CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to create a strain of the new coronavirus that could be used in human challenge tests of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would vaccinate and then deliberately infect with the virus, Reuters has learned. FILE PHOTO: …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence that coronavirus was spread through food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain. PHOTO PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks …
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(Reuters) – US drug developer Novavax Inc said on Friday that the UK would buy 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled “Vaccine COVID-19” and a medical syringe in this illustration April 10, 2020. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / …
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OAKLAND, Caliph. (Reuters) – North Dakota, Wyoming and Alabama are the latest U.S. states to launch apps to warn users about potential exposure to the new coronavirus by following their conversations, state officials told Reuters on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: The 1919 mobile app, which North Dakota and South Dakota officials …
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WELLINGTON / BEIJING (Reuters) – China this week reported several cases of frozen food packaging infected with the novel coronavirus, while New Zealand said it was investigating the possibility that its latest COVID-19 cases could be recovered after imported cargo. PHILO PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel …
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