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According to a new study by European researchers, people with type A blood are at a much higher risk of developing severe COVID-19.
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By Victor Tangermann

Health experts and lawmakers are demanding a 9/11 Commission-scale investigation into the failed U.S. COVID-19 response so we can plan for future outbreaks.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, flushing the toilet could leave behind a cloud of aerosol droplets that have the potential to carry coronavirus particles.
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By Victor Tangermann

Michael Flor, who survived a record-setting 62-day hospital stay for the coronavirus, just got hit by a $1.1 million hospital bill.
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By Dan Robitzski

Leaked documents dated to earlier this week, obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Yahoo News.
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By Jon Christian

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections are on the rise in the Northeastern United States, in large part thanks to global warming.
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By Victor Tangermann

On a call with biotechnology executives, Dr. Anthony Fauci described the coronavirus pandemic as his worst nightmare as a health expert.
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By Dan Robitzski

Florida has seen a record resurgence in new COVID-19 cases, with new cases exceeding 1,000 for five days straight. Yet the state is reopening this week.
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By Victor Tangermann

At protests across the country, police have frequently been showing up without wearing their medical masks during a pandemic.
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By Dan Robitzski

Thousands of COVID-19 patients are reporting that they are experiencing symptoms including coughs, chest pain, and aching joins for months at a time.
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By Victor Tangermann

Sweden's unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus isn't paying off. Sweden's mortality rate is substantially higher than that for its neighbors.
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By Victor Tangermann

An open letter signed by hundreds of researchers today points out many glaring issues with a controversial hydroxychloroquine study.
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By Victor Tangermann

Moscow's virus-tracking app is extremely unreliable and is handing out thousands of arbitrary fines. Human rights groups called it an intrusion of privacy.
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By Victor Tangermann

The World Health Organization just confirmed that the Democratic Republic of Congo now has two unrelated Ebola outbreaks occurring simultaneously.
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By Dan Robitzski

The Tokyo Women's Medical University started livestreaming surgery in virtual reality as a COVID-19 safety measure that may make education more accessible.
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By Dan Robitzski

A group of monkeys in India just stole a bunch of blood samples taken from patients who tested positive for the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

One of the earliest examples of space travelers becoming ill was during the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, when astronaut Wally Schirra got a bad head cold.
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By Victor Tangermann

Medical historian John Barry says that the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially due to President Trump, has been utterly incoherent.
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By Dan Robitzski

Associate professor of biology Erin Bromage decided to start a blog about how to keep safe amidst a global pandemic, and why you shouldn't panic.
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By Victor Tangermann

There are a lot of caveats here, so don't get too excited, but new results for an experimental COVID vaccine look promising.
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By Jon Christian

Therapeutics firm Sorrento claims to have found the first ingredient for its "cocktail" of antibodies that could protect against the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new study by researchers suggests that the body builds a robust antiviral immune response after fighting the coronavirus. Good news for a vaccine.
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By Victor Tangermann

Two Rohingya refugees in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh have tested positive for the coronavirus, the BBC reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury.
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By Victor Tangermann

"This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan said on Thursday.
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By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have come up with an idea to help contain the number of new coronavirus infections: working 4 days, and then staying at home for 10.
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By Victor Tangermann

The clinic CityMD told 15,000 patients who took a COVID-19 test that they had built up an immunity against the disease, which is more than the test reveals.
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By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci argues that the country isn't ready to reopen, and that doing so will lead to a spike in new coronavirus cases and deaths.
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By Dan Robitzski

Wuhan, the Chinese city that was at the epicenter of the coronavirus, is planning to test all 11 million inhabitants, according to a state media report.
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By Victor Tangermann

A resurgence of coronavirus cases is starting to hit China, South Korea and Germany — just as governments are starting to loosen restrictions.
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By Victor Tangermann

While "immunity passports" have been thrown around as a possible way to gradually reopen society, a bioethics expert argues that it would be ill-advised.
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By Dan Robitzski

Trump has told his advisers that him wearing a mask would "send the wrong message," NBC News reports, arguing it'd be focusing on health not the reopening.
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By Victor Tangermann

After CDC scientists developed a comprehensive guide for how to safely re-open restaurants and public spaces, the White House buried it.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, researchers outline a new dominant strain of coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than the previously dominating one.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new COVID-19 test uses CRISPR molecules to hunt for the coronavirus. And while more testing is needed, it could cost as little as $6.
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By Dan Robitzski

DARPA developed a new test for COVID-19 that can spot an infection within 24 hours, even earlier than people start spreading the coronavirus to others.
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By Dan Robitzski

In an interview with National Geographic, Anthony Fauci reiterated that evidence suggests the coronavirus was not created in a lab in China.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to internal documents obtained by The New York Times, the CDC expects daily new coronavirus cases to surge from about 25,000 to 200,000.
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By Victor Tangermann

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Wednesday that all city and county residents can get a free COVID-19 test, with our without symptoms.
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By Victor Tangermann

Images show Chinese school children wearing adorable hats with two long flaps on either sides that ensure they're social distancing properly.
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By Victor Tangermann

South Korean infectious disease experts claim that reports of citizens being reinfected by the coronavirus were likely to based on flawed tests.
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By Victor Tangermann

Trump Reportedly Ignored Numerous Intel Warnings About COVID
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By Victor Tangermann

Indigeouns populations in Brazil are at a particularly high risk of the coronavirus pandemic, as they're left with little to no access to support.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials announced that there are no longer any patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, but they're concerned about a second outbreak.
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By Dan Robitzski

New Zealand says it's "eliminated" the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, claiming that for now the small number of new cases are easily managed.
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By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just added six new symptoms to its existing list of COVID-19 symptoms, which include things like fever, cough, and shortness of breath.
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By Victor Tangermann

The company behind brands Lysol and Dettol is urging customers not to ingest its cleaning supplies after Donald Trump's comments on Thursday.
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at private Beijing-based company Sinovac Biotech have developed an experimental COVID-19 vaccine that protected macaques from infection.
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By Victor Tangermann

Doctors are noticing mysterious blood clots in COVID-19 patients that are causing extremely low oxygen levels. But there are still countless unknowns.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a memo, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates wrote that the coronavirus pandemic "is like a world war, except in this case, we’re all on the same side."
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By Victor Tangermann

"COVID toes," mysterious blue or red discoloration in toes and sometimes fingers, could be another early symptom of the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a Washington Post interview, CDC director Robert Redfield said that a second wave of coronavirus during this winter's flu season could spell disaster.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to a major Paris hospital study, tobacco could be saving smokers from catching COVID-19. Researchers suggest it could be the nicotine.
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By Victor Tangermann

ccording to a new study, researchers were able to detect the presence of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater in Australia.
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By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers say that the coronavirus doesn't just attack lungs — it also assaults blood vessels throughout the body.
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By Jon Christian

During briefing, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom said "that a relatively small percentage of the populations may have been infected" by the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

Carnival, the company that had coronavirus outbreaks on several of its cruise ships, seeminly did too little to late to protect passengers.
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By Dan Robitzski

A report claims the number of  COVID-19 tests will have to"increase to 20 million tests per day by mid-summer to fully re-mobilize the economy" in the US.
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By Victor Tangermann

A neural network trained by MIT researchers found that reopening the economy right now would result in an "exponential explosion" of COVID-19 cases.
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By Victor Tangermann

Pastor and author Brandon Robertson recently got an antibody test for COVID-19. We caught up with him about the experience and his thoughts on the future.
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By Dan Robitzski

NY governor Andrew Cuomo said that all New Yorkers will be required to wear a mouth and nose covering in public when social distancing can't be maintained.
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By Victor Tangermann

A top Pentagon general said during a Tuesday briefing that the "weight of evidence" points towards the coronavirus having "natural" origins.
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By Victor Tangermann

Trump just declared that he would withhold all U.S. funding for the World Health Organization in the middle of a global pandemic.
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By Dan Robitzski

When he declared a national emergency on March 13, Trump made a lot of grand promises. One month later, most have been broken.
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By Dan Robitzski