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[ad_1] By Eduardo Simões and Ludwig Burger SAO PAULO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue. Oxford confirmed the plan to keep testing, saying in a statement […]

[ad_1] STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh — People who are sick with the coronavirus pack into chilly basements alongside the healthy to hide from artillery fire. The local health minister who tested positive keeps working, despite a fever and pneumonia. Doctors with the virus perform surgery on the wounded. These are the grim realities of the pandemic in

[ad_1] High school students in a social distanced classroom. RichLegg/Getty Images In a classroom model of coronavirus spread, the back corners of the room were safest from aerosol particles. The combination of open windows and air conditioning removed about 69% of aerosol particles from the classroom. Glass shields installed at desks, when combined with distancing,

[ad_1] Emily Lartigue started a food bank for Disney employees who have been laid-off or furloughed during the pandemic. (Richard Hall / The Independent) At a self-storage garage in the suburbs of Orlando, a dozen or so volunteers are lining up to fill bags with groceries. This pop-up food bank has grown steadily over the

[ad_1] Some coronavirus vaccine candidates currently under development could increase susceptibility to HIV, a group of researchers has warned. A modified virus being used in four COVID-19 vaccine contenders — called adenovirus 5 (Ad5) — has been shown to increase transmission of the AIDS virus in the past, the researchers wrote in a “cautionary tale”

[ad_1] Reuters Wayne Moak isn’t sure who first brought the coronavirus into the congregation at Clear Branch Baptist Church in rural Wesson, Mississippi, but when it got there in late September, “it spread fast,” he told The Daily Beast. Within weeks, more than two dozen members of the congregation were sick, including Moak, his wife,

[ad_1] Coronavirus relief negotiations continue to advance at a glacial pace as the presidential election looms in just 15 days and COVID-19 cases spike around the country. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Calif) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, the deal’s chief negotiators, spoke for an hour on Monday but their months-long near-daily discussions have so

[ad_1] The United States will keep its borders with Mexico and Canada closed for another month for all non-essential travel, the acting US homeland security chief said Monday. “To continue to limit the spread of COVID, the US, Mexico, & Canada will extend the restrictions on non-essential travel through Nov. 21,” acting Homeland Security Secretary

[ad_1] Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has been placed on a ventilator at an Israeli hospital where he is in critical condition with the coronavirus, officials said. The PLO on Sunday said that Erekat, 65, had been admitted to the intensive care unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital

[ad_1] Lieutenant Governor who? A new 300-page pandemic memoir by Gov. Andrew Cuomo conspicuously omits any mention of his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul. Cuomo highlights the work of numerous appointees and subordinates in his administration who helped him respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The governor even devotes a whole passage in “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons