Medications for high blood pressure could improve survival rates for people suffering from COVID-19 and reduce the severity of infection, according to new research from a team of scientists at the University of East Anglia in the UK and published Monday in the Journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports, a bilingual peer-reviewed …
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Public health officials have unveiled 10 further Auckland bus journeys taken by two people who later tested positive for Covid-19 – and are now racing to track down seven passengers who may have been exposed. The two cases involved a number of other buses while they were infected, as well …
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FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn looks forward to when President Donald Trump announces that the Food and Drug Administration is issuing an emergency permit for blood plasma as a treatment for coronavirus during a press conference at the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House on August 23, 2020 …
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Blood pressure medicine improves the survival rates of Covid-19 in people with hypertension, according to research that contradicts earlier fears that the pills may make the disease worse. The risk of critical illness or death of Covid for people with high blood pressure was found to be significantly lower when …
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The coronavirus of 2020 and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 have many differences and share many similarities, but they also combine at one point: their impact on the economy and employment, and in particular, how richer people had better opportunities to survive their respective pandemics. Both pandemics involve new, …
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