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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Most of the coronavirus-related deaths in the US were avoidable, Deborah Birx, MD, the coronavirus response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, told CNN. Birx and several doctors who ran the pandemic response spoke with Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s chief medical

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Last week, Anthony Fauci, MD, said that “virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated” in April. But on Tuesday, the Biden administration changed the timeline for mass vaccinations to May, June, or July. At a CNN

A massive Halloween party that went against Utah's COVID-19 restrictions is causing health officials concern. Utah officials estimate that there were anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 people at a Halloween rave on Saturday night, as Utah sees some of its highest numbers of COVID-19 cases yet. According to social media posts, the party was organized

Halle Berry View this post on Instagram You’ve got to COORDINATE. ? #MasksSaveLives A post shared by Halle Berry (@halleberry) on Sep 27, 2020 at 3:09pm PDT The actress and director showed off her matching mask with boyfriend Van Hunt. “You’ve got to COORDINATE #MasksSaveLives,” Berry wrote. 1 of 23 Steve Martin Steve Martin joked

A new review published in Frontiers in Public Health suggests that COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, will likely become seasonal in countries with temperate climates, but only when herd immunity is attained. Until that time, COVID-19 will continue to circulate across the seasons. These conclusions highlight the absolute importance of public health

A century-old tuberculosis vaccine may play a role in reducing death due to Covid-19 infection, a preliminary study has suggested. Researchers from the US-based the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health made the link to Bacille Calmette-Guerin, or BCG, after comparing data on Covid-19 mortality rates across the

People need not panic over new research findings that coronavirus is airborne as studies cited by a group of over 200 scientists only convey it can be ‘atleast temporarily’ in air and does not mean the pathogen is flying all over and will infect everyone, an expert has said. This meant, people should wear mask

The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours. The UN health agency said Brazil led the way with 54,771 cases tallied and the U.S. next at 36,617. Over 15,400 came in, in India. Experts said

Americans are growing tired of staying at home and beginning to venture outside more as “quarantine fatigue” sets in, according to researchers who looked at cell phone data from around the country. People around the U.S. are starting to go outside more often and are traveling farther from their homes, researchers from the Maryland Transportation

The United Nations warned of the dangerous shortfall on Tuesday. Measles immunisation campaigns in 24 countries have already been delayed. Please sign up to pledge your support now to our brave NHS Heroes The Measles & Rubella Initiative (M&RI) is backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN children’s fund UNICEF and others. The