South Korean officials said Monday that a North Korean defector who came south in 2017 had returned north. The New York Times reported that the 24-year-old unidentified man, referred to only by his last name, Kim, had crossed a strait into the northern part of Ganghwa Island, the same area …
Read More »Virus vaccine final tested on thousands of volunteers – NBC Chicago
The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine study began Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers who helped test vaccines created by the US government, one of several candidates in the final stretch of the world race. of vaccines. There is still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed by the …
Read More »St. Louis County will strengthen the limits of bars, crowds; City to close clubs defying rules
Updated at 5:25 pm on July 27 with details of plans to close some bars in St. Louis Alarmed by a growing number of coronavirus cases, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson announced new actions on Monday to stem the rapid spread of the …
Read More »Yale epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine works against COVID-19, so use it and stop politicizing it
A professor of epidemiology at Yale University wrote for Newsweek that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for patients in the early stages of a COVID-19 infection and urged medical professionals not to let the policy or peer pressure prevent them from using it to save lives. Hydroxychloroquine, a medicine that …
Read More »Dogs trained to detect COVID infections did so with 94% accuracy in a recent study
A recent study found that dogs trained to detect coronavirus infections did so with 94% accuracy, and the researchers hope the method can be implemented soon to prevent future outbreaks at mass gatherings. In the study, published by BMC Infectious Diseases and led by the University of Veterinary Medicine in …
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