's sixth death from the disease alongside an increase in confirmed coronavirus cases fr...

Eli Lilly starts late-stage study of coronavirus drug in nursing homes

Another phase 2 study, BLAZE-1, in people recently diagnosed with COVID-19 in the ambulatory setting is also ongoing - Lilly estimates that enrolment will be ...

Embryos Could Be Susceptible To Coronavirus, Study Suggests

The study, "3C-like protease inhibitors block coronavirus replication in vitro and improve survival in MERS-CoV-infected mice", can be found here. New York,...

BC health officials report 146 new coronavirus cases since Friday

Fraser Health said the outbreak is limited to the long-term care unit at the facility, and that there is no crossover among staff who work in other areas of the...

De Blasio announces new NYC health commissioner after Barbot resigns amid pandemic

Meanwhile, few politicians in America have achieved the same level of unpopularity as Mayor de Blasio, who mounted a futile presidential campaign last fall that...

Vietnam Reports One Death and 10 New COVID019 Infections

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Risk of Covid-19 infection from breastfeeding negligible

In a press briefing on Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus discussed the impact of the pandemic on the world and the efforts needed to c...