TThe Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has ended. Thursday was 42 days since the last person with Ebola was discharged, double the maximum time it takes for symptoms to appear. Almost two years of hard work and community leadership in the DRC have paid …
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TThe sheer speed with which Covid-19 spread across the world, along with the novel nature of the virus, has meant that scientists and technicians have been playing a catch-up game. But our knowledge, although incomplete, is now much larger than it was at the beginning of the outbreak, and medical …
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Officials in the US states. USA They have reacted with alarm to the Trump administration’s plan to end federal support for some Covid-19 test sites, warning that it could cause the further spread of a disease that is already emerging and calling the move “irresponsible.” The White House confirmed Wednesday …
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As 1 million new cases of coronavirus are confirmed worldwide per week, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that hospitals are facing a shortage of oxygen concentrators needed to support the breathing of patients with Covid- 19 suffering from respiratory distress. “Many countries are now experiencing difficulties obtaining oxygen concentrators,” …
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As Kentucky voters wait to see which Democrat will challenge Mitch McConnell this fall, Americans are quickly realizing that there is a new normal for elections during the pandemic: We are not going to meet the winner on Election Night. In recent months, the US states. USA They have seen …
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