Coronavirus

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was possible the United States would have a coronavirus vaccine before the November election, a far more optimistic forecast than timing put forth by his own White House health experts.Asked on the Geraldo Rivera radio programme when a vaccine might be ready, Trump said: "Sooner than the…

A man who was in a three-week coma while he battled coronavirus woke to discover the illness had killed both his mother and her partner.Scott Miller, 43, was struck by COVID-19 in March, after his 76-year-old mother Norma tested positive for the disease when she was being treated at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for a fall.It…

Health 5 August 2020 By Luke Taylor Coronavirus in Bolivia and other South American countries is a cause for concernMarcelo Perez del Carpio/Bloombe While Europe is preparing hurriedly for a possible second wave of covid-19 infections, South America is yet to see the end of the first. Four months since governments began national lockdowns in…

While secondhand smoke likely doesn’t directly cause the coronavirus, smokers can exhale infected droplets into the air, experts say.“Not only are they potentially spreading virus by not wearing a mask, they are blowing those droplets to the people around them to potentially get infected,” Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association, told…

Health 4 August 2020 By Kayt Sukel A mobile covid-19 testing facility in Miami Beach, FloridaJeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images WHEN Antoine Dupont started to feel under the weather in mid-July, he immediately wanted to be tested for the coronavirus. Unable to find a facility where he could get this done near his home in West Palm Beach, Florida,…