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When patients complain of coughing, runny nose, sneezing and fever, doctors are often stumped because they have no fundamental tool to identify the source of the respiratory symptoms and guide appropriate treatments. That tool might finally be on its way. In a study proving feasibility, researchers at Duke Health showed that their testing technology can …

Remember the days when paper documents seemed like the Gold Standard to all things official? Then along came the internet, cell phones and scanners. All of a sudden, it appeared that the world would get rid of paper.   Take selling a home, for example. Nowadays, you can accomplish all the sales steps via text …

9.11pm EST 21:11 South Korea reports highest cases in nine months South Korea reported 629 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest number in nine months. Of the new cases, 295 were from capital Seoul alone, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported. A woman hangs on a paper note to wish for her …

Doctors are studying the impact of Covid-19 on pregnant women and their unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease. The ongoing study among the city-state’s public hospitals adds to international efforts to better understand whether the …

COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A 65-year-old man with underlying health conditions is Collin County’s 94th death from coronavirus. He died on August 13 at a local hospital. Health officials are also reporting 149 new cases in Collin County, including 29 in Plano. Currently the total number of positive cases in Collin County is 8,445, including 2,156 …

More than 200 Australian studies into Covid-19 are under way, extending far beyond the search for a vaccine. Almost every Covid-19 research project being led by Australians has been captured in a report published on Saturday, including studies of breastfeeding guidelines for parents with Covid-19, filter systems to remove the virus via air-conditioning systems, monitoring …

9.58pm EDT 21:58 Trump unveils ‘warp-speed’ effort to create vaccine by year’s end David Smith Donald Trump has announced details of a “warp-speed” effort to create a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, even as experts warn that such a breakthrough could take longer than 18 months. During remarks in the White House …

1.08am EDT 01:08 David Smith Here is everything we know so far about Trump’s tweet saying he plans to sign an executive order temporarily halting immigration to the US. Donald Trump has been accused of “xenophobic scapegoating” after he announced he will order a temporary ban on immigration into the US to combat the coronavirus …

The world’s fastest supercomputer has been created from volunteers loaning spare time on their home PCs to fold proteins, a scientific task that could prove instrumental in the fight against the coronavirus. According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second – …

12.30am EDT 00:30 Helen Davidson Coronavirus threat to global peace and stability, UN chief warns Here now is the full story on UN secretary general Antonio Guterres’ comments on Thursday and other important developments in the pandemic. The head of the United Nations has called the coronavirus pandemic the “fight of a generation” and a …