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Dr. Syra Madad of NYC Health & Hospitals says that the ongoing "pandemic" will hopefully be a "good wake-up call" for countries globally to improve their public healthcare systems and invest in outbreak preparedness. read more...
“I don’t think we’re at the level yet where the average person needs to be panicking about this,” Dr. Brian Garibaldi, medical director of Johns Hopkins Hospital’s biocontainment unit, told Yahoo Finance’s The Final Round. The outbreak began in Wuhan, the capital of China’s central province of Hubei. The virus strain was previously unknown and is speculated to have emerged late last year from illegally traded wildlife at a market in Wuhan,...
"I hope it's not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise," Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates wrote in an article published Friday that coronavirus may be the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
The president has dismissed criticism of his administration's response to coronavirus, which has led to a slump in the markets this week.
CORONAVIRUS is sweeping through the globe, infecting tens of thousands and threatening to unleash a pandemic. A health expert has warned some could already be infected without showing any symptoms of COVID-19.
Health experts in Minnesota and around the county are closely monitoring the coronavirus after learning about the first death in the United States Saturday.
Dr. Syra Madad of NYC Health & Hospitals says that the ongoing "pandemic" will hopefully be a "good wake-up call" for countries globally to improve their public healthcare systems and invest in outbreak preparedness.
"One can safely assume that the information that is coming out of Iran is not entirely to be trusted," says Asif Shuja of the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute.
The fact that Iran reported deaths on the same day as its first infections right before its parliamentary elections "can compel anyone" that there has been a cover-up, said Asif Shuja from the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute.
Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is a fast spreading virus that originated in China but has since become a worldwide pandemic.
Harvard University epidemiologist cautions that 1% of those who get symptoms from coronavirus are projected to die, which he says will be in the millions.
A Harvard University epidemiologist says that as much as 70 percent of the world's population could get the coronavirus.Marc Lipsitch told CBS News in an interview airing Monday that "40 to 70 percent" of the global population could become infected with coronavirus, and it's "almost inevitable" that the virus will impact the "entire globe." He added that 1 percent of those who develop symptoms could die. "That is a projection, so we will find...
Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, joins Martha MacCallum on 'The Story.'
Warwick McKibbin, who has modelled previous pandemics, says GDP could fall in a worst-case scenario by nearly 8%
Health experts warned that the coronavirus could become a seasonal endemic pathogen. This means that like the seasonal flu, COVID-19 could become a permanent virus that infects people from time to time.
President Donald Trump was contradicted by a health expert on his coronavirus task force over the timing for a potential vaccine during a briefing Monday.
The president also repeatedly pushed pharmaceutical executives on how quickly they could create a vaccine for the illness.
An opening into the impact of the disease in the reclusive country may have been witnessed Sunday, when a picture taken by the official government news agency showed a high-ranking government official wearing a black face mask.
Twitter has become the latest tech giant to tell staff members around the world to work from home if they can, to try to contain the spread of coronavirus.
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A leading expert is pleading with Ireland to nix St. Patrick’s Day parade plans now that the coronavirus has spread there, according to a report. Professor John Oxford from Queen Mary, Univer…
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The coronavirus epidemic is still an evolving situation in Ireland, a health expert has said. Dr Cillian de Gascun, chair of the Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group, spoke about the illness and how the numbers in the media do not show the true amount of people infected. In the Republic of Ireland there are two confirmed […]
Alberta is yet to have a confirmed case of coronavirus. Canada has only had a few dozen. But the dread disease is already hitting in the form of anxiety, doubt and endless questions.Essentially we&…