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Coronavirus Detected in Some Patients Even After Symptoms Have Stopped

A study of 16 patients suggests that the virus that causes COVID-19 can live inside the body for up to eight days after symptoms end.

COVID-19 Criminalization: Seven Lessons From the HIV Response

Plus: Any restriction of civil and political rights must meet these five specific criteria.
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Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Now Underway

The trial will enroll healthy volunteers to test the vaccine’s safety and ability to trigger an immune response.
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Testing for COVID-19 With Machines Usually Used for HIV and Hepatitis

A Canadian hospital lab adapts two Roche diagnostic systems, allowing for over 2,000 COVID-19 tests a day. How many are in the U.S.?

Opioid Overdose Death Rate Finally Falls

However, the overdose death rate resulting from synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl, rose between 2017 and 2018.

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Supply of Our HIV and Hepatitis Meds Is Secure, Says Gilead

The assurance arrives as the pharma giant cuts off most emergency access to remdesivir, a potential COVID-19 treatment.

Could People With Cancer, AIDS or Liver Disease Be Denied Ventilators for COVID-19?

Alabama state pandemic guidance advises denying ventilators for use by people with metastatic cancer, AIDS and end-stage liver disease.

Yes, Young Adults Can Have Severe COVID-19

Although people over 60 are at greatest risk, younger people can develop serious complications from the new coronavirus too.

It’s High Time NAFLD Was Renamed, Experts Say

Instead of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, they suggest calling it metabolic-associated fatty liver disease.

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New Insights Into How Intermittent Fasting May Lower Liver Disease Risk

Australian researchers conducted experiments on mice that they fed only every other day.

FDA Approves Epclusa to Treat Hep C in Children Ages 6 and Up

Gilead Sciences’ direct-acting antiviral regimen was previously approved for adults.

CDC Launches Online Coronavirus Symptom Self-Checker

A bot named Clara helps Americans determine whether they need medical care for COVID-19.

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