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Red Cross hackers steal info on half a million ‘vulnerable’ people

‘Highly sensitive data’ including staffers’ info stolen from Swiss contractor to charity A massive hack of the Red Cross has compromised information from employees, refugees, detainees, migrants, and family members of all those groups, and the culprit remains unknown. Information on some 515,000 “highly vulnerable” individuals has been stolen from the Red Cross, the organization […]

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Nearly half of Ontario’s ‘Covid-19 patients’ admitted for reasons unrelated to virus

Canadian province to start differentiate between coronavirus patients and Covid-19 positive patients admitted for other reasons Canada’s Ontario province has acknowledged that many of the people reported to be hospitalized with Covid-19 were actually admitted because of other health conditions and were incidentally found to be infected with the virus. Of the 3,220 people hospitalized […]

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Merck files in US for emergency FDA authorization for Covid treatment pill after trial data showed it cut hospitalizations in half

Merck and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced on Monday that they’ve submitted an emergency authorization application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their oral antiviral Covid treatment molnupiravir. The US-based pharmaceutical company revealed the request had been made to the FDA, with the hope that it will become the first authorized oral […]

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Merck’s Covid-19 pill cuts risk of death and hospitalization in half – clinical trial results

An oral Covid-19 pill developed by the American drugmaker Merck has been found to significantly reduce the risk of death and hospitalization in patients participating in a new clinical trial, according to the company’s data. The company, which is developing the drug in partnership with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, reported that molnupiravir “reduced the risk of hospitalization […]