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Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday he should have more aggressively pushed the federal government to flood communities where the coronavirus was starting to spread with …
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While the United States flounders in its response to the coronavirus, another nation — one within our own borders — is faring much better. With a mask mandate in place …
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With the glimmer of promising data from two Covid-19 vaccines, the beginning of the end of the pandemic may be in sight, some experts say — but they warn that …
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The success of a second vaccine against Covid-19 means the world is a big step closer to curbing the coronavirus pandemic. Moderna, joined by U.S. government scientists, announced Monday that …
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Moderna’s vaccine against Covid-19 is strongly effective, the company said Monday, building excitement about the potential of controlling the global pandemic. The news comes exactly a week after results from …
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A daily pill combining four cholesterol and blood pressure medicines taken with low-dose aspirin cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and heart-related deaths by nearly one-third in a large …
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A pill ordinarily prescribed to treat obsessive compulsive or anxiety disorder prevented symptoms of nonhospitalized Covid-19 patients from worsening compared to placebo, a small randomized controlled trial concludes, suggesting the …
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Should patients who volunteer to be in Covid-19 vaccine studies, but who are assigned to get placebo, be offered the vaccine? As companies and regulators raced to start clinical trials …
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The numbers have become both horrifying and numbing — and there is no end in sight. The consensus among major Covid-19 modelers is that we could see 20,000 to 25,000 …
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