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[ad_1] President Trump on Friday accused drugmaker Pfizer of playing “corrupt games” with the timing of COVID-19 vaccine data in order to sink both his re-election and his drug price reforms, as he urged his successor to keep the game-changing policies. Trump has not conceded to President-elect Joe Biden, but implicitly recognized the state of […]

[ad_1] Senior Defense Department official Anthony Tata tested positive for COVID-19 this week after an infected foreign official toured the Pentagon — hobnobbing with the upper echelons of the US military, including the defense secretary and the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Tata, a retired Army brigadier general, is the acting undersecretary

[ad_1] A vial of remdesivir as seen during a news conference at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, April 8, 2020. Ulrich Perrey/Reuters The FDA approved remdesivir as a treatment for severe COVID-19 cases last month, after granting emergency authorization in May. But on Thursday, the World Health Organization announced it will not recommend

[ad_1] Gilead’s drug remdesivir is not recommended for patients hospitalized with COVID-19, regardless of how ill they are, as there is no evidence it improves survival or reduces the need for ventilation, a World Health Organization panel said on Friday. “The … panel found a lack of evidence that remdesivir improved outcomes that matter to

[ad_1] NAIROBI, Kenya — Africa has surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as the continent’s top public health official warned Thursday that “we are inevitably edging toward a second wave” of infections. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the 54-nation continent has seen more than 48,000 deaths from COVID-19. Its infections and

[ad_1] After a Fox News panel traded memes and banter mocking COVID-19 restrictions in some states heading into Thanksgiving, the discussion got testy. “It’s not a joke, first of all. A bunch of people are dying every day in this country from coronavirus,” Former State Department spokeswoman and Democratic operative Marie Harf said. “God forbid

[ad_1] OTTAWA/GENEVA – Canada, which has reserved enough doses to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 several times over, is in talks with other governments about a plan to donate shots to lower-income countries, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Canada has made deals to buy more doses per capita than any other nation, according

[ad_1] Joe Biden and his son, Beau, in 2008. PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden teared up when talking to an ICU nurse about her experience treating COVID-19 patients.  “You got me emotional,” Biden said on a video call with frontline workers. “Anyone who spent significant time in ICU, like I did

[ad_1] WINNIPEG – In July, the Canadian province of Manitoba went two weeks without a single new case of COVID-19. Theaters and casinos reopened and children soon returned to school. By October, the 1.4 million people living in a province only slightly smaller geographically than Texas had Canada’s highest rate of active cases – now

[ad_1] President Trump golfs in Sterling, Va., on Nov. 7. (Associated Press) To the editor: Legend has it that in the year 64, Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned. This image of a ruler pursuing his own leisure has come to represent the neglect and failure of leaders in times of dire need. (“Delayed start