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Two scientists analysed the article and estimate its overall scientific credibility to be very low more about the credibility rating A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Misleading. SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This article by CNBC, published on 8 June 2020, reported comments by the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the significance of asymptomatic COVID-19…

A health worker takes samples from a man to test him for Covid-19 coronavirus. Africa's first data on how Covid-19 affects people living with HIV and TB was announced by the Western Cape.People living with HIV and TB do face a higher risk of dying of Covid-19, but it's lower than previously expected.There wasn't a…

Only 10 per cent of people who are infected with the coronavirus develop antibodies, a professor claims.  Professor Karol Sikora, an advisor to the World Health Organisation, said the majority would have a negative result on an antibody test, even though they have had the coronavirus. Governments have pinned their hopes on antibody testing to understand how…

The CDC released data on Friday from a survey commissioned to understand why more people have been calling poison control centers during the coronavirus pandemic. What they found: Roughly 200 adults who responded to the survey in May said they intentionally inhaled disinfectants, washed food with bleach, or applied household cleaning products to bare skin…

DNA may make people with Type A blood who catch coronavirus 50% more likely to need oxygen or ventilator support, study suggestsAn international team of researchers sequenced the genomes of more than 1,600 severely ill coronavirus patients in Italy and Spain They found two areas of DNA that were more common in these patients than in…