Kristin Novotny once led an active life, with regular CrossFit workouts and football in the front yard with her children—plus a job managing the kitchen at a middle school. Now, the 33-year-old mother of two from De Pere, Wisconsin, has…
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Russia’s coronavirus vaccine hasn’t been fully tested, and approving it now risks side effects and false protection
On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin announced Russia was the first country to register a vaccine offering “sustainable immunity” against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute in Moscow, it’s been registered with the Russian Health Ministry…
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Altimmune COVID-19 vaccine candidate tested at UAB shows positive preclinical results
Altimmune, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has announced positive results from the preclinical studies conducted in mice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham of its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AdCOVID. The studies—a collaboration between UAB and the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based…
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Recovered patients who tested positive for COVID-19 likely not reinfected
More than 260 COVID-19 patients in South Korea tested positive for the coronavirus after having recovered, raising alarm that the virus might be capable of “reactivating” or infecting people more than once. But infectious disease experts now say both are…
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Getting Tested for COVID-19 Is Easy. Just Make Sure You're Rich.
They say that money can’t buy you everything, but extra funds and a little influence can get you to the front of the coronavirus testing line. In the midst of a severe shortage of coronavirus tests, many Americans, even those…
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