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Infographic: How COVID-19 invades the body, step by step

The newest coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has created a far deadlier pandemic in part because once it infects a person it can ...
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How does herd immunity work – and could it protect us from COVID-19?

Herd immunity is when a virus can no longer spread easily because enough people are immune to it. That lowers ...
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How will fall sports fare during the pandemic? Few remember the 1968 Hong Kong flu roiled football and basketball

Mike Sielski | 
A virus scything through locker rooms all over the East Coast, infecting the NBA’s most respected player, forcing one college ...
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COVID-19 is deadlier than the flu

Carrie Arnold | 
Texas is just one of the states that has experienced a surge in coronavirus cases over recent weeks after relaxing ...
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Why this COVID-19 spike is different: Current U.S. mutated version much more infectious than first wave virus but no more deadly

Maggie Fox | 
[A new COVID-19] mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make them any ...
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Flu vaccine makers plan to increase production as they brace for unprecedented winter season

Lena Sun | 
Even though flu season doesn’t begin until the fall, major flu vaccine manufacturers say they plan to boost production by ...
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First COVID-19 vaccines on track to arrive late 2020, faster than thought possible

Ryan Cross | 
Three companies with funding from the US government—AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna—are on track to distribute the first commercial ...
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Video: Is there an upside to soaring COVID-19 cases?

Wessam Atif | 
Most countries and models that have attempted to control COVID-19 situation have had one ultimate goal; trying to bring the ...
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Even with a vaccine, COVID-19 might be here to stay. Here’s what that means for society

Carolyn Johnson, William Wan | 
It is a daunting proposition — a coronavirus-tinged world without a foreseeable end. But experts in epidemiology, disaster planning and ...
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Disturbing hallucinations and psychosis mysteriously plague some coronavirus patients

Pam Belluck | 
Nightmarish visions... plagued [Kim] Victory during her hospitalization this spring for severe respiratory failure caused by the coronavirus. They made ...
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Asymptomatic COVID-19 infections can still cause lung damage

John Kinnear | 
Modern medicine rightly emphasises the importance of science. The focus, however, too often displaces our attention from the real point ...
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The Three Stooges illustrate why coronavirus-fighting ‘antibody cocktails’ could help contain the virus well before a vaccine

Ricki Lewis | 
“You imbecile!” bellowed Moe Howard as he stuck a finger up the nose of Curly. Moe the bully would often ...
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From lung scarring to heart damage, COVID-19 affects the body long after the virus is gone

Lois Parshley | 
Because Covid-19 is a new disease, there are no studies about its long-term trajectory for those with more severe symptoms; ...
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FDA won’t approve a coronavirus vaccine unless there is ‘clearly demonstrated proof’ it’s effective

Thomas Burton | 
[A coronavirus vaccine must] be at least 50% more effective than a placebo in preventing the disease [to be FDA ...
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Viewpoint: Reporting COVID-19 data is not ‘rocket science’ – yet US response has been a spectacular failure

Eric Schneider | 
Tragically, the United States, unable to match other countries’ response, has tallied the most cases and deaths in the world ...
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Infographic: How COVID-19 mutated to infect the world

Joel Achenbach, Sarah Kaplan | 
A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, ...
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Quest for a coronavirus vaccine ‘reinvigorating’ anti-vax conspiracy theories

Sarah Zhang | 
There is no COVID-19 vaccine, but there are already COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies. Even as vaccines for the disease caused by ...
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Another pandemic? New swine flu identified in China could jump to humans

Jon Cohen | 
[A] new finding that pigs in China are more and more frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that ...
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Will herd immunity curb COVID-19? Not with rampant spread of ‘anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine’ views

Elizabeth Cohen | 
With government support, three coronavirus vaccines are expected to be studied in large-scale clinical trials in the next three months ...
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Viewpoint: Human challenge trials – volunteers intentionally infected with COVID-19 – are ‘uninformative, unnecessary and unethical’

William Haseltine | 
Deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates is unnecessary, uninformative, and unethical. … [O]ne prominent ...
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Sports leagues set to resume without knowing COVID-19’s erratic path, randomness and chronic effects

Ben Cohen, Louise Radnofsky | 
Professional athletes don’t have the luxury of waiting for the outcomes of longitudinal studies of coronavirus patients. Sports are trying ...
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Viewpoint: Just one COVID-19 vaccine is not enough to win the war. We need an army

Faye Flam | 
Scientists have created more than 70 vaccine candidates so far. “If we end up with two, three, or four vaccines, ...
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How COVID-19 works to destroy our sense of smell

Leslie Kay | 
[A]nosmia [loss of sense of smell] seen with COVID-19 is present in 30–98 percent of infected people seen in hospitals, ...
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How widespread is the pandemic? Proposed global blood bank could provide missing answers

Robert Bazell | 
Michael Mina is out for blood—millions of samples, which a nascent effort dubbed the Global Immunological Observatory (GIO), would monitor ...
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COVID-19 infection undercount: CDC says actual victims likely closer to 20 million Americans and many more deaths

Marilynn Marchione, Zeke Miller | 
[A new] estimate [suggests that 20 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19,] roughly 10 times as many infections as ...
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We’ve successfully flattened the curve. Now get ready for an ‘agonizing’ COVID-19 plateau

Ed Cara | 
As the summer gets into full swing and much of the country lifts its restrictions on distancing… it’s important to ...
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Teaching AI to diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing CT scans

Claire Jarvis | 
In China, CT scans are already used as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool when a patient arrives at a healthcare setting ...
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