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PARIS — Health investigators around the world are racing back in time.While it was thought COVID-19 only began to spread beyond China and across Europe in January and February, French doctors this week said they have established the coronavirus was already present in Paris by late December — a month before the country’s first official…

Say what you will, coffee purists, but the best way to brew is by the humble drip method, cardiologists claim. Between 2018 and 2019, the world’s coffee growers produced nearly 1.357 trillion pounds of coffee, and the unfathomable number of cups of joe that makes means the plant-derived stimulant has far-reaching health effects. A Swedish…

By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Published 2:05 pm PDT, Thursday, April 23, 2020 A COVID-19 study in the Paris hospital network found that the percentage of patients who are also regular smokers was dramatically less than the percentage of smokers in the general population. The findings suggest smoking may offer some protection against the disease, researchers say.…

The novel coronavirus can survive in high temperatures, researchers said, casting doubt on suggestions that the threat will subside in the summer.Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille in France, led by Remi Charrel and Boris Pastorino, found that the virus survived in 140-degree Fahrenheit temperatures typically used to disinfect research labs, The Jerusalem Post reported.It took…

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