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Virginia Pastor Dies From COVID-19 After Holding Packed Church Service
He was based in Richmond, Virginia. The lead pastor at the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Richmond, Virginia, US, has passed away a week after contracting COVID-19. A week later, Glenn was at the hospital and was put on a ventilator after he tested positive for COVID-19. Daily Mail said a day after that sermon banned gatherings of 10 people or more. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Actual death rate from COVID-19 '50% higher' than government numbers
The care regulator for England has told ITV News that it will begin recording the number of deaths in care homes from Covid-19 from this week. Their figures have a lag of nearly two weeks and rely on doctors recording covid-19 as a contributing factor on death certificates. [Full Article...]
Amash looking 'closely' at run for presidency
It's total and the governors know that", Trump said at a press briefing at the White House on Monday. Trump's declaration was met by wide rebuke especially since it was governors who issued stay-at-home orders and states enjoy powers through the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. [Full Article...]
New York City to Manufacture Thousands of Coronavirus Test Kits
The city's death toll is 6,898. New York City has turned to its storied garment industry to shift from high fashion to mass manufacture of surgical gowns to protect medical workers treating coronavirus patients in hospitals. The city's health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, said the city 'won´t be able to get this over the finish line, if you will, if we don't have the supply that the mayor i... [Full Article...]
China Approved Human Tests for two COVID-19 Vaccines
A Chinese biotech company, by the name of CanSino, has already reached the second phase of human trials for its vaccine . In the USA, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the biotech company Moderna have created a potential vaccine that is being tested in humans. [Full Article...]
World Health Organization unsure if coronavirus patients can get infected second time
While a significant antibody response was detected in some patients, no response was detected in others, and Van Kekhove said verifying immunity in those patients with high responses would require further examination. Of them, close to 121,000 have died worldwide, while over 464,000 have recovered. However, there have been numerous reports of recovered patients getting sick again - with the su... [Full Article...]
UK COVID-19 Deaths Rise To 778, Total Count Crosses 12,000-Mark
The government, according to BBC , has been primarily counting coronavirus deaths that are happening in hospitals because it is easy to get an accurate daily number. He also said it had lost one member of staff to the virus. HC-One non-executive director Sir David Behan, a former chief executive of the Care Quality Commission, said he believed the official figures for Covid-19 in care homes wer... [Full Article...]
Wuhan lab 'experimented on bats from cave where coronavirus may have originated'
Still, there are others who have been trying to trace the origin of the novel coronavirus back to the Wuhan lab. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . The project released its first research in November 2017. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services responsible for biomedical and public health research. [Full Article...]