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(CNN)The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.

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Africa has held off the worst of the coronavirus. Researchers are working to figure out how.

Sun, 2020-09-27 09:37 — mike kraft

Africa has held off the worst of the coronavirus. Researchers are working to figure out how. The reasons are still something of a mystery, but scientists said the success of many African countries offers crucial lessons. NBC News

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RECOMENDATIONS: Ebola Response Priorities in the Time of Covid-19

Fri, 2020-09-25 14:01 — mike kraft

Ebola Response Priorities in the Time of Covid-19 | NEJM Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Ebola Response Priorities in the Time of Covid-19 New England Journal of Medicine

On April 10, 2020, a total of 53 days after the last patient with Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been isolated and more than 23 months since the start of the 10th EVD outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a new confirmed case was reported in the Beni health zone. This case, and the six that followed, brought the total to 3462 cases — the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.

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Are people to be left to die?' Vaccine pleas fill UN summit

Thu, 2020-09-24 12:53 — mike kraft

'Are people to be left to die?' Vaccine pleas fill UN summit JOHANNESBURG (AP) — If the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II, what will be born from the global crisis of COVID-19? Many world leaders at this week’s virtual U.N.... AP NEWS

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Late-stage study of first single-shot vaccine begins in US

Wed, 2020-09-23 10:01 — mike kraft

Late-stage study of first single-shot vaccine begins in US Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world's... AP NEWS

Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus.

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AstraZeneca, Under Fire for Vaccine Safety, Released Trial Blueprints

Tue, 2020-09-22 11:23 — mike kraft

AstraZeneca revealed details of its large coronavirus vaccine trials on Saturday, the third in a wave of rare disclosures by drug companies under pressure to be more transparent about how they are testing products that are the world’s best hope for ending the pandemic.

Polls are finding Americans increasingly wary of accepting a coronavirus vaccine. And scientists inside and outside the government are worried that regulators, pressured by the president for results before Election Day on Nov. 3, might release an unproven or unsafe vaccine.

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Drug shows promise in 1st largely minority COVID-19 study

Fri, 2020-09-18 17:34 — mike kraft

Drug shows promise in 1st largely minority COVID-19 study A drug company said Friday that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the first large study that... AP NEWS

A drug company said Friday that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the first large study that primarily enrolled Hispanics and Blacks.

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