Health

The concept behind a home kit is simple and is similar to how doctors quickly detect strep throat and flu: A paper strip could swab a saliva as a nasal sample and return a positive or negative result within 15 minutes. Otherwise, their children could swap and find out if …

Covid-19 will “forever remain in human form” in one form or another, “predicted a leading British scientist, who advocates regular vaccinations of the population against the deadly disease. The inaccurate optimism forecast was produced by Sir Mark Walport, a member of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group (SAGE), on Saturday. …

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The lawyer for one of the four ex-Minneapolis police officers accused of killing 25 Floyd in George Floyd said the victim ‘killed himself’, pointing to body cameras of the arrest, as well as toxicological reports that he said Floyd tripled the amount of fentanyl in his system. Attorney Earl Gray, …

article PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona has seen a 20% increase in deaths in the first seven months of this year – and not all of them are directly linked to the coronavirus. Public health experts say it will take months to determine what the death rate is. Possible explanations include …