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The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting inequalities in wealth and health care access around the world — and in Brazil, the crisis has reached the poverty-stricken and densely-populated favelas.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new guidance on its website that estimates that about a third of coronavirus infections are asymptomatic.
The agency also says its best estimate is that 0.4% of people who show symptoms and have Covid…
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The Arab country of Jordan will impose a nationwide curfew for three days as Covid-19 cases increase, Minister of State for Media Affairs Amjad Adaileh said on Wednesday.
The curfew starts midnight Thursday local time and ends midnight Sunday. It coincides w…
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Doctors warned today that inflammation is causing the severe effects of Covid-19 disease in patients, and said reducing those effects may be key to helping people get better.
Teams across the US are testing a variety of immune-modulating drugs often prescrib…
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Volunteers who received Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine had positive early results, according to the biotech company, which partnered with the National Institutes of Health to develop the vaccine.
If future studies go well, the company’s vaccine could be availabl…
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In some countries, the coronavirus is still peaking, with authorities scrambling to respond to spikes in cases and deaths. In others, people are returning to normal life. Here’s what the pandemic looks like around the world.
In the US, multiple protests are …
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It might be necessary to start manufacturing coronavirus vaccines even before they have been fully tested to see if they can protect people from infection, said Richard Hatchett, the CEO of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
CEPI is a no…
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Asia may have been right about coronavirus and face masks, and the rest of the world is coming around
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(CNN)Tens of millions of people around the world have suddenly found themselves under various forms of lockdown as governments scrambled to impose new coronavirus-related restrictions over the past 24 hours.
But with different governments taking different ap…
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Viruses spread more easily in cold weather than hot, which is why winter is peak influenza season.
While it has yet to be seen whether the coronavirus will recede as temperatures increase in the northern hemisphere (and cases in tropical Singapore and south…
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