New research suggests that the antibodies that the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may last only a few months in people with mild illnesses, but that doesn’t mean that protection has also disappeared or that it won’t be possible to develop an effective vaccine. “Infection with this …
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Growing COVID-19 outbreaks in various states are depleting testing capacity across the country as people wait several days or even weeks to recover their results, causing another setback to the U.S. response to the pandemic. of months. Long response times are undermining the fight against the coronavirus, experts say, making …
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LONDON, England – Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus vaccine was shown in an initial trial to elicit a protective immune response in hundreds of people who received the vaccine. British researchers began testing the vaccine in April on about 1,000 people, half of whom received …
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Aerosol-based treatment could dramatically reduce the number of new coronavirus patients dying from the disease or requiring intensive care, according to preliminary results published Monday by a British biotech firm. 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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DETROIT – What is the correct way to wear a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19)? Many people wear it under the nose, but does that frustrate the purpose of wearing a mask? While the masks protect the COVID-19 user to some degree, their primary purpose is …
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