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“We are getting surprises all the time,” said Dr. Conly. “This article seems interesting to me, but I have a lot of time left to get into a line of credibility, in my opinion.” Dr. George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco, was equally …

The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy is banning pharmacists, licensed drug dealers, and medical institutions from prescribing the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent the new coronavirus. The state board of pharmacies said in a memo that the rule would go into effect on Thursday and generally prohibits …

Particles of a coronavirus, seen under a transmission electron microscope.Credit: AMI Images / Science Photo Library Virologists are debating whether to establish a system for naming virus species later this year. Some researchers say that the current way viruses are named is disorganized and that there is an urgent need …

Credit: ESA / GCP / UPV / EHU Bilbao A mysteriously long and thin cloud has appeared again over the 20 km high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. A recurring feature, the cloud is made up of water ice, but despite appearances, it is not a plume linked to volcanic …

The new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 667,000 people worldwide. More than 17 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers are believed …