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Millennials experienced a "health shock" because of declining mental health, even before the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Lozano Gonzalez/Getty Images The mental-health effects of the coronavirus pandemic are hitting people of all ages.Millennials find themselves in a precarious position. The generation had already been experiencing a mental-health decline. The loneliness and anxiety of quarantine life are…

Monkeys given an experimental vaccine from the University of Oxford appear to have resisted the novel coronavirus.Six rhesus macaques given hAdOx1 nCoV-19 in Montana did not fall ill despite heavy exposure, The New York Times reported Monday.There is no guarantee the vaccine will work on humans, but successful animal tests are a promising early sign.The…

Emails obtained by Vanity Fair indicate the Trump administration cooked up a plan to distribute the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine to millions of COVID-19 sufferers.Brett Giroir, the Trump adviser overseeing the coronavirus testing, emailed health officials on April 4 suggesting the drug should be made widely available outside of hospitals.Trump began pushing hydroxychloroquine as a "cure"…

Though the coronavirus is primarily a respiratory disease that affects the lungs, it can cause heart, kidney, and brain problems.Doctors have reported blood clots in patients with severe cases. A group of experts in New York City have also recorded a handful of cases in which young coronavirus patients experienced large-vessel strokes, which involve a blood…

Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, has defended his country's unusually lax response to the coronavirus.Sweden has encouraged social distancing but has not forced businesses, restaurants, or schools to close.Tegnell said the strategy had achieved its goal of defending the health service and that Stockholm was showing signs of herd immunity.Its case numbers are comparable to…