“Long-haulers” are no longer just a job description for truckers. This term now refers to the increasing number of people who carried Covid-19 and had symptoms for more than 100 days – even though tests did not leave any virus in the body. Covid-19 “long-haulers” continue to struggle with symptomatic …
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A doctor who checks comatose COVID-19 patients for signs of a stroke, instead stumbles upon a new indication of how the virus can damage the lungs – thanks to a test that used small air bubbles and a robot. Dr. Alexandra Reynolds, a neurologist at New York’s Mount Sinai Health …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to introduce regular, population-based testing for COVID-19 so that it can suppress the spread of the virus and reduce restrictions that have plagued its economy without triggering a second wave in any of the least affected countries in the world. A warning sign with hygiene …
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Other reports rolled in – a death in France, a cluster in Italy – and in the US, the CDC put together what was observed of the unusual condition and asked doctors to report cases that were consistent with departments of state health. Coming up with a definition of the …
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BERLIN (AP) – A German icebreaker accompanying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. Expedition leader Markus Rex said on Wednesday that the RV Polarstern could reach the geographic North Pole …
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