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Biden Credits Vaccines, Early Treatment for Quick Recovery From COVID-19
After isolating for five days with mild COVID-19 symptoms, President Joe Biden said he was “feeling great” and credited vaccines, boosters and therapeutic treatments like Paxlovid for his swift recovery.
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White House COVID Czar Warns of Fall, Winter Surge If Congress Doesn't Approve More Relief
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, warned Wednesday the U.S. will face a challenging fall and winter without additional congressional funding for testing and treatment.
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Pfizer: Our New COVID-19 Pill Cuts Severe Illness by 89%
Pfizer says the company stopped clinical trials for its new coronavirus antiviral treatment early because the data was overwhelmingly successful.
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US Officials Cut Short COVID-19 Antibody Trial
U.S. regulators have ended one of Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody trials early after data suggested the drug was “unlikely to help” coronavirus patients recover.
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WHO Study Suggests Remdesivir, Others Have ‘Little to No Impact' on Coronavirus Recovery
The World Health Organization released the findings of their coronavirus therapeutics study on Friday, which studied the impact of drugs like remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine on treating hospitalized coronavirus patients.
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US Pauses Eli Lilly Trial of Coronavirus Antibody Treatment
Eli Lilly’s late-stage trial of its monoclonal antibody coronavirus treatment was paused by U.S. regulators over potential safety concerns.
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Trump's Doctor: ‘The President Is Doing Very Well'
Doctors treating President Donald Trump for the coronavirus at Walter Reed Medical Center gave updates on the president’s treatment on Saturday morning. “At this time, the team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made,” said the president’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley.
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Trump Is Taking the Latest in COVID-19 Treatments – Here's What Doctors Know Works Against the Virus
With 74-year-old President Trump and 50-year-old first lady Melania Trump testing positive for the coronavirus, what are the best proven treatments for them and other patients?
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Trump Departs Hospital in Motorcade to Salute Supporters
President Donald Trump briefly left Walter Reed Medical Center in his motorcade to salute at supporters outside the hospital. Trump was admitted to Walter Reed for COVID treatment on Friday. Doctors have said the president is doing “well” and could return to the White House as early as Monday.
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Nearly 1M Who Died of COVID-19 Also Illuminated Treatment
The nearly 1 million people who have lost their lives to COVID-19 also have given the world a gift: a better understanding of how to treat the disease.
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Yale University, Guilford Company Begin COVID-19 Treatment Trials
The effects of the coronavirus can vary dramatically from person to person. Some may have mild symptoms, while others suffer extreme symptoms and even death. AI therapeutics in Guilford is working on a drug that they say can slow those symptoms at the start. “This is an oral pill that you take, we have five million that we’re making,...
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Clinical Coronavirus Trial Underway at Yale
One Connecticut company is working on a drug to slow the progression of COVID-19 in people who are already infected.
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Drugmaker to Charge Thousands for Coronavirus Drug
Pharmaceutical giant Gilead says it plans to charge at least $2,300 for a single treatment course of Remdesivir, a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill coronavirus patients.
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Study Suggests Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Prevent Coronavirus
A new study out of the University of Minnesota suggests that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has no effect on preventing patients from contracting the novel coronavirus.
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Learning Curve: What Do We Now Know About the Novel Coronavirus?
It has been six months since the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak, and what we have learned about the deadly disease that upended our lives has changed considerably. Dr. Summer McGee, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of New Haven, gave her take on the evolution of our understanding of the deadly coronavirus, six months…
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Coronavirus: Six Months In
We look back at what we’ve learned over the last six months and what the future against the virus looks like
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Remdesivir Trial Shows Promising Results for Coronavirus Patients
Results from a phase three trial show that Remdesivir helps recovery in moderately-ill coronavirus patients.
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HHS: We're Working With Children's Hospitals on Pediatric Coronavirus Symptoms
At a press conference on Monday, Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health, confirmed that HHS is working with a network of children’s hospitals and intensive care units to better understand the extreme coronavirus symptoms in infected children.
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‘Science Will Win:' Pfizer Optimistic About Creating Vaccine for COVID-19
Companies around the world are working on vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus, and that includes the Pfizer lab in Groton. They’ve already started human clinical trials of a vaccine they believe could be available as soon as September. Inside the Pfizer lab in Groton there’s a two-prong approach to defeating COVID-19: developing treatments and developing a vaccine. The...
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WHO Announces 40-Nation Initiative to Fund Coronavirus Vaccine
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday announced 40 countries have united to pledge billions of dollars to help find a vaccine to fight the coronavirus pandemic.