EU leaders have reached a pre-dawn agreement on a massive post-pandemic economic recovery plan. The Australian state of Victoria reported 374 new cases of coronavirus and three deaths on Tuesday as it prepares to make the use of masks mandatory. Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) sounded the alarm Monday over the spread of COVID-19 in Africa, warning that increasing numbers in South Africa could be a “precursor” to outbreaks across the continent. “I am very concerned at the moment that we are beginning to see an acceleration of the disease …
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Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and a painful headache when her parents found her numb in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors finally diagnosed the then-five-year-old Sudbury, Massachusetts resident with eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a rare but serious mosquito-borne virus that causes brain inflammation. …
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Scientists at Oxford University have said that their experimental coronavirus vaccine was shown in an initial trial to elicit a protective immune response in hundreds of people who received the vaccine. Called AZD1222 and developed by AstraZeneca and scientists at the University of Oxford in the UK, the vaccine did …
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Aerosol-based drug treatment could dramatically reduce the number of new coronavirus patients dying from the disease or requiring intensive care, according to preliminary results published by a British biotech company. In a randomized trial of 100 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those who received an inhaled formula of the protein interferon …
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