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Two New Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Reported on Friday, June 5th

The spokeswoman added: The average age of all of our confirmed positive cases is 61 and the age range of all of our positive cases is from 18 to 101 years. The...

Engel Debates Democratic Primary Challengers in New York's 16th Congressional District

Bowman is reportedly supported by Justice Democrats , an organization that assisted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her victory of Joe Crowley two years ago. E...

BTS and Big Hit Donate One Million Dollars to Black Lives Matter

The rolling, global protests reflect rising anger over police treatment of ethnic minorities, sparked by the May 25 killing of Mr George Floyd in Minneapolis ...

Covid-19: Lancet retracts study on hydroxychloroquine that flagged drug’s risks

The New England Journal of Medicine today put out a thick paragraph retracting their article called "Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in...

India overtakes Italy as sixth worst hit country

But experts said the country is still nowhere near its peak and doctors fear what will happen once the imminent monsoon season hits. Though the count of recov...

Hancock County now has 6 'active' COVID-19 cases

The number of new cases has dropped substantially in recent weeks, Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine has said . Of total deaths, 4,077, or 69.2 p...

Covid 19 coronavirus: WHO changes advice on wearing masks

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) on Friday released guidelines on the use of masks as controversy swirls in some countries due to political leaders' rema...

Trump, Twitter feud raises questions about censorship, free speech

Amid the ongoing spat between U.S. president Donald Trump and Twitter after the latter flagged a post by the American president on the ongoing protests ...

In first COVID-19 research scandal, Lancet retracts major hydroxychloroquine paper

Anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine was used by many countries to treat patients who are tested positive for COVID-19. Both The Lancet and the equally p...

125 new cases in Douglas County, new death in Pott. County

That brings the total cases in the county to 12. The center also has the second highest number of confirmed cases in the state, behind a nursing home in El Paso...

Fabric masks need 3 layers to best curb coronavirus spread

However, the United Nations health body warns that masks are not a replacement for physical distancing, hand hygiene and other public health measures, and they ...

UK Halts Trial Of "Useless" Anti-Malaria Drug In COVID-19 Patients

Bowser said whether or not there is a spike of cases as a result of protests, DC will still need to "accommodate anyone who gets sick". Hydroxychloroquine ...

Mail-in primary enters last days

Because Nevada has a closed primary and county commissioners are a partisan office, Douglas County's large Republican majority determines the outcome of that ...

Coronavirus patients with high blood pressure twice as likely to die

Hospitals in the U.S. have reported that as many as 40 percent of their coronavirus patients are young people, in the 40s, 50s, even 20s and 30s. Patients w...

Coronavirus: Ibuprofen tested as a possible treatment for Covid-19

King's College of London is sponsoring the study in collaboration with Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Can it be handy? 'The current literature does n...

President Bush: Floyd Protests Call to Examine Nation's Failures

Nairobi A group of demonstrators yesterday marched and brief sit-in outside the embassy in Nairobi. He told reporters afterwards that he "thanked" the protest...

Islanders MUST Wear Face Coverings On Public Transport Soon, Says Government

Britons have been told to wear a face covering when they will be in contact with people outside of their household in a confined space. The transport minister...

Masks and social distancing work, analysis finds

Eye protection, which people perhaps tend to think about less than nose and mouth protection, may also provide additional benefits in both community and health...

Fauci Feels 'Cautiously Optimistic' Over Moderna's Vaccine with Early Positive Results

Jerome Kim of the IVI, a Seoul-based worldwide nonprofit organization dedicated to vaccine research, said in a signing ceremony held Thursday morning at Seoul N...

AstraZeneca Aims at Two Billion Doses With New Covid-19 Vaccine Deals

The US Advanced Biomedical Research and Development Authority. The US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a part of the Department of Heal...

Lancet Retracts Study Claiming Hydroxychloroquine ‘Increased Risk of Death’

Todd Lee of the MUHC, one of the study's lead authors. "There are other really important questions that still need answering with regard to this drug or oth...

Gilead shares surge on report of drug's success on COVID-19

Gilead, however, cautioned that "the totality of the data need to be analyzed in order to draw any conclusions from the trial ", in an emailed response to Reu...

Hydroxychloroquine doesn't prevent Covid-19 infection if exposed

The US Food and Drug Administration cautioned in late April against the use of hydroxychloroquine in patients with heart disease due to an increased risk of u...

No new COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday

The new cases include a woman in her 30s and man in his 40s. The first patient is a 50-year-old man. In Miami County, there have been 362 positive cases wit...

Coronavirus: Swedish disease expert admits Covid-19 mistakes

Still, authorities in Sweden, including Tegnell, have been criticised - and some have apologised - for failing to protect the country's elderly and nursing home...

Hatfield Mcdonald's: Reopens for Drive Thru

It has put safety measures in place including Perspex screens, face coverings, gloves and social distancing measures. The McDonald's at Stevenage Leisure Pa...

Mayor: NYC has taken 'step forward' in restoring order

Mayor Bill de Blasio had doubled down on a citywide curfew , moving it up from 11 p.m. the night before, but rejected urging from President Donald Trump and ...

CDC Provides Guidance on COVID-19 Antibody Testing

It's not detected. I don't have the antibody. "Specificity means is it specific to COVID-19, or does it have the potential to cross react to other coronavirus...

UK COVID-19 death toll surpasses 50,000 - Reuters tally

The Office for National Statistics said that in England and Wales alone, 43,837 people died from Covid-19 up to 22 May, an increase of 2,589 on the previous we...

Proposed Covid-19 vaccine: United States biotech firm starts second phase of tests

Some 2,000 people will participate in the trial, which will be conducted with the support of the Health Ministry, Unifesp said. A few hundred volunteers will be...

After `temporary pause`, World Health Organization to resume hydroxychloroquine trials

The study said it had failed to find any benefit of HCQ or CQ (chloroquine, which too is anti-malarial) in Covid treatment. Hydroxychloroquine and a similar...

44 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Reno County, 43 recovered

The department has begun thorough contact tracing on the individuals. Two new cases of the virus have been confirmed at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Faci...

Sweden's State Epidemiologist Self-Critical, Admits More Action Against COVID-19 Was Needed

Sweden has stood out among European nations and the world for the way it has handled the pandemic, not shutting down the country or the economy like other natio...

COVID-19 rates in province stay low as new cases discovered

By maintaining two metres between people, not sharing food, drinks and serving spoons, and choosing to stay outside, people can socialize in a more safe and hea...

Trump to move Republican National Convention out of North Carolina

Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) had been demanding that the convention be allowed to move forward with a full crowd and no face coverings ...