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Editor’s Note: Find the latest news and guidance from COVID-19 at the Medscape Coronavirus Resource Center. A new lymphocyte count in people who come to the hospital with COVID-19 could help doctors identify those at highest risk for admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), new evidence suggests. Patients with …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “will no longer control” the coronavirus data collection system of hospitals across the country, a spokesman for the US Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday. night. The New York Times reported earlier Tuesday that the administration had ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC …

Schematic of a laser-illuminated nano-optical probe investigating a tungsten dyselenide-tensioned nanobubble (WSe2; green and yellow balls), a two-dimensional semiconductor. The only layer of WSe2 is sitting on a layer of boron nitride (blue and gray balls). Credit: Nicholas Borys / Montana State University Using sophisticated light microscopy techniques, Columbia engineers …

With coronavirus cases on the rise across the country, President Donald Trump has continued to cast doubt on health officials and his own administration’s response to the pandemic, prompting some of his fiercely loyal supporters to question not only the advice of experts, but also the existence of the virus. …

An investigational vaccine designed to protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was generally well tolerated and resulted in the production of both binding and neutralizing antibodies in healthy adult volunteers, according to interim results from a phase 1 trial published today. at New England Journal of Medicine. The experimental vaccine …