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COVID-19 Researchers Look Into Llama's Special Antibodies

5:02am May 19, 2020

The global search for a treatment targeting the coronavirus has led to an unlikely potential savior: a cocoa-colored llama named Winter, whose blood could hold a weapon to blunt the virus.

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Feud Over WHO Funding Continues As Group's Annual Meeting Continues

5:02am May 19, 2020

The World Health Organization's governing body meets virtually for a second day. The first day was marked by technical glitches, calls for cooperation and raised tensions between the U.S and China.

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Pa. Nursing Home Residents Among Those To Be Tested For COVID-19

5:01am May 19, 2020

NPR's Noel King talks to Pennsylvania's health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine about statewide testing in long-term care facilities and nursing homes in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.

President Trump looks on during a meeting with restaurant executives in the White House on Monday.

Despite FDA Caution, Trump Says He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine As A Preventive

10:22pm May 18, 2020

by Joe Palca

The impact of the drug on the virus is being studied, but there is not yet evidence from medical trials — and there have been some warnings about side effects from taking the medicine.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on April 29. Pompeo criticized the World Health Organization on Monday for not inviting Taiwan to its assembly.

Pompeo Blasts WHO And China For Excluding Taiwan From This Week's Health Assembly

9:42pm May 18, 2020

by John Ruwitch

By not inviting Taiwan to its health assembly, the World Health Organization kept out "scientific expertise on pandemic disease" and "damaged the WHO's credibility," the secretary of state said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a joint news conference via video on Monday to propose a European Union coronavirus recovery fund of 500 billion euros.

Germany, France Propose $543 Billion EU Coronavirus Recovery Fund

9:35pm May 18, 2020

The plan is to raise the money through EU-backed bonds and be help the hardest-hit industries and regions. The issue of burden sharing remains controversial among several of the bloc's member states.

Dr. Max Lazarus, a medical resident at a hospital on Long Island, N.Y., is one of some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., many of whom have found themselves on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Doctors In Training Learn Hard Lessons During The Pandemic

9:13pm May 18, 2020

by Will Stone

There are some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., and many are pulling long shifts in emergency departments and ICUs treating patients infected with the coronavirus.

Texas Faces A Spike In The Coronavirus Cases At Meatpacking Plants

7:51pm May 18, 2020

by Mallory Falk

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday has unveiled more of his plans for reopening Texas. Meanwhile, the state is facing a spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases — most of them at meatpacking plants in Amarillo.

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A Woman With Dyschronometria Shares Her Experience Of Losing Track Of Time

5:30pm May 18, 2020

Some people in quarantine are experiencing time as moving faster or slower than normal. But Jeannie Campbell who has dyschronometria has been losing track of time for years.

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Coronavirus Update: Vaccine Developer Reports Early Results

5:30pm May 18, 2020

by Richard Harris

The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. is still on the rise, but there are glimmers of hope. A vaccine developer has reported some encouraging, though early results.

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