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UK passes 100,000 coronavirus deaths as outbreak still rages

More than 100,000 people have died in the United Kingdom after contracting the coronavirus, a year into Europe’s deadliest outbreak, figures from the government showed Tuesday. Britain is the fifth country in the world to record 100,000 virus-related deaths, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, and by far the smallest. The U.S. has […]

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France says two clusters of UK COVID strain detected

Two risk clusters of the mutant coronavirus variant sweeping Britain have been detected in France, the health ministry said on Thursday. The UK last month sounded the alarm over the variant, which experts say is much more contagious than the original coronavirus. The clusters were located in the western French region of Brittany, and in […]

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Officials assessing UK new coronavirus strain, significance: WHO

Fox News Flash top headlines for December 15 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. While British authorities look into a new mutated coronavirus strain, many unanswered questions remain, according to the World Health Organization. Mutations don’t necessarily imply something for the better or worse; it simply means a change. An organism, in this […]

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Gout drug tested as coronavirus treatment in large UK trial

Americans remain hopeful for coronavirus vaccine following the Thanksgiving holiday Internal medicine physician Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider calls recent vaccine developments ‘truly incredible.’ An anti-inflammatory drug widely used to treat gout and other conditions is the latest to be added to a large-scale trial in the U.K. that is investigating potential treatments for coronavirus. Researchers leading […]

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24.4 percent of UK health care workers positive for SARS-CoV-2

(HealthDay)—The overall prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies is 24.4 percent in a cohort of asymptomatic health care workers, according to a study published online Sept. 11 in Thorax. Adrian Shields, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., from the University of Birmingham College of Medical and Dental Sciences in the United Kingdom, and colleagues conducted […]