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2020 one of three hottest years ever recorded: UN
This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded, the United Nations said Wednesday, as the UN chief warned the world was on the brink of "climate catastrophe".
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Digital health passports should not be introduced until COVID-19 vaccines are available to all, report warns
Digital health passports should not be introduced on a mass basis until coronavirus tests are available and affordable to everyone in the country, a new report warns. The same considerations apply to vaccines once these are ...
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COVID-19 outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
A pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan, China was first reported to the World Health Organization Country Office in China on 31 December 2019 and recognised as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
Reported illnesses have ranged from mild symptoms to severe illness and death for confirmed COVID-19 cases.
More information: WHO, CDC, global cases.
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Living with dementia in a virtual world: hope for the future
With much of the U.K. just emerging from its second coronavirus 'lockdown' into new tiers, the amount of social contact we are able to have is still limited. Among the worst affected are people living in the country's care ...
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Rapid COVID-19 tests can be useful – but there are far too few to put a dent in the pandemic
Since September, the Food and Drug Administration has approved seven COVID-19 tests that yield results in 30 minutes or less, offering hope for vast improvements in test access and efficiency throughout the U.S. Most of these ...
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Valuing 'natural capital' vital to avoid next pandemic, global experts warn
Pandemics will emerge more often, kill more people than COVID-19 and do even more damage to the world economy unless urgent steps are taken to address risk drivers such as deforestation, warns a major new report on biodiversity ...
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Pfizer vaccine approved: Here's what the next few months will look like
The U.K. has become the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for widespread use. The government has ordered 40 million doses and the first batch of 800,000 doses is expected to be shipped from Belgium – ...
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Relief for America's unemployed could be crucial for health
Americans who lost their jobs this year due to the coronavirus pandemic have remained healthier and more secure thanks to expanded unemployment insurance, a new study reports.
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What went wrong in Indonesia's COVID-19 responses and what can be done
After nine months of constant battles with the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems Indonesia, Southeast Asia's most populous country, is losing.
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First in line for Covid vaccine? Some US health care workers say no
They can move to front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine if they want, but some US health care workers are skeptical about taking a vaccine that was developed in record time—even as the pandemic rages on.
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Phishing ploy targets COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort
IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization's initiative for distributing COVID-19 vaccine to ...
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Italy curbs Christmas travel to avoid virus 'third wave'
Italy on Thursday announced national travel restrictions for the Christmas holidays designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the European country first hit by the pandemic.
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Growing fears over Thai coronavirus cluster from Myanmar
A coronavirus cluster in Thailand grew to 10 on Wednesday amid fears scores of other Thai women connected to a hotel in a notorious Myanmar border town could be infected and may attempt to return home under the radar.
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Britain OKs vaccine as global COVID death toll nears 1.5 million
Britain on Wednesday became the first western country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for general use, while Japan and Italy pledged free inoculations for all even as the Americas reported a big surge in cases and the global ...
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Official: Africa needs COVID-19 vaccine for 60% in 2-3 years
Africa's top public health official says 60% of the continent's population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next two to three years.
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Iran surpasses one million COVID-19 cases
Iran said its novel coronavirus infections surpassed one million cases on Thursday, as the authorities consider easing restrictions in many parts of the Middle East's hardest hit country.
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'We will not forget our colleagues who have died': two doctors on the frontline of the second wave
During the first wave of coronavirus in April, we wrote about our experiences as frontline healthcare workers in Liverpool. While working on COVID-19 wards, we described the stark psychological and health vulnerabilities ...
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Study finds COVID-19 hindering US academic productivity of faculty with young children
The academic productivity of higher education faculty In the United States in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields with very young children suffered as a result of the stay-at-home ...
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Anti-vaccine bastion France warily eyes COVID shots
France was once home to the father of immunisation, Louis Pasteur, but it is now among the most vaccine-sceptic nations on Earth—a pressing concern as it prepares one of the biggest vaccination campaigns in its history.
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Researchers testing children across British Columbia for COVID-19 antibodies
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in British Columbia, a critical question remains on the role babies, children, teens and young adults play in transmission of the novel coronavirus.
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Vaccine 1st puts spotlight on German pharma company BioNTech
The email that arrived in the ancient German city of Mainz shortly before 1 a.m. in the morning marked a turning point in the global effort to deliver a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic—and for the little-known ...
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