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Health officials provide daily COVID-19 update at 3 p.m.
Four more people died of COVID-19 in B.C. since Monday's report, bringing the provincial death toll from the pandemic to 121. There are now 639 active cases, including 78 that are serious enough to put people in hospital. will begin re-opening its economy this week. "In addition, our increased surveillance testing has led us to find people in our community who are positive for COVID-19 and the... [Full Article...]
Chinese Professor Researching COVID-19 Killed In United States
The research assistant professor was found in his town house on Saturday with gunshot wounds to the head, neck, torso and extremities, according to the Ross Police Department. He had multiple gunshot wounds, and investigators have said they believe his death to be a homicide. Professor Bing Liu, a Chinese researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in U.S., who was researching #CO... [Full Article...]
New coronavirus adapts to populations; vaccine works in monkeys
The study "Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2" was carried out by a group of worldwide scientists led by University College London. American scientists have discovered a new mutation COVID-19, which may indicate a weakening of the infection. Increased awareness "may encourage earlier diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, as well as heighten vigilance for viral spre... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus spead quickly around the world in late 2019, study shows
The question is: which of these mutations actually do anything to change the severity or infectiousness of the disease? "The mutation Spike D614G is of urgent concern; it began spreading in Europe in early February, and when introduced to new regions it rapidly becomes the dominant form", the authors write in the paper available to read on preprint server BioRxiv . [Full Article...]
Russian doctors dead after falling out of hospital windows
A 37-year-old Russian doctor allegedly plunged from a hospital window after he complained that he was forced to work despite contracting coronavirus . Just the day before Nepomnyashchaya's fall, on April 24, another doctor sustained deadly injuries after falling out of a window in a hospital in Moscow. [Full Article...]
Minnesota National Guard will fly over hospitals Wednesday to honor essential workers
Wednesday, May 6, to "salute those fighting on the front lines of the war against COVID-19". Harlem- 11:05 a.m. "These flyovers are our way of showing solidarity for those who have stepped forward to serve during this pandemic". The planes are scheduled to fly over Billings at 12:50 p.m. Wednesday. Holyoke Medical Center (Holyoke ) - between 12:35 and 12:40 p.m. Cape Cod Hospital (Hyanni... [Full Article...]
New Cases of Coronavirus Disease Announced Friday
We know it's getting hard. Standing in front of staggered American and IL state flags, Pritzker also confirmed an additional 2,341 new cases and 46 deaths over the past 24 hours, bringing IL state totals to 63,840 and 2,662, respectively. [Full Article...]
Heating may effectively disinfect N95 masks for reuse
The tone shifted as OH officially recommended the use of cloth face masks in public on April 4, after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the same recommendation . There are many different patterns available on the internet. While they are in short supply, N95 and medical masks should be reserved for health care providers and other front-line workers. [Full Article...]