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Jeffrey Smith, the man whose wife sued a hospital to force it to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin and kicked off a messy legal fight, recently died.
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Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.
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Pharmaceutical company Merck claims its new COVID-19 pill called molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalization and even death by half.
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Pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky says that most the antivaxxer patients he recently vented about have since died of their coronavirus infections.
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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus extended the booster shot moratorium and called out rich countries for hoarding their COVID-19 vaccines.
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The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.
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Astrobiologist Paul Davies warns that any alien world capable of supporting extraterrestrial life would probably be teeming with viruses as well.
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the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.
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Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells
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mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.
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A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.
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Harvard researchers have discovered a connection between exposure to wildfire smoke with roughly 20,000 infections and 750 deaths due to COVID-19.
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Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.
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Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.
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A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.
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Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.
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The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.
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Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.
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A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.
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COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.
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New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought
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A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective
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Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.
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As COVID-19 vaccine supply outweights domestic demand in the US, travelers are coming to the country to grab some of the extras.
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Researchers have found a new novel canine coronavirus discovered in a child who was hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia two years ago.
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Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.
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The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.
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While millions of people are offering up their arm to get a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, labs around the world are already working on the next generation.
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A week after spreading dangerous medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, Joe Rogan kind of dialed it back and clarified his statement.
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A medical journal retracted a paper that claimed "current smoking was not associated with adverse outcome" in COVID-19 patients due to conflict of interest.
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According to Eran Segal, scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Israel has "pretty much eradicated COVID-19 from Israel, at least for the time being."
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.
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The FDA and CDC have called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout to further investigate blood clot risk.
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Despite widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, people in the US are still trying to track down drugs that weren't designed to treat COVID symptoms.
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A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.
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Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.
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Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.
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The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.
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According to a new study by the CDC, those who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer no longer carry the virus.
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President Joe Biden has announced that his administration has distributed 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in just 58 days.
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Preliminary research suggests that coronavirus vaccines might also serve as a treatment for persistent long-hauler symptoms.
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The marketing agency ICF Next promised employees a coronavirus vaccine. Instead, it was a surprise test on cybersecurity practices.
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Pfizer executives recently announced that they're looking into raising the price of the coroanvirus vaccine once the worst of the pandemic is over.
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A massive study found that walking speed seemed to help predict COVID disease severity and deaths, regardless of related factors like obesity.
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As new data on how coronavirus vaccines protect against different variants emerges, the South African strain seems particularly troubling.
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A Kroger clinic in Virginia accidentally gave some people injections of air instead of the coronavirus vaccines they thought they were getting.
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As the vaccine rollout continues, a smaller proportion of people who catch the coronavirus are being sent to the hospital.
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There are several major coronavirus variants spreading throughout the world. Here's what you should know about the most important ones.
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Given a choice, a surprising number of people prefer the convenience of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the increased effectiveness of the others.
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According to a new survey, 69 percent of Americans either want or have at least partially received a coronavirus vaccine, signalling growing optimism.
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President Biden announced that the US will likely have enough coronavirus vaccines to inoculate every adult in the country by the end of May.
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A study shows that the coronavirus can directly attack and kill heart cells, potentially settling a longstanding scientific debate.
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The governors of both Texas and Mississippi announced they will be lifting both states' mask mandates and rolling back COVID-19 health mandates.
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The Archdiocese of New Orleans just issued a dangerous statement calling the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine "morally compromised."
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Preliminary data suggests that the coronavirus variant P.1 is capable of reinfecting people who already survived COVID-19.
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New studies show that people who already recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in their system get "robust" protection from a single Pfizer dose.
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The heart failure drug ivabradine seems to treat the long-hauler symptoms that can last for months after a coronavirus infection.
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When scientists took a closer look at a baby with COVID-19, they found that the kid caught a previously-undiscovered variant and had a massive viral load.
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According to the FDA, the single-dose coronavirus vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson provides strong protection against severe cases of COVID-19.
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A facility that bottles the AstraZeneca coronavirus into glass vials was temporarily on lockdown today after a suspicious package arrived.
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Two Florida women in their 20s reportedly dressed up as "grannies" to get the COVID-19 vaccine early, according to local Orlando news station WFTV.
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New coronavirus infections in the United States and around the world dropped by a significant number over the previous week.
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New York just sued Amazon over its failure to protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus and for punishing anyone who spoke out.
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Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.
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