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A woman gets a shot of experimental COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: AP)

COVID Vaccine

Can Employers Require You Get Vaccinated? Qantas Airlines made global news last month when its CEO Alan Joyce said it would require international travelers to be vaccinated for COVID-19.   “It’s called a digital vaccination passport, and we are expecting many airlines will
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Dr. Louis Falo holds a microneedle array that contains the spike protein that researchers say triggers antibodies against the COVID-19 illness. (Photo: University of Pittsburgh)

Coronavirus Cure?

Pitt’s COVID-19 Vaccine Successful in Trials In two previous viral outbreaks, spanning almost 20 years, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh worked to develop vaccines.   That experience served them well in the race to develop a preventative treatment for the
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Woman in bed holding a cup of tea and blowing her nose. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Worst in Decades

Flu Season Off to an Unusually Early Start As flu season enters 2020, the influenza B strain of the flu virus has arrived earlier than normal making this year’s season off to an “atypically” early start, said Dr. Richard Webby, a member of the Infectious Diseases Department at
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