Health

NEW YORK (AP) — What is this enemy?Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen before, the world’s scientists and citizens have reached an unsettling crossroads.Countless hours of treatment and research, trial and error now make it possible to take much closer measure of the new…

Hidalgo County reported on Tuesday 31 more people died due to complications related to the coronavirus. The newly reported deaths bring the county’s total to 183. “I am deeply saddened today knowing that we continue to lose more and more of our neighbors to this terrible virus,” said Hidalgo Judge Richard F. Cortez. “The continued…

ISSAM AHMED, AFP 15 JULY 2020 The US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday it would enter the final stage of human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine on July 27, after promising early results were published in an influential journal. The Phase 3 trial will recruit 30,000 participants in the US, with half to receive the…

Stocks in Asia shed earlier gains and traded mixed on Wednesday as concerns over U.S.-China tensions weighed on investor sentiment.Mainland Chinese stocks led losses regionally among the region's major markets, with the Shanghai composite down 1.39% by the afternoon while the Shenzhen component shed 1.604%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index also declined 0.55%.In Japan, the Nikkei 225 gained…

ATLANTA — Doctors in Atlanta are playing a major role in testing a potential COVID-19 vaccine. And Tuesday, they published encouraging results. Vaccines have typically taken about 10 years or so to develop, but there is hope from biotech company Moderna that it can finish a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this year. Its…