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Researchers at the University of Washington on Friday announced a major new study of the malaria drug President Donald Trump has praised as a possible, low-cost cure for COVID-19.The clinical trial is one of dozens around the world aimed at providing definitive evidence about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, either alone or in combination with the…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.California National Guard medical teams were sent to several nursing homes in Los Angeles County earlier this week to help stem the tide of the novel coronavirus outbreak.Reinforcements were sent to five facilities as part of a larger statewide effort to limit the…

For weeks, public health officials have struggled to slow the deadly spread of coronavirus through nursing homes. At one facility in Tulare County, 15 have now died. The death toll has reached 18 at a Yucaipa nursing home, 14 at a Pasadena facility and 17 at a convalescent hospital in Bell. And nursing homes account…

The latest: There have been more than 870,000 coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.The U.S. death toll has surpassed 50,000 people, according to Hopkins.Globally, there have been more than 2.7 million cases with more than 192,000 deaths.Georgia state officials are moving ahead with plans to allow some nonessential…