Federal health guidelines for reopening schools across the nation will not be altered despite complaints from President Donald Trump that they are too difficult and expensive, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Vice President Mike Pence had said Wednesday that the CDC would next […]
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The U.S. coronavirus death toll has surpassed 130,000 but a U.S. pharmaceutical company says it could have initial doses of a drug ready by the end of summer that could treat or even prevent COVID-19. A $450 million federal contract awarded Regeneron Pharmaceuticals could help get the drug to “many […]
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) – Coronavirus cases and deaths are surging along Colombia’s Caribbean coast as the region becomes the epicenter of the pandemic in the Andean country, with doctors warning many deaths are going undetected. Colombia – Latin America’s third-most populous nation – has officially reported over 113,000 […]
MADRID — Spain is adding more than 1,000 more fatalities to its coronavirus death toll in the first update in nearly two weeks after officials revised a backlog of inconsistent data. At least 28,313 people have died through Friday with a COVID-19 diagnosis, health officials. Authorities had stopped updating the […]
In 2018, more than 2,000 people died from drug overdoses in Australia — about five each day. That’s according to the Penington Institute’s annual overdose report, released today. The largest number of overdose deaths (more than 1,000) involved opioids (for example, heroin, morphine, oxycodone, fentanyl), followed by benzodiazepines (for example, […]
The cheap steroid hydrocortisone can cut Covid-19 deaths by almost a third in the sickest patients, research has found. An analysis co-ordinated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of seven different studies found three steroids – hydrocortisone, methylprednisolone and dexamethasone – reduce the risk of death in critically ill coronavirus […]