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Are there COVID-19 coronaviruses lurking in your laundry? (Photo: Getty) Getty Assuming that you wear clothes, you may have been wondering how long the COVID-19 coronavirus may stay on your various garments. After all, clothing is what typically keeps many of your body parts away from everything else. The answer though is a bit like…

May 1, 2020Updated 9:39 p.m. ETRemdesivir, an antiviral drug designed to treat both hepatitis and a common respiratory virus, seemed fated to join thousands of other failed medications after proving useless against those diseases. The drug was consigned to the pharmaceutical scrap heap, all but forgotten by the scientists who once championed it.But on Friday,…

CLOSEDesert Cove Nursing Center in Chandler confirmed Friday that 53 residents and staffers have tested positive for COVID-19 and, of those, four residents have died. The facility's executive director, Tim Bouseman, said in a statement that 40 residents and 13 staffers have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. Seven residents were hospitalized, and…

Covid-19: Infections could rise by 10% per day after lockdown lifts – top scientistThe latest number of positive cases stands at 5 951, with 217 522 tests having been conducted across the country.Those who reportedly died were from Gauteng, the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal."As we have undertaken to only report fully verify deaths,…

COVID can come for anyone, but older adults, men, and black people have elevated risk of death. Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate. Photos by Unsplash. By this point in the pandemic, we have internalized that the coronavirus could affect any of us. But COVID-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer, either. No one is immune, but…