London. File photo: This picture taken on September 9, 2020 shows a test tube labeled with the word vaccine in front of the AstraZeneca logo. Ritter / Dado Ruvik / Illustration / File photo Reported in the last part of last month, but data published in full in The Lancet …
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TOKYO (AP) – A new coronavirus infection in Japan hit a record high on Thursday, urging the prime minister to exercise maximum caution but stop calling for a travel or business ban. The Ministry of Health reported 2,179 new cases, the first time more than 2,000 cases have been reported …
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American Airlines and British Airways will conduct free COVID-19 tests. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Agency France-Press / Getty Images American Airlines AAL, + 9.97% And British Airways IAG, + 48.4848% U.S. And the U.K. In an effort to persuade governments to start a coronavirus test trial the test could resume international …
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BISMARK, ND (AP) – Like many medical personnel around the world, Fargo Emergency Room nurse Adam Johnson will not be spared the horrific reality of a coronavirus epidemic. It follows him everywhere: at work, where people die every shift; In the grocery store, where people railway against the need for …
Read More »The scientists poured cold water on a potentially complex resemblance between COVID-19 and the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’.
Historians and health professionals say that the “cytokine storm” was a common feature of the 1918 influenza. But how big of a potentially fatal immune response do coronavirus epidemics play? About 500 million people, or a third of the world’s population, became infected with the Spanish flu in 1918. About …
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