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Coronavirus is more deadly for patients with certain cancers, study says
The study also considered how cancer survival is impacted by other long-term health conditions, estimating that almost eight out of 10 of the additional deaths in people with cancer will occur in people with one of more such conditions - including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes. [Full Article...]
Drug remdesivir shows promise as possible coronavirus treatment
Dr. Fauci said the study is yet to be peer-reviewed with more data analysis but it was their obligation to let the public know about the development. "I hope they don't do that". "If you can do that, it isn't completely free of risk, but you diminish the risk substantially", Dr. Fauci said. The trial, which focused on comparing the effect of the experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir and a plac... [Full Article...]
U.S. state, local gov'ts may need $1 trillion in coronavirus aid
Pelosi said at a news conference Thursday that $500 billion would go to states, a figure that the National Governors Association has asked for, and a similar amount to municipalities and local governments. In an earlier interview on Fox News Channel, McConnell said that Republicans were not interested in borrowing from future generations to bail out states . [Full Article...]
Gilead's remdesivir speeds COVID-19 recovery in USA trial
This study will provide information on whether a shorter, five-day duration of therapy may have similar efficacy and safety as the 10-day treatment course evaluated in the NIAID trial and other ongoing trials. We had built up sufficient knowledge so that when the novel coronavirus emerged, we could move very quickly into clinical trials. They had expected it to be presented simultaneously in... [Full Article...]
Oxford University, British Pharmaceuticals Group Partner Over COVID-19 Vaccine
A person works inside the lab working on a potential CCP virus vaccine at Oxford University, England, on April 23, 2020. The human trials began after the vaccine proved effective on monkeys who were exposed to heavy quantities of COVID-19. [Full Article...]
Men Twice As Likely to Die from COVID-19 Than Women
The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health , showed that among the patients with Covid-19, those who were older and had specific underlying conditions tended to develop a more severe case of the disease and were more likely to die, a finding which is perhaps not so surprising given that so far, elderly patients and those with certain pre-existing conditions have appeared to... [Full Article...]
Kweisi Mfume Wins Special Election To Fill Elijah Cummings' Seat In Congress
In addition to previously representing Maryland's seventh congressional district in Congress, Mfume has served as a Baltimore City Council member and president of the NAACP . In order to maximize participation, Maryland mailed out an absentee ballot with prepaid postage to the almost 484,000 registered voters in the district and set up ballot drop-boxes outside local election offices, in additi... [Full Article...]
Remdesivir Speeds Recovery From COVID-19 In Preliminary Trial Results : Shots
Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Washington. Dr. Ameeta Singh, an infection disease expert at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, says a nationwide clinical trial in Canada that hopes to test three antiviral drugs - including remdesivir - is ... [Full Article...]