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COVID-19The Oregon Health Authority reported 277 new confirmed and presumptive coronavirus cases and three deaths on Sunday. The count is the first time in several days that state authorities have reported less than 300 daily cases. State officials in the past week have reported an average 322 cases per day. Disclosure of the new cases…

After testing positive for the coronavirus just a couple months ago, Desmon Silva seemingly made a full recovery.  But on July 16, he stopped breathing. Doctors rushed to put Silva on a ventilator and by Saturday night, he was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital from Tampa, Florida on a private intensive care jet with hopes…

Questions abound as a tiny Italian island has been mostly spared from the devastations of COVID-19.Were people on Giglio Island perhaps infected but didn’t show symptoms? Was it something genetic? Something else, or just plain luck?None of Giglio’s roughly 800 close-knit islanders said they developed COVID-19 symptoms even though the conditions seemed favorable for the disease…

Good levels of vitamin D, the so-called sunshine vitamin, help people to fight the coronavirus more quickly and effectively and reduce chances of hospitalization, Israeli researchers have concluded. However, others are cautioning broad conclusions, saying other factors may be involved. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern of Bar Ilan University told The Times of Israel on Sunday that vitamin…