The death toll in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never happened. That is at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more than the …
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New experimental coronavirus vaccine prevented serious disease in mice after two doses of jab improved its antibody levels 90-fold Researchers genetically modified vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which causes a mild disease in livestock, is becoming a vaccine The team extracted a gene from VSV and inserted the spike protein from …
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Obese or very overweight increases the risk of Covid-19 death, according to Public Health England. The UK government believes that 63% of adults are above what would be considered a healthy weight. The new measures include a 9-hour ban on junk food ads, tools to help people lose weight and …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Democrats of Congress of not negotiating a US coronavirus aid package for refusing to engage in “ridiculous” unrelated spending requests the pandemic. Trump’s remarks came after top Republican and Democratic negotiators blamed a five-day patch deal in relief legislation talks. Treasury …
Read More »Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has been waiting for recent news that Russia has developed a vaccine, and is ready to start inoculating people with it. “We have …
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