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This brings total Saskatchewan numbers to 433 reported cases, 122 active. There are 29 new cases in the far north, four in the north and one in Saskatoon. "Ag...

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Trump administration to speed coronavirus vaccine development, says official

It will take a united effort by private pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and the military to get there. The project will reportedly be funded by...

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In a statement, the school said all students who had been in contact with the infected person would receive a phone call. There has been another death at the ...

Trump claims US will have coronavirus vaccine by end of 2020

They come at me with questions that are disgraceful. The woman in that case, who claimed she was following Trump's advice despite openly attacking Trump on so...

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The US is planning to begin treating some of the most seriously ill Covid-19 patients with with the antiviral medication Remdesivir , the maker of the drug has...

Saline County Steady With 21 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

Case numbers were not updated Sunday by the Panhandle Health District or the Idaho Department of Health. Livingston County health officials are working with t...

COVID-19 cases reach 49

Benton County saw an increase of eight confirmed cases, bringing their totals to 29 cases and one death. Conlon added that though the virus predominantly affe...

Japan health ministry moves to approve remdesivir

The United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on Wednesday revealed the encouraging results of a clinical trial involving mo...

Tara Reade Cancels TV Spot Amid Threats on Her, Family

Biden said on Friday that the allegations "aren't true". Biden's critics from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party as well as supporters of President ...

Lawrence County reports first case of COVID-19

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FDA grants emergency authorization to use drug remdesivir for some coronavirus cases

Gilead, the company behind Remdesivir, says they will donate 1.5 million vials of the drug to help patients. Gilead spent $50 million on the research and deve...

Joe Biden’s answer: The presidential candidate strenuously denies sexually assaulting Tara Reade

On Friday, Biden finally broke his silence about the allegation to deny it. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden officially asked the secre...

Starke County Reports 17th COVID-19 Case

This, after 4,178 more tests were conducted. A 17 case was reported by the Starke County Health Department Saturday morning. Governor Tim Walz has said before...

HMC starts COVID-19 patients' treatment with convalescent plasma

Plasma is a clear liquid which makes up about half of people's blood volume and carries red and white blood cells and platelets around the body. "Honestly, I fe...

FDA OKs Remdesivir Emergency Use for Severe COVID-19

The United States has the most cases and fatalities at more than 1 million and at least 63,200 with much of the country in lockdown to contain the spread of the...

Over 1 Million People Worldwide have Recovered from the Coronavirus

The country with the second most number of COVID-19 infections is Spain , with 232,128 confirmed cases and 23,822 deaths, followed by Italy with 201,505 cases ...

President Trump: Tara Reade's accusations 'very credible'

Trump is in a hard position in trying to take advantage of this: He has been accused of sexual misconduct, groping and harassment by more than a dozen women . ...

Queen releases You Are The Champions for healthcare workers

Proceeds will go to the World Health Organization's Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Guitarist Brian May , Taylor and vocalist Lambert - who perf...

Apple, Google To Release Early Versions Of Contact Tracing Tool To Developers

But who pays is an open question - at the average pay of $17 an hour for public health workers, a year's worth of full time work by 100,000 people is about $3.6...

Pence about-face on mask: Darcy Cartoon

Pence, who is well known for his anti-LGBT+ views , came under fire this week when he visited the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and ignored the hospital's instructi...

United Kingdom death toll passes 24000 and becoming one of Europe's worst

As of Wednesday morning, 632,794 people in Britain have been tested of which 165,221 tested positive for the disease, said the Department of Health and Social...

Georgia Gov. Kemp Orders Vulnerable Sheltered Till June 12

Some venues, including bars and nightclubs, will not be allowed to reopen until May 14. While saying that businesses could reopen, he also encouraged people t...

Pritzker: stay-at-home order will remain in place

Governor J.B. Pritzker called the lawsuit "irresponsible". Pritzker said the nurses' primary functions will be to administer swab tests to the staff and resid...

Britney Spears burns down her home gym

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Coronavirus: UK ethnic minorities suffer extra Covid deaths, says think tank

The think tank found that after eliminating age and geography, people from black African backgrounds were 3.7 times as likely to die in hospital from the diseas...

Coronavirus trial drug remdesivir's maker aims for wide distribution: Gilead CEO

The FDA could make it immediately available through an " emergency use authorization ", which speeds experimental drugs, tests and other medical products to pat...

AstraZeneca and Oxford University announce landmark agreement for COVID-19 vaccine | Vaccines

Vaccitech Ltd and the University of Oxford have announce an agreement with the UK-based global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the further devel...

Anti-Ebola Drug Remdesivir Reported To Speed Recovery From Covid-19

Restrictions on bed availability led to most patients enrolling later in the disease course, Professor Bin Cao said. The possible licensing applications for r...

CDC adds 6 new COVID-19 symptoms

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has warned people to monitor themselves for fever, cough and shortness of breath. Prof. Hopkins said: "O...

Contact tracing key to slowing spread of COVID-19

The UK Government has announced the infrastructure was being put in place so that contact tracing could be rolled out on a large scale. It will take an army o...

Coronavirus: Number of deaths in care homes in the area revealed

Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the Local Government Association's community wellbeing board, said "we need to do all we can" to shield people in care homes and those...

Gov. Cuomo, Bloomberg detail New York's contact tracing efforts

Our present actions will determine the future trajectory. After discussing the latest updates on the fight against the virus, 1010 WINS' Susan Richard asked...

FDA to authorize Remdesivir for emergency use

Nevertheless, it's thought it may have some general effects against MERS, SARS and other coronaviruses . Remdesivir is an experimental, broad spectrum anti...