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Preliminary results show Chinese COVID-19 vaccine safe: The Lancet

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B.C. confirms first case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a child

There have been no new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 250 deaths in British Columbia. It was announced Tuesday (Oct. 13) that Site C experienced a th...

Another person charged in alleged plot to kidnap MI governor

Prosecutors provided enough evidence to move toward trial for five MI men accused of plotting to kidnap the state's governor, a federal judge ruled Friday in Gr...

Kendall County COVID-19 cases increased by 54 from Monday to Wednesday

As of Thursday, 657 Shelby County residents have recovered, and 137 have not recovered. A county with 1-10 cases per 100,000 people is considered to have comm...

Blood type O least vulnerable to Covid; A, AB at most risk

One observed the 95 critically sick COVID-19 patients at hospitals in Vancouver, Canada, from February to April. After controlling for certain factors, they f...

Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Day Three

Republicans said that such allegations were unfounded, given that Republicans universally support policies such as a guarantee that insurance will cover pre-exi...

Johnson & Johnson halts COVID-19 vaccine trial after participant falls sick

Developing countries must have "equal access" to future COVID-19 vaccines, Indonesia's foreign minister warned, as wealthy nations scoop up billions of doses. J...

New COVID-19 Restrictions Affect More than Half of England Population

But our efforts would be so much more effective if we work together. The calls came as new controls including in Lancashire and London mean 28 million peo...

Blow to two drugs used in India to fight Covid

Asked for his opinion, Matthew Spinelli, MD, of University of California, San Francisco, cautioned that Solidarity involved many different settings around the w...

Hunger not just tragedy but also disgrace - pope

Viorel Gutu, the FAO's representative in Turkey and sub-regional coordinator for Central Asia, said the hunger has been increasing since 2014 globally, while ob...

York Region pushed back to phase two lockdown

Toronto , Ottawa and Peel Region - the three COVID-19 hot spots - have already been rolled back to a modified Stage 2 for 28 days, closing indoor restaurant d...

Dedicated Medical Center Holding Flu Clinic at Whataburger

However, getting the vaccine provides benefits even if the flu bug bites you. Flu vaccinations are available at hospitals, pharmacies, private medical offic...

Shelby County reports 12 new cases of COVID-19

The number of active cases sits at 85 and the number of outbreaks has dropped to four - all in long-term care homes. According to county data, the city of DeK...

Doctors caution about study dissecting relationship between blood type and COVID-19

Similarly, people with blood type B and AB also received more positive Covid-19 results than expected. The authors hypothesize that the presence of virus-neut...

Census Deadline Moved Up To Early Friday Morning

The Census Bureau reports that only three states have less than a 99.9% rate of enumeration now: Louisiana (98.3%), MS (99.4%), and South Dakota (99.8%). Lupa...

COVID-19: Government will give 'detailed consideration' to recommended Level 5 restrictions

The Fine Gael leader said a second lockdown during the winter months would be hard for both people and businesses. You also can not meet people socially in ot...

Trials of Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Start in Venezuela, President Maduro Says

Despite President Trump's repeated promises of a vaccine before election day, scientists have been cautioning that it's unlikely that data showing a shot actu...

Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban tests positive for COVID-19

Alabama hasn't disclosed positive tests among players since the pandemic started, but Saban said Wednesday that they "haven't had any indication" of an outbreak...

Explained: Why WHO vs Gilead on remdesivir matters

After months of planning and testing a handful of repurposed drugs that studies from around the world have found useful in treating COVID-19, researchers in the...

Coronavirus: People with this blood group least vulnerable to COVID-19

Despite equal representation, fewer people with blood type O caught Covid-19; just 38 percent of the people who tested positive were blood type O, while 44 perc...

Your Blood Type May Predict Your Risk For Severe COVID-19

In the first study, researchers compared Danish health registry data from over 473,000 individuals tested for COVID-19 to data from a control group of more tha...

Facebook bans anti-vaccination ads, no word policy on anti-vax posts

There are still ads by pages like " Texans For Vaccine Choice " now running on Facebook. The Guardian noted that several ads discouraging vaccine mandates...

COVID-19 Numbers as of 3 pm October 14

There have been four new health-care facility outbreaks, and two outbreaks have been declared over. There have been five new COVID-19 related deaths, for a to...

Eli Lilly is commenting on experiments on an experimental treatment

While the reason for the suspension wasn't revealed, the spokeswoman said the trial was paused " to cautiously ensure the safety of the patients participating...

BC health officials report 158 new coronavirus cases

The Wyoming Department of Health reports the state has 6,914 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of 174 over the past 24 hours, and 57 deaths in the st...

World Bank approves $12B for coronavirus vaccines, tests

The new vaccine, called EpiVacCorona, would arrive less than 10 weeks after Russian Federation became the first country in the world to approve a Covid-19 vacci...

WHO calls for herd immunity approach against Covid-19

Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease through vaccinations or through the mass spread of a disease. "Never in...

New expanded team to trace COVID-19 cases

Ontario is reporting 721 new COVID-19 cases today and its overall positivity rate now stands at three per cent, a development that the province's Associate Medi...

COVID-19 may slow spread of flu 3 min read

Novant Health UVA Health System maintains patient safety as a priority, especially with respect to COVID-19 concerns. Last flu season , 188 flu deaths among...

Netherlands witnesses first COVID-19 reinfection death in world; check details

The case is believed to be the first North American case of reinfection with COVID-19. Her condition worsened in the following days, leading to her death tw...

J&J: Mystery Illness Pauses Largest COVID Vaccine Trial

On the second leg of the August tr. Large-scale studies, such as those required for vaccines developed in the US, are created to assess not only if a vaccine ...

Two new COVID-19 cases, one resolved in Oxford, Elgin counties

Howard Bauchner, JAMA's editor in chief, and Dr. Phil Fontanarosa, JAMA's executive editor, wrote in an editorial accompanying the new study on Monday. Co...

Sen. Brown slams Republicans for 'illegitimate' Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Barrett wouldn't say, and also used the anti-LGBTQ buzzphrase "sexual preference" to describe orientation, indicating that she believes it is a choice . "It's ...

Harris, fellow Democrats target Trump Supreme Court nominee on Obamacare

Only weeks ago, we lost an icon in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , a woman who spent her life fighting to protect women's rights, voting rights, civil rights, LG...