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The coronavirus pandemic is still rapidly spreading across the globe, infecting more than 14.44 million people. With more than 188 countries and territories affected, scientists are racing to develop a vaccine against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One of the forerunners in this vaccine…

As the world anxiously pins its hopes on vaccines to halt the coronavirus pandemic, scientists are still learning from the first global scourge to be eradicated by vaccination. Ancient-DNA sleuths analyzing Civil War-era artifacts with 21st-century sequencing techniques have recreated five genomes of viral vaccines mustered to fight smallpox in the 1860s, finding they were…

(Bundit Binsuk/EyeEm/Getty Images) FRANCES WILLIAMS, THE CONVERSATION 19 JULY 2020 People who have been seriously unwell and treated on intensive care units can expect to take some months to recover fully, regardless of their ailment.However, with COVID-19, evidence is mounting that some people who have had relatively mild symptoms at home may also have a…

Golf legend Jack Nicklaus reveals he and his wife tested positive for Covid-19 in March - CNN

It wasn’t until Day 7 of her team’s coronavirus investigation when it dawned on Linda Vail, the health officer for Michigan’s Ingham County, that this was going to be a big one. It had started with just two infections at the college bar on June 18, not long after the state began reopening. But the…