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Health Jun 28
Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine racePeople on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works.
Health Jun 23
WATCH: Fauci says COVID-19 vaccine could possibly be made available by end of 2020 or start of 2021The government's top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he remains "cautiously optimistic" that some will be ready at the end of the year.
Health Jun 23
WATCH: Fauci, Redfield, health officials testify on Trump administration’s response to COVID-19Dr. Anthony Fauci returns to Capitol Hill on Tuesday at a fraught moment in the nation's pandemic response.
Health Jun 11
Moderna on track for large COVID-19 vaccine test in JulyA U.S. company says it's on track to begin a huge study next month to prove if its COVID-19 vaccine candidate really works. Moderna Inc. is developing the experimental shot with the National Institutes of Health.
Health Jun 04
U.K. summit calls for freely available virus vaccineThe British government has hosted a vaccine summit that raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as expert wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the coronavirus might be distributed globally — and…
Health Mar 31
Should you wear mask in public if not sick with coronavirus?Worldwide, the top priority for masks goes to health workers, who are in close contact with patients. Masks are also recommended for the sick.
Health Mar 31
White House turns to statistical models for virus forecastWhite House officials are relying on statistical models to help predict the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and try to protect as many people as possible.
Health Mar 29
Age is not the only risk for severe coronavirus diseaseOlder people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they're far from the only ones vulnerable.
Health Mar 16
Coronavirus vaccine test opens as U.S. volunteer gets 1st shotWith a careful jab in a healthy volunteer's arm, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle begin an anxiously awaited first-stage study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed in record time after the new virus exploded from…
Health Mar 14
Straight-talking Fauci explains outbreak to a worried nationFauci's political bosses — from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump — have let him do the explaining because he's frank and understandable, translating complex medical information into everyday language while neither exaggerating nor downplaying.
