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KANSAS CITY, Mo. For 30 days, Kansas doctor Michael Waxman took a daily dose of hydroxychloroquine. Or maybe, that he just. Maybe those pills were nothing more than a placebo. He will not know until the end of a national clinical trial examining whether hydroxychloroquine – the drug that remains …

New Zealand marked 100 days on Sunday because it could effectively eliminate the spread of coronavirus. The South Pacific nation suppressed the spread of the virus through the implementation of a strict lockdown – closing borders for foreign nationals – after only 100 people tested positive in March. In the …

The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 727,000 people worldwide. More than 19.5 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are …

Now, just four months later, life in Italy, country president Mike Pence once said “no one wanted to look like”, is almost back to normal, despite sporadic spikes in cases attributed to migrants arriving in the country as living in narrow quarters. The death toll has leveled at just 35,000, …

New Zealand marked 100 days on Sunday because it could effectively eliminate the spread of coronavirus. The South Pacific nation suppressed the spread of the virus through the implementation of a strict lockdown – closing borders for foreign nationals – after only 100 people tested positive in March. In the …