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There was no clinical benefit of hydroxychloroquine administered daily for 8 weeks as pre-exposure prophylaxis in hospital-based HCWs exposed to patients with COVID-19.

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Earth Hasn't Warmed This Fast in Tens of Millions of Years

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Post-COVID syndrome severely damages children’s hearts; ‘immense inflammation’ causing cardiac blood vessel. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring & interventions.

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New evidence confirming the 'frustration-affirmation' hypothesis. When American gun-owners have their goals thwarted, their heightened frustration causes them to (accidentally) shoot more unarmed targets in a firearm simulation, a bias for violence especially in men with low education.

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Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand - Rapid, science-based risk assessment linked to early, decisive government action was critical, and implementing interventions at various levels was effective, finds new paper in NEJM (7 August 2020).

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Children Often Carry More Coronavirus than Adults Do. Younger children harbored between 10 times and 100 times more virus than the older children, and adults, according to a study. But it’s not clear if their high viral load makes kids more likely to infect others.

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