Despite the urgency of beating COVID-19, health officials may delay the development of an effective vaccine. Authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere have yet to authorize an ethical charge investigation procedure called “trials with human challenge.” Challenge tests deliberately involve volunteers with the disease – which explains the official retention …
Read More »New U.S. Covid-19 cases jump as fears grow across campus spread
The number of new cases of coronavirus in the U.S. rose, but remained below 50,000 for the fourth day in a row, as some universities and schools moved classes online to prevent campus outbreaks. The U.S. reported more than 44,000 new cases of coronavirus Tuesday, sharply up from 35,112 the …
Read More »New U.S. Coronavirus cases slide to the lowest since late June
Some hopeful signs began to emerge when the US recorded the lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases in nearly eight weeks and hospitalizations continued to decline. But recent outbreaks in a number of schools and universities across the country have shown that catching the virus remains a challenge. The …
Read More »The new coronavirus is mutating, but that ‘may be a good thing’, says top expert
Increased mutation in the new coronavirus “could be a good thing”, said a top expert. Paul Tambyah, a former consultant at the National University of Singapore and president-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, said a mutation in coronavirus that has made the rounds in Europe, North America and …
Read More »Another 1918 Spanish flu warning for COVID-19: ‘Survival does not mean people fully recover’
There are still so many that we do not know. The coronavirus of 2020 and Spanish flu of 1918 are two highly contagious respiratory diseases that spread across the world for months, and did not miss vaccines when they first occurred. People could not understand why they influenced some people …
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