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How Covid Sends Some Bodies to War With Themselves

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Why does COVID-19 strike some and not others? Fauci sees an answer in new study

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said a new study could explain the extraordinary range that people experience with the novel coronavirus, from having no symptoms at all or a mild case to hospitalization or death.

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Global coronavirus cases top 20M

ROME (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil, as Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a vaccine against the virus.

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Russia unveils covid vaccine ‘Sputnik V’, claiming breakthrough in global race before final testing complete

Health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health leaders around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.

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Moderna's clinical trial numbers show there's 'no way' Trump can have a vaccine by Election Day

U.S. COVID-19 deaths drop for first time in four weeks--Reuters

opinion: NIH 'Shark Tank' on track to produce quick, inexpensive COVID-19 tests by fall: Senators

ANALYSIS A Taiwan health official tried to warn the world about the novel coronavirus. The U.S. didn’t listen.

Fear of hospitals is causing too many Mexicans to delay virus treatment

...Mexico is battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, with more than 52,000 confirmed deaths, the third-highest toll of the pandemic. And its struggle has been made even harder by a pervasive phenomenon: a deeply rooted fear of hospitals.

The problem has long plagued nations overwhelmed by unfamiliar diseases. During the Ebola epidemic in 2014, many in Sierra Leone believed that hospitals had become hopeless death traps, leading sick people to stay home and inadvertently spread the disease to their families and neighbors.

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WHO decries 'vast global gap' in funds needed to fight coronavirus

Forty percent of people with coronavirus infections have no symptoms. Might they be the key to ending the pandemic?

New Zealand records 100 days without domestic virus case; Melbourne has worst day

97,000 children reportedly test positive for coronavirus in two weeks as schools gear up for instruction

OPINION:America Could Control the Pandemic by October. Let’s Get to It.--NYT editorial

Six to eight weeks. That’s how long some of the nation’s leading public health experts say it would take to finally get the United States’ coronavirus epidemic under control. If the country were to take the right steps, many thousands of people could be spared from the ravages of Covid-19. The economy could finally begin to repair itself, and Americans could start to enjoy something more like normal life.

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