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Levels of an antibody found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply two to three months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study, raising questions…
The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours. The UN…
A northeastern Siberian town is likely to have set a record for the highest temperature documented in the Arctic Circle, with a reading of 100.4 degrees recorded Saturday in Verkhoyansk,…
What’s all this talk about a second wave of U.S. coronavirus cases? In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t…
A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure…
The NYS Dept of Health released the long-awaited guidelines for allowing family and support members to visit patients in hospitals. Although the limitations for such visits were lifted several weeks…
Signs of hope are starting to show in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, but it added that countries must continue to…
U.S. officials said Tuesday they expect health insurance companies will cover vaccines for COVID-19 without charging copays, once those vaccines are developed and become available. At a briefing for reporters,…
People under 20 are around half as susceptible to COVID-19 as people aged 20 or above, according to research published on Tuesday, and clinical symptoms of the pandemic disease appear…
Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A cheap, widely available steroid called dexamethasone reduced deaths by up to one-third in…
Cell phones around the U.S. have been reporting outages affecting both phone calls and text messaging with T-Mobile service. Downdetector.com, which reports on outages, began receiving reports in the southeastern…
U.S. regulators on Monday revoked emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause deadly side effects.…
How accurate are the coronavirus tests used in the U.S.? Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work, and experts at top…
Take the stairs, not the elevator, down from your hotel room. Encourage people to bring their own food and drinks to your cookout. Use hand sanitizer after banking at an…
Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it will help other patients recover from the coronavirus. And while the jury’s still out, now scientists are…
The FBI anticipates cyber criminals will exploit mobile banking platforms to increased time at home, and Americans are conducting banking activities with mobile devices. Since the beginning of 2020, there…
The first experimental COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. is on track to begin a huge study next month to prove if it really can fend off the coronavirus, its manufacturer…
Dr. Yaakov Shimshoni, of the Volcani Center Research Organization, wasn’t looking for it, be he found traces of medicines and pesticides in Israeli milk. “I sent a milk sample to…
Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it would start human trials of its potential COVID-19 vaccine in the second half of July, two months earlier than planned, as drugmakers race…
The head of the World Health Organization’s Outbreak Investigation Task Force on Tuesday clarified comments she made the day before that asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus is “very rare,” saying…