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Ontario’s COVID-19 cases above 500 for 9th straight day
Ontario reported another 583 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, while the number of resolved infections outpaced new daily cases for the first time in months. The province says it has a backlog of 55,413 tests and has conducted 43,277 tests since its last daily report. There are now 5,344 confirmed, active cases of the illness provincewide, with about 74 per cent in the Greater Toronto Area. [Full Article...]
The Most Unusual COVID-19 Symptom of All
Khanna, who is affiliated with the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center and a member of the UArizona BIO5 Institute. Not only do the study's findings help with the COVID-19 pandemic, but they can potentially help the opioid pandemic as well. [Full Article...]
Eli Lilly applies for emergency approval for Covid-19 antibodies
The results also appear roughly similar to those Regeneron presented last week of its own cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies. These medicines supply concentrated versions of specific antibodies to help the immune system clear the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. [Full Article...]
United States court denies bid to force expanded IN mail-IN voting
Lake County plans to wait until the 14th day to update the totals, in order to ensure voter privacy, Govain said, though a seven-day update might be considered if the influx of mail-in and provisional ballots recorded after Election Day is large enough. [Full Article...]
Victoria records 11 new cases of COVID-19, but no new deaths
In regional Victoria the total of mystery cases remains at zero. But in a sign of good news, Melbourne's ever-important rolling 14-day average dropped to single digits to 9.9 for the first time. "It is a concern when you have a handful of community transmission, but. we're always going to have cases pop up because we're in a pandemic, but we're also in an economy which is open where people are... [Full Article...]
Visual communication: Facial recognition more important for humans than dogs
The dogs in the study were all longtime family pets who were trained with positive reinforcement to sit still in the MRI machines, Andics assured. 'They can leave the scanner any time if they want, ' Andics continued. "We now see that species-sensitivity is an important organising principle in the mammalian brain for processing social stimuli, in both the auditory and the visual modality". [Full Article...]
COVID-19: Trump Not 'Out Of The Woods' Yet, Says Personal Physician
I feel better than I did 20 years ago!". Conley said it was more than 72 hours since Trump's last fever. Trump's doctors could not say when he will no longer be contagious or when he would be able to travel again. Mr Trump sought to allay fears about his condition by posting regular video updates in which he thanked supporters for their well wishes and ruminated on how much he had learned abou... [Full Article...]
COVID-19: 611 New Cases And 5 Deaths
There 432 cases reported nationally on Tuesday evening and one additional death. The Department of Heath has reported 611 new cases of Covid-19 today, as well as five further deaths related to the disease. "There are now 25 people in critical care compared to 20 one week ago". "Case numbers and hospitalisations are growing exponentially". Nolan said that the national R number now stands at 1... [Full Article...]