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U.S. to stockpile vaccine candidates as trials continue: health secretary

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 23:36
The U.S. government plans to stockpile hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines that are under development to combat the novel coronavirus with the goal of having one or more vaccines ready to deploy by the end of the year, the health secretary said on Friday.
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Trump says U.S. working with other countries on coronavirus vaccine

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 23:36
President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. government was working with other countries to develop, quickly, a vaccine to prevent infection by the coronavirus while also preparing for its distribution once one is ready.
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Brazil registers new daily record of 15,305 coronavirus cases

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 23:21
Brazil confirmed 15,305 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, a record for a 24-hour period, as well as 824 related deaths, according to data from the Health Ministry.
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FDA approves Bristol-Myers combo therapy for lung cancer

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 22:56
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Bristol Myers Squibb Co's combination therapy for previously untreated patients with a form of lung cancer, a much-needed boost as the company battles the dominance of Merck's Keytruda.
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CDC reports 1,412,121 coronavirus cases, 85,990 deaths

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 22:50
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 1,412,121 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 27,191 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 2,043 to 85,990.
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U.S. funds rush to tech companies and battered energy stocks in first-quarter

Technology News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 22:35
Prominent U.S. fund managers piled into big-name technology stocks and bottom-fished in the beaten-down energy sector as markets reeled from the coronavirus-fueled selloff in the first quarter, regulatory filings released on Friday showed.
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Trump says considering making vaccine available free of charge

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 22:34
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was looking at possibly making a coronavirus vaccine available free of charge.
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Gilead to end coronavirus drug trials, adding to access worry: researchers

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 21:04
Gilead Sciences Inc's two clinical studies of its potential coronavirus treatment remdesivir will wind down by the end of May, closing off a path of patient access to the antiviral medication, according to U.S. researchers involved in the studies.
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Clovis Oncology's Rubraca gets FDA approval for prostate cancer

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 20:56
Clovis Oncology Inc said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its drug Rubraca for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, whose tumors have a genetic mutation.
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Amazon planning to reopen its French warehouses from May 19

Technology News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 20:56
Amazon said on Friday it aims to gradually reopen its French warehouses from May 19 as it finalizes an agreement with unions and work councils to end a dispute over coronavirus protection steps that closed the sites for more than one month.
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France's coronavirus death toll over 27,500

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 20:45
France's new coronavirus deaths reported on Friday were three times lower than 24 hours earlier while new confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease kept on rising at the same slow rate of 0.4%, as the country continues to unwind its lockdown.
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Keenly-watched COVID-19 vaccine 'won't be expensive', developer says

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 20:33
A keenly-watched COVID-19 vaccine will be priced to allow as wide as possible access to it, if it proves successful, and will be made at huge scale to keep costs down and supply up, said the Oxford University professor co-leading its development.
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Statins may help older coronavirus patients avoid symptoms; COVID-19 more than respiratory illness

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 19:22
The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
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Spain quarantines overseas travellers as coronavirus death toll pace slows

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 19:16
Spain imposed a quarantine on incoming overseas passengers on Friday and added new travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as the country's daily death toll falls.
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WHO head says vaccines, medicines must be fairly shared to beat COVID-19

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 18:59
Scientists and researchers are working at "breakneck" speed to find solutions for COVID-19 but the pandemic can only be beaten with equitable distribution of medicines and vaccines, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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Fearing second wave, China's Wuhan ramps up coronavirus tests

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 18:50
Authorities in Wuhan have tested over 3 million residents for the coronavirus in April and May and aim to test all of the rest, state media said, as the city at the epicentre of the original outbreak faces the threat of a second wave of infections.
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UK COVID-19 reproduction rate rises to 0.7-1.0

Health News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 18:37
The reproduction rate of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom is now somewhere between 0.7 and 1.0, government scientific advisers said on Friday, a slight rise on figures given last week.
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Indonesia to impose VAT on internet giants from July

Technology News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 17:08
Indonesia will require big internet companies to pay value-added tax on sales of digital products and services from July, a move that other countries may also adopt as they seek to boost revenues following the coronavirus pandemic.
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Palestinians look to a digital future to connect with their past

Technology News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 16:26
(This May 14 story has been refiled with tweaked wording in paragraph 2 to make clear not all Palestinians marking Nakba were uprooted in 1948)
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China ready to put Apple, other U.S. companies in 'unreliable entity list': Global Times

Technology News (Reuters) - Fri, 05/15/2020 - 13:32
China is ready to put U.S. companies in an "unreliable entity list," as part of countermeasures against Washington's move to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies, the Global Times reported on Friday.
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