Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Friday in an interview with Colorado Public Radio that his state kept a shipment of more than 100,000 COVID-19 tests from South Korea "under wraps" over concerns the federal government might interfere."We were worried that the federal government or somebody else would take them," he said in the interview.During a…
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Friday in an interview with Colorado Public Radio that his state kept a shipment of more than 100,000 COVID-19 tests from South Korea "under wraps" over concerns the federal government might interfere."We were worried that the federal government or somebody else would take them," he said in the interview.During a…
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MONTREAL -- Public health officials announced Saturday that there are 1,008 new cases of COVID-19 in Quebec since Friday, and 114 more people have died in the province. The total number of deaths is now 2,136, and the total number of people infected is 29,656 up from 28,648 announced Friday. There are now 22 more…
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Beef and pork production has slowed down in Michigan. May 2, 2020, 6:11 PM4 min read In response to a recent slowdown of beef and pork production in Michigan, food industry leaders urged consumers not to panic buy as adjustments are made in response to the coronavirus pandemic at processing plants across the state. The…
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FILE PHOTO: Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division hospital hold a protest demanding N95 masks and other critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to handle patients during the outbreak coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid(Reuters) - A U.S. District Court on Friday…
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A trial has begun to test if plasma rich in antibodies from the blood of those who have recovered from COVID-19 could be the key to fighting the virus.Blood is taken from a volunteer's arm and then returned to the body once the liquid, known as convalescent plasma, has been removed. If it proves successful,…
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WHILE HEALTH AUTHORITIES PREPARED HOSPITALS AND OTHER SECTORS FOR COVID-19, THE VIRUS WAS SILENTLY SPREADING THROUGH NURSING HOMES. HOW WAS IRELAND ‘CAUGHT OFF GUARD’? Sitting in her bedroom in St Mary’s Hospital nursing home in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Rose Hegarty was listening to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s March 12th speech announcing the closure of…
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After battling to graduate for two years due to unpaid university fees, clinical associate Retshidisitswe Kotane, finally found her happy ending when she was deployed to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) which is at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19.Kotane was finally able to register with the Health Professions Council of South…
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Top US health official Anthony Fauci will not testify to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House says, calling it "counterproductive" to have individuals involved in the response to testify.Key points:Anthony Fauci is a medical expert helping guide the US response to COVID-19Mr Trump has retweeted a…
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Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 28, 2020. Denis Balibouse/Reuters Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave a robust defence on Friday of his and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “timely” actions in declaring the new coronavirus an international health emergency at the end of…
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