Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency – The Washington Post
Researchers Sarah Hamer and Lisa Auckland donned their masks and gowns as they pulled up to the suburban home in...
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North Korea claims ‘positive trend’ in Covid outbreak, but no reply to Biden’s offer of help – CNN
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that between Friday and Saturday there had been 186,090 new cases, 299,180 recoveries...
The Michigan Mink Mystery: How Did an Interspecies Outbreak Unfold? – The New York Times
The puzzling coronavirus cases highlight ongoing surveillance challenges and blind spots.In late September of 2020, captive mink on a farm...
Lansing-area grandmother, Netherlands native succumbed to COVID-19 – Detroit Free Press
This obituary is part of “We Will Remember,” a series about those we’ve lost to the coronavirus.Frederika Rita Price was...
Over 5,000 Louisiana COVID deaths could have been prevented with vaccine, analysis finds – NOLA.com
More than half of Louisiana’s COVID deaths since early 2021 could have been prevented if more people had been vaccinated,...
China’s Big Tech sees new wave of job cuts as economy falters – South China Morning Post
Businesses with heavy losses, including cloud computing and video, were among the worst-affected at Tencent, having suffered at least two...
Persisting coronavirus could drag out COVID-19 symptoms – National Geographic
Most COVID-19 patients recover from their acute infection within two weeks, but bits of the virus don’t always disappear from...
News Scan for May 19, 2022
Only 25% of long-COVID patients were hospitalized for their infectionsThree quarters of US adult and pediatric patients with long COVID...
Vaccination after infection may cut risk of long COVID-19
A large UK study in BMJ suggests that COVID-19 vaccination after infection lowers the odds of persistent symptoms, with a...
WHO validates 11th vaccine for COVID-19 – World Health Organization
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for CONVIDECIA, a vaccine manufactured by CanSino Biologics,...