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Trump, Congress agree on nearly $500 billion additional Covid-19 relief
The White House and congressional leaders have agreed on a new $470 billion pandemic relief plan with funds for a tapped-out small business aid program and aid for coronavirus testing and overwhelmed hospitals. She added , "It is very urgent, though, that we support our police and fire, our health care workers, our nurses, our teachers". Democrats had blocked a bill nearly two weeks ago... [Full Article...]
Breast implants deflect bullet, save 30-year-old woman's life
In a case study published to the SAGE medical journal last week, doctors described how a silicone breast implant deflected a bullet away from a 30-year-old woman's vital organs. This 3-dimensional image demonstrates the entry wound on the left breast (right arrow), the route of the bullet (middle arrow), and the bullet stopping in the right lateral chest wall (left arrow). [Full Article...]
FDA Approves First At-Home Coronavirus Test
Licensing for home collection followed a request from LabCorp to the FDA earlier this month to expand authorization so patients could perform at-home tests. The FDA is now refraining from using conventional cotton swabs to collect nasal samples "due to concerns with sterility and cross-reactivity", the agency said. [Full Article...]
Germany approves trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidate
Biotechnology company BioNTech's vaccine program was authorized for human clinical trials after a careful assessment of potential risks and benefits, the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, German regulatory authority, said in a press release. Afterwards, when our body is infected with the virus, our immune system will stop the virus. We are now working to adjust our generic vaccine system to COVID-19. [Full Article...]
United Kingdom coronavirus death toll may be 40 per cent higher than reported
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Amid growing concern that figures underestimating the scale of the crisis in care settings may have slowed down the United Kingdom government's response, the Department of Health and Social Care said it was trying to speed up data collection and close the 10-day time-lag in data collection. [Full Article...]
Government announce coronavirus vaccine will be trialled on people from Thursday onwards
Hancock confirmed, "I can announce the vaccine from the Oxford project will be trialed in people from this Thursday". However, Professor Saul Faust, who is helping to lead work to find a vaccine at the University of Southampton warned: "There are not now any licensed vaccines or specific treatments for COVID-19". [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Bay Area deaths in February were first in U.S.
Editor's note: This is a developing news story. The Bay Area became an early hotspot for the virus at the beginning of March, when reported cases were in the double-digits and outbreaks were believed to be mostly concentrated on the West Coast. [Full Article...]
Autopsies reveal 2 Americans died of virus weeks before first report
The earliest death attributed to the coronavirus was previously thought to be on February 26 in Washington state. Two deaths on February 6 and February 17 were not initially thought to have been COVID-19-related, but further testing has revealed that they were, the county medical examiner said Tuesday . [Full Article...]