University of Minnesota COVID-19 study finds benefit from metformin, not ivermectin
COVID-19 patients were less likely to die or need hospital care if they took the common anti-diabetes drug metformin, according...
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COVID Variants Found in Sewage Weeks before Showing Up in Tests
A device for collecting wastewater to test for Covid-19 beneath a manhole cover in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in July 2021. Wastewater...
Opinion | The vaccines were a biomedical triumph. They reached too few.
Stop and reflect on the success of the coronavirus vaccines. While most vaccines take five to 10 years to develop...
Illinois COVID Update Today: IL reports 5,403 new coronavirus cases, 15 new deaths
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois reported 5,403 new COVID cases and 15 new deaths Friday.IDPH said "daily deaths reported on weekends...
Madagascar Receives More than 100000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
ANTANANARIVO – More than 100,000 doses of the safe and effective Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived earlier this week in Madagascar...
Boone County remains in red zone for COVID transmission as BA.5 variant spreads
BOONE COUNTY − It's been one month since Boone County COVID-19 transmission levels moved from the green to yellow zone, and one week since...
How Workplaces Should Approach Covid Precautions Now
Some 31% of Americans say the pandemic is over. But a roughly equal number believe they’re at least a year...
Will Sutton: A pandemic, COVID and now monkeypox. What’s next?
I just can't.Monkeypox? Really?Anyone who knows me, and anyone who reads me, knows I've been super concerned about COVID-19. I've...
Immunogenicity and safety of the protein-based heterodimer booster vaccine for COVID-19
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers compared the immunogenicity and safety of the protein-based heterodimer...
Covid killed 30,000 middle age people in 2021
Between March 2020 and October 2021, about 700,000 people in the US died of covid, which was the third overall...