• U.S. added record 4.2 million COVID-19 cases in November • Osterholm says there’s light at the end of tunnel in form of promising vaccines • Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton tests positive • Vietnam records its first case of local transmission in almost three months The U.S. set a …
Read More »Coronavirus update: Global COVID-19 cases top 38.9 million as trial of promising therapy finds it does not stop patients dying
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 world-wide climbed above 38.9 million on Friday, as a clinical trial found one therapy believed to be promising as a treatment to have no effect on mortality in hospitalized patients. The trial, conducted by the World Health Organization, found that …
Read More »Trump discharged from hospital after three nights — how the length of his hospitalization compares to other coronavirus patients
President Donald Trump was discharged from Walter Reed medical center on Monday evening, three nights after he was admitted Friday to the military hospital for coronavirus treatment. “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” he wrote on TWTR, +2.58% Monday afternoon, telling …
Read More »‘Somebody seriously dropped the ball.’ Why did the Mayo Clinic let Mike Pence visit patients with no mask?
Why would a hospital, ranked No. 1 in the U.S., break its own policies and put its patients’ and medical staff’s health and even their lives at risk by allowing a visitor to walk around wards with no mask, no gown — and without maintaining the recommended six-feet distance? U.S. …
Read More »Gilead drug produced ‘rapid’ recovery in coronavirus patients, report says
University of Chicago Medicine researchers said they saw “rapid recoveries” in 125 COVID-19 patients taking Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental drug remdesivir as part of a clinical trial, according to a Thursday afternoon report. Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD, +2.55% jumped 12.7% in after-hours trading on Thursday following the publication …
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