The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that Michigan should “close things down” to help address the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak, days after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer instead urged people to voluntarily restrict certain activities. Dr….
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UN chief warns of long road ahead after vaccines
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that the world could be fighting the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic for decades to come even if vaccines are quickly approved. Opening a special UN summit on the virus, being held virtually as…
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Giving up on virus control ‘dangerous’: WHO chief
The World Health Organization chief warned Monday that abandoning efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic, as suggested by a top US official, was “dangerous”, urging countries not to “give up”. “We must not give up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a…
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Chief of U.S. vaccine initiative says October timeline ‘extremely unlikely, but not impossible’
The chief adviser for the White House vaccine program said Thursday it was “extremely unlikely, but not impossible” that a vaccine could be available by the end of October. Speaking with National Public Radio, Dr. Moncef Slaoui said that the…
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World ‘simply not ready’ for virus spread: WHO China mission chief
The world is “simply not ready” to rein in the new coronavirus outbreak, the head of a joint WHO-China mission of experts said Tuesday, urging countries to learn from China’s expertise. “You have to be ready to manage this at…
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