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Swedish health officials said Tuesday that at least another 3,000 deaths from the coronavirus are likely in the country, known for its controversial softer approach to curbing the spread and much higher death toll than its neighbors. The projection comes from one of three potential scenarios presented in a report from the country's Public Health Agency on Tuesday. In the worst scenario, where COVID-19 was expected to follow a traditional pandemic trajectory, over 4,400 more deaths related to the virus could follow. That would nearly double the 5,646 deaths, out of 78,166 confirmed cases, that have been recorded since the start of the pandemic. However, they said a more likely scenario would see clusters of new cases around the country which would then quickly subside. That is a sc...

A small study has found potential hope in the treatment of COVID-19. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who received an inhaled form of interferon beta, a medicine often used in its injected form to treat diseases like multiple sclerosis, had a 79 percent lower risk of developing more debilitating symptoms, according to study results announced Monday by the British company Synairgen. Patients who received the drug, known as SNG001, were also twice as likely to recover compared to those receiving a placebo. WEST NILE VIRUS OVERLOOKED DURING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC? PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT CITES SIMILAR SYMPTOMS "We are all delighted with the trial results,” the company’s CEO Richard Marsden said in a press release. Marsden said the results “showed that SNG001 greatly reduced the number of hosp...

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Michigan had at least 400 new cases of novel coronavirus for the eighth consecutive day on Tuesday, July 21 – adding on 573 new cases to bring the confirmed case total to 74,725. From a look at why the pandemic is prompting a tequila sales spike, plus six concerns public health officials fret about when preparing for a second wave of COVID-19, here’s the latest coronavirus happenings in Michigan. COVID-19 positive tests creep to 4.2% Every day from May 29 through July 12, less than 4% of the coronavirus tests done in Michigan came back positive. Since July 13, it’s surpassed 4% three times. It hit 4.2% on Tuesday, per Michigan health statistics. Nine new deaths were announced, but four came from earlier in the week, identified through a vital records search. Michigan has lost 6,135 ...

On Dec. 20, 2019, a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China, presented to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital with a fever and a strong cough. He'd previously been diagnosed with chronic liver disease but was exhibiting a new, pneumonialike illness. The cause was unknown. Over the next week, his respiratory distress worsened. He was placed on mechanical ventilation on Dec. 29, but died on Jan. 9, 2020.  He was the first recorded death in the COVID-19 pandemic. On the same day, CNET reported on a "mystery illness" that had infected dozens of citizens in Wuhan, a city of over 11 million people. The patients were sick with pneumonialike symptoms: Their lungs filled with fluid; their temperatures soared. On Jan. 20, the first coronavirus case was recorded in the US.  Six months later, the coro...