covid 19
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Over 18 Million People Have Died From the Pandemic, Large Study Estimates
The true global death toll from COVID-19 may be three times higher than official numbers show, according to a report out Friday. The peer-reviewed study estimates that over 18 million people have died due to the pandemic, based on excess death data.
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CDC Confirms Power of Anime (and Ventilation) Prevented NYC Con From Being an Omicron Superspreader
The Centre for Disease Control released a study yesterday that the 2021 Anime NYC convention was not a superspreader event, despite the attendance of one of the first known people in the U.S. to have been infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. But this wasn’t just luck — the event had several measures…
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Scientists Deliberately Infected People With COVID-19: Here’s What Happened to Them
The first results from a UK trial that deliberately exposed people to the coronavirus are finally here. Among other things, the research found that people who caught the infection became symptomatic within two days and remained infectious for longer than a week. None of the volunteers became severely sick, though a few did continue to…
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We’re Not In the Pandemic ‘Endgame’ Yet, WHO Chief Warns
The head of the World Health Organisation is warning against pandemic hubris. On Monday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned that Omicron may not be the last important variant of the pandemic to appear and that talk of a pandemic “endgame” is still premature. At the same time, he was optimistic that this could be…