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Washington Post: Russian bounties to Taliban fighters believed to result in deaths of US troops, intelligence assessments show
(CNN)Russian bounties offered to Taliban militants in Afghanistan to kill US or UK troops there are believed to have resulted in the deaths of multiple US troops, the Washington Post reported Sunday,…
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US coronavirus update: Latest news on cases, deaths and reopenings
Patients being treated for coronavirus in California and Washington states spent an average of 10 days in hospital, researchers reported Wednesday.
Few studies have looked at how long virus patients…
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US coronavirus update: Latest news on cases, deaths and reopenings
Dr. Megan Ranney spent last week testifying about the coronavirus before Congress.
After Ranney took to Twitter on Sunday with a series of posts on the topic that many found extremely helpful and in…
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US coronavirus update: Latest news on cases, deaths and reopenings
The Trump administration is promising to buy 100 million testing swabs and vials by the end of the year and distribute them to states as part of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, acco…
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US coronavirus update: Latest on cases, deaths and reopening
A new genetic analysis of the virus that causes Covid-19 taken from more than 7,600 patients around the world shows the virus has been circulating in people since late last year, and must have spread extremely quickly after the first infection.
Researchers i…
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US coronavirus update: Latest on cases, deaths, the lockdown, and more
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said on Fox this weekend that having a coronavirus vaccine by January is possible on paper but will require the proper execution.
Birx was asked whether it was realistic to have a vaccine by…
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Coronavirus has killed nearly 52,000 people in the US, over a quarter of the world’s deaths
Coronavirus has killed nearly 52,000 people in the US, over a quarter of the world’s deaths
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The earliest known US virus-related fatalities have been confirmed in California as more deaths are investigated
(CNN)Two coronavirus-related deaths confirmed in Northern California’s Santa Clara County from early February are the earliest known deaths from the virus in the US. The deaths were from February 6 and February 17 — up to three weeks before the first known U…
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US coronavirus update: Latest on cases, deaths, the lockdown, and more
Data suggests that people have dramatically reduced their time in public places and are largely staying at home but easing social distancing restrictions could change the forecast, according to researchers.
Lauren Ancel Meyers, who is leading researchers at…
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