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(iStock) Blacks in Louisiana account for a disproportionately high share of confirmed new coronavirus cases, corresponding to a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths, according to a report released on Friday morning by the Louisiana Public Affairs Research Council. While this disparity was previously suspected, new data released by the state …

A woman passes by a market in Portland’s Old Port last week. Derek Davis Staff Photo Buy this photo Maine reported 38 additional cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the highest daily total in two weeks, and one new death. The state has now tracked 3,636 confirmed and probable cases since …

Joan Murray had been at home with Covid-19 for about a week when she had problems. She had a 103-degree fever and chills that sent chills down her spine. Her oxygen levels were dropping, and the tightness in her chest felt “like someone had tied my lungs with a rope.” …

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia on Friday urged some four million people, including Barcelona residents, to stay home, in a major tightening of their response to an increase in coronavirus cases. People sit inside a bar, after the regional authorities of Catalonia and the city council announced restrictions to contain the …

These early results showed that the vaccine worked to trigger an immune response with mild side effects: fatigue, chills, headache, muscle pain, pain at the injection site. But the vaccine will still have to pass a large Phase 3 trial, expected to begin later this month, before regulators consider whether …