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Rushing the development of a coronavirus vaccine could lead to ineffective vaccines that cause adverse effects, Anthony Fauci of the White House Coronavirus Task Force said.

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Sweden's unique approach to the pandemic has drawn interest from other countries. But the data are clear: it's largely been a failure.

UK startup Babylon Health pulled app data on a critical user in order to create a press release in which it publicly attacks the UK doctor who has spent years raising patient safety concerns about the symptom triage chatbot service. In the press release released late Monday Babylon refers to Dr David Watkins — via […]

"We are seeing numbers of cases per day, and numbers in hospital, that we just could not have comprehended prior to Christmas."

Health authorities predicted that 40% of the Stockholm population would have had the disease and acquired antibodies by May 2020. The actual prevalence figure is around 15%.

In 1899, a German bacteriologist named Carl Flügge proved that microbes can be transmitted ballistically through large droplets that emit at high velocity from the mouth and nose. His method for proving the existence of these "Flügge droplets" (as they came to be known) was to painstakingly count the microbe colonies growing on culture plates hit with the expelled secretions of infected lab subjects. It couldn't…

Cramped living conditions may be accelerating UK spread of coronavirus. Analysis shows Covid-19 disproportionately affecting those living in 'the equivalent of Victorian slums'

Several studies show that small children cared for outside the home, especially in poor quality care and for 30 or more hours per week, have higher levels of cortisol than children at home.

The outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in central China has infected thousands and spread overseas, raising the specter of a potential global epidemic as authorities desperately try to contain it.

Coronavirus infection levels in both London and Stockholm were 17%, a study says, despite the UK and Sweden's very different responses to COVID-19.

The UK performed a significant U-turn in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic this week. After days of savage criticism in the press over its laggardly testing strategy, Britain's top health minister made a bold new pledge.

The first flu vaccine was licensed for public use over a decade after the virus was isolated in a lab. Coronavirus research has moved much quicker.

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"I believe thousands are already infected in Sweden... it will all come to an end when so many have been infected and become therefore immune that the virus has nowhere else to go," one email read.