Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin are being used to treat and prevent COVID-19 despite weak evidence for effectiveness, and physicians and patients should be aware of…
You might have heard that COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway in Seattle. What exactly is being tested? How much longer will these tests take? And…
A new study on the Ebola outbreak examines the community response in Sierra Leone, which accounted for half of the 28,000 cases in West Africa….
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Researchers have identified a total of four cases of newborn babies with COVID-19 infection in China. In all cases, the babies experienced only mild symptoms…
Primate experts warn that the global human health emergency of COVID-19 also threatens our closest living relatives — endangered great apes. Nature published their commentary…
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The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover. As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be…
Data from over 200 U.S. urban areas highlight need for more aggressive countermeasures. Cities are vibrant centers of modern life, tied together by dense and…
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia have developed a vaccine that fully protects mice against a lethal dose of MERS,…
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Ivermectin Is Being Tested as a Possible Treatment for COVID-19, But That’s No Reason to Buy It Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as…
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched a new searchable database that contains the latest guidance and research on the COVID-19 pandemic from the…
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Scientists at Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago search for COVID19 treatments and analysis. As COVID-19 makes its way around the world, scientists are…
While shown to be effective in the lab environment, Ivermectin cannot be used in humans for COVID-19 until further testing and clinical trials have been…
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As doctors around the country scramble to diagnose cases of COVID-19, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) are creating from…
