Several drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could potentially be used to alleviate the symptoms
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COVID-19
Will children be able to get COVID-19 vaccines?
Will children be able to get COVID-19 vaccines? Not until there’s enough data from studies in different age groups, which
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How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected measles vaccination rates?
One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is that more families are putting off their children’s preventive care visits, causing pediatric
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Messenger RNA: How a long shot idea led to COVID-19 vaccines
Hungarian-American scientist Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position
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Americans showing hesitancy toward COVID-19 testing
(HealthDay)—Three in four Americans who believed they needed a COVID-19 test report that they either did not get one or
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Maximizing the impact of social distancing on COVID-19
Social distancing has become one of the key strategies for reducing COVID-19 transmission, together with mask wearing and contact tracing.
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Who’s to blame? How the media has shaped public understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has been characterized by rapidly changing information, a high degree of uncertainty, and conflicting
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Forecasting the next COVID-19
Princeton disease ecologist C. Jessica Metcalf and Harvard physician and epidemiologist Michael Mina say that predicting disease could become as
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New coronavirus strain spreading in UK has key mutations: Scientists
British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus
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Mutated Covid strain that is ‘spreading fast’ across UK – does the vaccine stop it?
Dr Amir Khan discusses ‘new strain’ of Coronavirus More than 1,000 news cases of the variant have been found so
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