About 800 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Kern County on Monday, continuing a dramatic increase in new case counts that started over the weekend. On Saturday, about 500 new cases were reported and on Sunday more than 700 new cases were reported. No new deaths have been announced …
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John Beigel’s problem was that not enough Covid-19 people died. Not that he wanted them to, of course. It’s just that, as dire as the pandemic has been, it hasn’t killed as many people as it seemed. And Beigel, a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, …
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In the race to develop a treatment for COVID-19, Gilead Sciences may have found a winner with remdesivir. In a study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Gilead, researchers found that the experimental drug inhibited the coronavirus in human lung cell cultures …
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“In my opinion, hydroxychloroquine should not be used in the hospital setting,” says Martin Landray, a physician and researcher at the Nuffield Population Health Department at the University of Oxford and one of the chief recovery officers. “Outside of the hospital setting, it would be reasonable to use it in …
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Millions of years An unknown common ancestor of today’s llamas, camels and alpacas underwent an unusual genetic mutation. This evolutionary occurrence gave llamas and their relatives a strange type of antibody that no other mammal has, which, surprisingly, could end up aiding in the fight against Covid-19. This Monday in …
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