Health

The first confirmed case of a mother passing the coronavirus to her unborn baby was reported in France, according to a case study published Tuesday. Click to enlarge UNTIL NEXT TIME French doctors said in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications that a 23-year-old woman was admitted to the Antoine Béclère …

Moderna’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 was shown to be safe and elicited immune responses in the 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, US researchers reported Tuesday. No study volunteer experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, …

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says four attendees at a July 4 party ended up contracting COVID-19, lower numbers than previously reported by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The party, which took place in Holtsville, saw 22% of attendees contract the virus. Earlier in the day, Cuomo’s office said 35% of attendees …

TOMPKINS COUNTY, NY – The Tompkins County Health Department announced ten new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, raising confirmed active infections in the county to double digits, a level not seen locally since June 16. . Five of the ten new cases are related to out-of-state travel and four are …

Initial data on a possible COVID-19 vaccine shows that it triggered an immune response in the 45 people tested, researchers announced Tuesday. Preliminary results of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, were viewed with caution as a significant step in rapidly developing a vaccine against a …