A new analysis of several studies in which steroid drugs were used to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients helped reduce patient mortality, due to preliminary evidence for the benefits of these drugs. In multiple studies involving a total of 1,700 patients, many corticosteroids – anti-inflammatory drugs that can dampen the …
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Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock arrived in Downing Street on September 2. Daniel Lil-Olivas / AFP / Getty Images UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced 500 500 million (6 665 million) for rapid Covid-19 testing and capacity building amid complaints from members of the public about “operational challenges”. Speaking …
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Two-thirds of the country’s largest school districts are starting online – with all the stress and hassle it brings to teachers, children and their families. But even where individual schooling is done, there are no easy answers. A week before school doors were to open, the country’s largest school district, …
Read More »Donald Trump would like to pause this campaign for a moment to tell you how good his brain is.
In a carefully manicured, four-day conference in which Donald Trump’s chief lieutenants hailed him as the embodiment of stability and JB Biden as the pieder-piper of race riots, the president always does the same: he accidentally disposed of his team’s message. Service of Nursing Personal Gruds. This week, it was …
Read More »The Novavax coronavirus vaccine is safe, giving an immune response
© Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Images Dr. Rhonda Flores looks at protein samples at the Novavax Labs in Gathersburg, Maryland on March 20, 2020, a lab developing a vaccine for Corovirus, Covid-19. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Images) Early-stage clinical trial results show that the …
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