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South Africa is stumbling along, mainly due to a combination of factors. One is certainly, as Ramaphosa pointed out, many people’s refusal to change behaviour. Other factors include an inept state and a brittle healthcare system already showing alarming signs of strain, writes Pieter du Toit.President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday night put the country on…

First child dies due to coronavirus in South Carolina, DHEC says The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced the first pediatric death associated with COVID-19 in South Carolina on Saturday.Officials say the child was under the age of five and was from the Midlands region. “Today, we mourn the loss of…

SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. "I was on the…

The United States saw another record day for new coronavirus cases, surpassing 70,000 for the first time, according to an NBC News tally Friday.The record high came follows multiple case peaks since June, including 45,557 single-day diagnoses reported June 24, a 45,942 one-day increase June 27 and more than 46,500 new cases recorded Tuesday.Let our…

A Maryland man believes he may be one of the first people to be successfully vaccinated against the coronavirus after participating in a trial that has reported promising early results in producing antibodies, according to reports.David Rach, a graduate immunology student, was the first person to be injected in the trial at the University of…