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Officials Warn Americans To ‘Start Planning’ For ‘Bad’ Coronavirus Outbreak In US!
In a statement , the CDC said that the person didn't have "relevant travel history or exposure to another known patient with COVID-19". While efforts to contain the number of COVID-19 cases will continue, IL will also utilize community mitigation strategies. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus sees US-South Korea military drills postponed
U.S. "Compounded with the already dramatic interruptions to global supply chains in China , traders fear that a rapid spread of the disease to other major economies could be enough to temporarily tip global economic growth into contraction in the first half of the year", said Matt Weller, global head of market research at GAIN Capital in London. [Full Article...]
How deadly is new coronavirus? It's still too early to tell
A Civil Defense member wearing protective suits sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus . Quebec health officials are monitoring 30 people who may have contracted the novel coronavirus, now known as COVID-19. According to DW Akademie , "Researchers from the South China Agricultural University have found that a genetic sequence of the virus from pangolins is 99% identica... [Full Article...]
CDC: Americans should prepare for ‘significant disruption’ from coronavirus outbreak
He's announced that at 10am Sydney time he will hold a press conference with senior officials from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to try and ease the concerns of Americans. "But these are things that people need to start thinking about now", Messonier said. "We really want to prepare the American public for the possibility that their lives will be disrupted", Messonnier sai... [Full Article...]
Bernie Sanders Aims to Tax The Rich to Pay For The Poor
Eliminating health expenditures would raise about $3 trillion over the next ten years and taxing capital gains $2.5 trillion. However, critics have been quick to dismiss that study, with health economists warning that its findings rely on unrealistic assumptions to arrive at that number. [Full Article...]
Moderna ships first batch of coronavirus vaccine for human trials
Moderna specializes in vaccines based on ribonucleic acid (RNA), which is a chemical messenger containing instructions for making proteins. The first vials were sent to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, which will ready the vaccine for human testing as early as April. [Full Article...]
Why Doctors Found Alcohol In Woman's Bladder, Though She Doesn't Drink
She was instead referred to an alcohol abuse treatment. According to Interesting Engineering , doctors at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center were initially skeptical of her no-drinking claims, since multiple urine tests for alcohol showed up positive. [Full Article...]
South Korea on Alert After Surge in Coronavirus Cases
South Korea has identified 763 cases, with 605 of them being transmitted within the country; seven people had died as of Monday morning. The conflicting reports raised questions about the Iranian government's transparency concerning the outbreak. [Full Article...]