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Coronavirus immunity may disappear within months – study

Researchers find that 90 days after infection, several confirmed COVID-19 patients who were part of their test subjects had no detectable antibodies in their bloodstream

Not enough patients are enrolling in clinical trials

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Swiss giant Novartis halts COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine study

Chinese scientists have said the virus likely emerged in a market that sold wildlife in ...

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Virus already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

Chinese authorities share the genome data of the latest outbreak with the World Health ...

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China releases genome from Beijing virus cluster as cases near 200

WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan says researchers are working on more than 200 ...

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WHO eyes hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses before 2021

'As far as the use of hydroxychloroquine for prophylaxis or prevention of COVID-19 – ...

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Hydroxychloroquine COVID-19 prevention trials incomplete – WHO

The study finds that while the average patient had just a 2.4% chance of infecting ...

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Study shows how quickly coronavirus spreads at home

The drug has been included in several randomized clinical trials, but the WHO says the ...

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WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trials on coronavirus patients

Globally, there are now 11 coronavirus vaccines being tested on humans, according to the ...

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Germany's CureVac starts human trials for coronavirus vaccine

The research could help inform the next moves of governments under pressure to reopen ...

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Under-20s half as likely to contract coronavirus – study

Preliminary results show that among those who could only breathe with the help of a ...

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Steroid first drug shown to save lives of severest coronavirus cases