IOWA CITY, Iowa: The first confirmed coronavirus outbreak at an Iowa meatpacking plant was far more serious than previously known, with more than twice as many workers infected as the state Department of Public Health told the public, as recently released records show. The department announced at a press conference …
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(Reuters) – Texas on Wednesday set one-day records for increases in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the state, forcing a county to store bodies in refrigerated trucks and asking a senior health official to call to be found. stay home. orders. Trackers contacting the Houston Department of Health monitor the …
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FILE PHOTO: Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) attends a press conference on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 3, 2019 REUTERS / Denis Balibouse GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – Researchers are making “good …
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Sick Americans face long waits for coronavirus test results with labs overwhelmed by the massive increase in infections across the country, medical test executives say. Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, two of the nation’s largest clinical laboratory operators, say they cannot add testing capacity fast enough to keep up with the …
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The immune system of people recovering from mild episodes of COVID-19 produces antibodies that can last only a few months, but that doesn’t mean protection is gone or an effective vaccine is not possible, according to new research. Antibodies are proteins that white blood cells called B cells make to …
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