Florida broke the national record on Sunday for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the start of the pandemic, adding more than 15,000 cases. According to statistics from the state Department of Health, 15,299 people tested positive, for a total of 269,811 cases, and …
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A 30-year-old Texas man died of the new coronavirus after attending a “COVID-19” party hosted by an infected person, a doctor revealed, underscoring the risk for younger people. Jane Appleby, medical director at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, said the man thought the virus was a hoax, even though it …
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A new guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 40 percent of people infected with COVID-19 are asymptomatic and the likelihood of transmission from people without symptoms is 75 percent. In an updated guide also reported by CNN, the agency expanded its “best current estimate” based …
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Johnson & Johnson, like all drug makers in the COVID-19 vaccine race, hopes to muster enough manufacturing capacity to rapidly scale production of its vaccine. Now, for a sum of nearly half a trillion dollars, J&J is ready to put his money where his mouth is. J&J and Maryland-based CDMO …
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Dozens of media companies have received coronavirus relief loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in recent months, according to data released Monday by the Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department. The loan program, established by Congress in late March to boost small businesses during the pandemic, has distributed …
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