Health and Wellness : ‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship into Worldwide Pandemic

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Coronavirus updates: Oregon health workers stuck in snow vaccinate other drivers; US could reach 500K deaths by February, task force says​

Coronavirus updates: Oregon health workers stuck in snow vaccinate other drivers; US could reach 500K deaths by February, task force says

The White House Task Force held its first COVID-19 briefing, targeting vaccinations and warning the U.S. could soon hit 500,000 deaths. Latest news.

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New Jersey registers first known death in the US from the UK COVID-19 variant​

New Jersey registers first known death in the US from the UK COVID-19 variant

The new variant is more transmissible and has contributed to a large spike in cases in the United Kingdom.

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, watches as Maritza Beniquez, RN, reacts to receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., December 15, 2020. Kirsten Luce/Pool via Reuters

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How the Coronavirus Turns the Body Against Itself​

How the Coronavirus Turns the Body Against Itself

The coronavirus can warp the body’s defenses in many ways — disarming the body’s early warning systems, for example, or causing immune cells to misfire. But a spate of new studies suggests another insidious consequence: The infection can trigger the production of antibodies that mistakenly...

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...mistakenly attack the patient’s own tissues instead of the virus.

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A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (blue) heavily infected with coronavirus particles isolated from a patient sample in December 2020. (NIAID/National Institutes of Health via The New York Times)

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Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals: Here's What They Hide​

Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals: Here's What They Hide

BRUSSELS — When members of the European Parliament sat down this month to read the first publicly available contract for purchasing coronavirus vaccines, they noticed something missing. Actually, a lot missing. The price per dose? Redacted. The rollout schedule? Redacted. The amount of money...

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Governments have poured billions of dollars into helping drug companies develop vaccines and are spending billions more to buy doses. But the details of those deals largely remain secret, with governments and public health organizations acquiescing to drug company demands for secrecy.

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Guillaume Collet draws a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a nursing home in Reims, France, Jan. 8, 2021. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)

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The carnage sworn to stop

2nd Officer Who Responded To U.S. Capitol Insurrection Dies By Suicide, Chief Says​

2nd Officer Who Responded To U.S. Capitol Insurrection Dies By Suicide, Chief Says

Jeffrey Smith died Jan 15, just over a week after he responded to the violent Capitol Hill insurrection.

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