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COVID-19 pandemic
Confirmed COVID-19 deaths sit around seven million, but excess-mortality estimates run two to five times higher, and years on, researchers still cannot say for certain which animal carried the virus to humans in Wuhan.
The pandemic
Covid-19, and what a stopped world revealed about the running one.
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RECOVERY Trial
A single UK trial tested ten COVID-19 treatments in one adaptive framework, found a cheap steroid cut ventilator deaths by roughly a third, and just as firmly ruled out several drugs that had drawn far more public attention.
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