World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is attending a news conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 3 July 2020. [Photo/Agencies] The World Health Organization says the COVID-19 pandemic could be ended within …
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This month, the US reported 5 million cases of coronavirus, and the domestic outbreak is already quietly close to 6 million. How did this unimaginable catastrophe get so far out of control? The sad truth, scientists say, is that we probably had no idea how widespread and pervasive COVID-19 infections …
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PHILO PHOTO: People are seen on a shopping street, amid the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, in Windsor, UK 5 August 2020. REUTERS / Toby Melville (Reuters) – The UK’s official COVID-19 daily death toll could be scrapped following an investigation into the UK Public Health’s method of toll counting, …
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People who have been seriously ill and treated in intensive care units can wait a few months to fully recover, regardless of their condition. However, with COVID-19, the evidence is mounting that some people who have had relatively mild symptoms at home may also have prolonged illness. Overwhelming fatigue, palpitations, …
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A patient in Florida has contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials. The Florida Department of Health said Friday that a case of the often deadly amoeba called Naegleria fowleri was detected in Hillsborough County. The parasite occurs naturally in fresh water and can be fatal when it …
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