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Celebrities Who Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus

Robert Pattinson The actor has tested positive just days after his movie The Batman resumed production in England, according to Vanity Fair. A rep for the actor, 34, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Warner Bros. did not specify who on set was affected but did tell Vanity Fair in a statement on Sept. 3, […]

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Why Dr. Sanjay Gupta Is Not Sending His Kids Back to School

High Number of Coronavirus Cases in the Area Finally, Gupta outlined how Georgia’s Fulton County, where his family lives, is “simply not there yet” in terms of having the number of coronavirus cases under control. The county has not met the guidelines for full-time, face-to-face instruction. The guidelines require “the county rate of new cases […]

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Coronavirus pandemic still accelerating: WHO chief

The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general told an online conference on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organised by Dubai authorities that the greatest threat facing the world is not the virus itself, but “the lack of global […]

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Scientists around the world are already fighting the next pandemic

If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection—even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How? Unfortunately, this child also lives […]

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Looking for ways to protect against pandemic PTSD

As many places start to look forward to life after the first wave of the coronavirus, another type of illness could be about to follow in its wake. “We’re going to have many more mental health issues as time goes on,” said Dr. Rima Styra, a psychiatrist at Toronto’s University Health Network and associate professor […]