President Trump is expected to announce a new $ 750 million deal with Abbott Laboratories for rapid COVID-19 tests at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, according to a senior White House official. Under the agreement, the Trump administration would buy 150 million of the tests, which would take just …
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Health leaders from Santa Clara County on Wednesday unveiled recent changes to the CDC’s coronavirus guidelines that relaxed test testing recommendations for asymptomatic individuals at a news conference. The changes, which appeared on the CDC’s website on Monday, say that people who have been in close contact with a COVID-19 …
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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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Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story – health care workers were completely immersed in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deep that brain damage seemed difficult. When COVID-19 (and testing) spread around the world, there were reports of “the brain …
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LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) – About 1,500 volunteers equipped with face masks, hand sanitizer and gadget tracking attended an indoor concert in Germany on Saturday as part of a study to simulate how the novel coronavirus spreads in large gatherings. As part of the so-called Restart19 study, researchers from the University …
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