AstraZeneca Plc to develop and secure supplies of up to 100,000 doses of COVID-19 antibody treatment, a similar class of drug that was used in treating President Donald Trump.The agreement, under the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed, is for developing a monoclonal antibody cocktail that can prevent COVID-19, especially in high-risk population like those over 80 years old, the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services said.The treatment has come under the spotlight after Trump was treated with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' antibody drug last week.

The president has also released a video on Twitter touting its benefits.In a call earlier on Friday, a top U.S. health official said the government was expecting to provide more than 1.

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Coronavirus: Biden says pandemic is worsening, blames Trump

One day after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won a TV ratings battle with US. President Donald Trump as the two held competing town halls with voters, Biden focused his campaign in Michigan on health care, blaming Trump for the increase in COVID-19 cases.

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Trump duped by fake news story of Twitter going down to protect Biden

Donald Trump blamed Thursday’s global Twitter outage on a deliberate attempt by the company to protect Joe Biden, citing an obviously fake news story written in the style of “The Onion.”“Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread of Negative Biden News,” read the headline on the Babylon Bee, a Christian satire site. The fake story claimed that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had smashed up his servers on Thursday to censor an unverified New York Post story about the Democratic nominee for president and his son, Hunter.Twitter did limit the spread of the story on Thursday due to its policy around hacked materials.

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New Zealand deputy PM mocks COVID-19 denier: ‘Sorry sunshine, wrong place’

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters mocked a coronavirus skeptic while taking questions on Monday, swiftly smacking down the man’s conspiratorial ideas about COVID-19.The incident was captured on video while Peters, head of the New Zealand First Party, was campaigning for re-election at a public meeting in Tauranga.The man, who spoke with a North American accent, stood up in the audience and challenged Peters to prove that the coronavirus exists.“Where is your evidence that there is a virus that causes this disease?” he demanded.“Sit down,” Peters interjected.

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First lady lashes out at reports about friend who tell-all

DORAL, Fla. – Melania Trump lashed out Friday at “self-serving adults” for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser, writing that the attention paid to “salacious claims” about the broken relationship comes at the expense of her work on behalf of children.Mrs. Trump also sharply criticized Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former friend and aide who recently wrote a tell-all book about the friendship, her role in helping produce President Donald Trump's inauguration and her work helping the first lady set up her office.“We all know that more often than not, information that could be helpful to children is lost in the noise made by self-serving adults,” the first lady said in a blog post.

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Chris Christie, Still Recovering From COVID, Urges Trump to Fully Embrace Masks

Chris Christie on Friday morning gave his first interview since leaving the hospital where he was in the ICU for seven days while battling COVID-19. The ABC contributor told Good Morning America'sGeorge Stephanopoulos that he is a changed man.

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Study finds 4 drugs have little to no effect on COVID-19

GENEVA : The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence" that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no effect on severe cases, the U.N.

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QAnon supporters behind canceled fundraiser give Trump $1M

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump recently accepted $1 million in campaign contributions from a couple whose vocal support for the QAnon conspiracy theory led to the cancellation of a fundraiser they were supposed to host for Vice President Mike Pence last month. The couple, Caryn and Michael Borland, have shared QAnon memes and retweeted posts from QAnon accounts, The Associated Press reported in September, which led to the cancellation of a Montana fundraiser.

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Trump shares fake story from satire website claiming Twitter shut down to help Biden

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday shared a fake story on Twitter from a satirical website that mockingly claimed Twitter shut down its network to slow the spread of negative news regarding Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.The article was published by The Babylon Bee — which bills itself as “the world’s best satire site” and uses the tagline, “fake news you can trust.”Trump shared the article, titled “Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News,” early Friday on his Twitter account.“Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night.

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Remdesivir among 4 drugs with 'little or no effect' on COVID-19 survival, WHO study says

GENEVA - The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence” that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no effect on severe cases, the U.N.

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Trump appears to admit to $400M debt, calls it ‘a peanut’

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to confirm he owes $400 million dollars to unknown sources during a town hall television event on Thursday. Trump said he doesn’t owe the money to Russia or any “sinister people.”

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Fact check: A look at claims Trump, Biden made during competing town halls

Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Biden admits elements of past U.S.

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Trump Dodges COVID-19 Testing Question, Biden Denounces White House's Handling of Virus in Town Halls

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to the pandemic that has reshaped the nation. Trump was defensive about his administration's handling of the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 215,000 American lives, and evasive when when pressed about whether he took a required COVID-19 test before his first debate with Biden.

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Savannah Guthrie Addresses NBC Controversy, Pushes Trump on COVID-19 Testing in Contentious Town Hall Opener

Todayco-anchor Savannah Guthrie kicked off Thursday night's NBC town hall in Miami with President Donald Trump addressing the scheduling chaos and controversy around the debate-turned-solo event. "We want to say right off the top this is not how things were supposed to go tonight," theTodayco-anchor said at the top of the debate.

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Coronavirus vaccine: Pfizer may ask for emergency approval in late November

COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with German partner BioNTech in late November, making it unlikely a vaccine will be available before U.S. elections as President Donald Trump has promised.The regulatory filing for the vaccine could come as soon as safety data is available, possibly in the third week of November, Pfizer said, lifting the company’s shares and the broader U.S.

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WHO: Study finds 4 drugs have little to no effect on COVID

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Trump, Biden go at it — from a distance — in town halls

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Savannah Guthrie Presses President Trump on COVID-19 Diagnosis at Town Hall

QAnon, pressing him and not letting him evade answering. The town hall was a replacement of sorts for the debate Mr.

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Biden, Trump squabble over coronavirus response in dueling town halls

Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as the two candidates held dueling televised town halls after their second planned debate was canceled.The prime-time split-screen showdown offered a stark reminder of how deeply unusual this year's campaign has been amid a coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly 8 million Americans, including the president himself. Millions have already voted early ahead of Election Day on Nov.

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U.S. President Donald Trump held a rally in North Carolina on Thursday, just as the polls for early voting opened.

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Remdesivir did not cut hospital stay or mortality in COVID-19 patients: WHO

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Nebraska Sen. Sasse rips Trump over COVID-19, foreign policy

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Whoopi Goldberg, 64, and Joy Behar, 78, are now wondering if Donald Trump, 74, lied about his COVID-19 diagnosis. Despite testing positive for the virus on Oct. 1, Trump left the hospital just four days later and resumed his campaign rallies on Oct. 12. So, Whoopi went out on a limb on the Oct. 15 episode of The View to admit, “The more he talks, the less I think he had it, personally.”

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Trump's election-eve drug discounts for seniors get snagged

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to mail millions of seniors a $200 prescription savings card has hit legal and budget roadblocks, making it unlikely the government can carry it out before Election Day. Democratic lawmakers have raised questions about whether the administration has the authority to order on its own billions of dollars in Medicare spending for what the Democrats say are political reasons.

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Tiffany Trump Faces Backlash For Throwing Lavish Birthday Party Amid Pandemic: ‘Bye Tiffany’

As the number of COVID-19 deaths nears 16,000 in Florida, Tiffany Trump celebrated her birthday with multiple lavish, massive birthday parties across Miami. President Donald Trump‘s daughter partied the night away on October 11 with a group of friends, popping bottles of champagne, dancing, and even sharing a birthday cake decorated with her Instagrams. #ByeTiffany started trending on Twitter on October 15 after a PAC called MeidasTouch produced a video targeting the First Daughter for celebrating as Americans’ lives were ruined by coronavirus.

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Coronavirus: Trump extends ‘best wishes’ to Kamala Harris’ staff after 2 test positive

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday extended his “best wishes” to Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her staff after her communications director and a flight crew member tested positive for COVID-19.

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Campaigns, festivals held as more Floridians test positive for COVID-19

Facebook page.Vice President Mike Pence will also be in South Florida on Thursday campaigning ahead of the November election.Nearly 2 million voters have already cast their ballots from a distance, and presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden continue to make sweeping attempts to spend the few days campaigning in Florida before early voting kicks off.The coronavirus pandemic brought a push for mail-in ballots, citing a safe option for those concerned with contracting the virus. As of Wednesday morning, 1,916,920 Floridians have returned their mail-in ballots, according to the U.S.

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Why Trump’s covid-19 antibody cocktail won’t be widely available

Donald Trump credited for his swift coronavirus recovery won’t become widely available because it’s impossible to make enough for everyone who might need it, according to the Swiss pharmaceutical giant working on scaling up production.“We’ll never be able to produce enough," said Bill Anderson, drugs chief at Roche Holding AG, which is working together with US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. on the project.

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Melania Trump Says Barron Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19, Now Negative

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Dueling town halls for Trump, Biden after debate plan nixed

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete for TV audiences in dueling town hall meetings instead of meeting face-to-face for their second debate as originally planned.The two will take questions in different cities on different networks Thursday night: Trump on NBC from Miami, Biden on ABC from Philadelphia.

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Rambling Donald Trump insists Covid-19 is 'China virus' as 'to me corona means Italy'

Donald Trump said "to me corona means Italy" before calling it the "China virus" as he detailed his own fight with the killer bug.

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White House staff infected with coronavirus begin returning to work, spurning masks

coronavirus spread through the White House, staffers have begun trickling back to the West Wing, saying they only had mild symptoms and again spurning the use of masks despite criticism that they have been careless about the outbreak.With U.S. President Donald Trump declaring himself immune after his own bout with COVID-19 required hospitalization, his aides at the White House, his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee are steadily recovering from a sickness that sidelined many of them just weeks before the Nov.

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AP Explains: Trump seizes on dubious Biden-Ukraine story

WASHINGTON – Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden 20 days before the election, President Donald Trump’s campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Biden’s relationship with Ukraine. But the story in the New York Post raises more questions than answers, including about the authenticity of an email at the center of the story.

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First lady Melania Trump says son Barron was positive for Covid-19, now negative

Melania Trump says her 14-year-old son, Barron, had tested positive for the coronavirus but has since tested negative.The White House initially said he had tested negative, after both of his parents tested positive earlier this month.The first lady said Wednesday that subsequent testing showed Barron had also come down with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.He has since tested negative, she said, as have both she and President Donald Trump.After she and the president received their positive results Oct. 1, Mrs.

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Trump and Biden vying for battleground North Carolina

With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are honing in on a battleground state.

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Melania Trump Reveals Barron Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Donald Continues To Falsely Claim Immunity

Let’s make one thing clear: as the coronavirus crisis wears on, no one has done more damage in the United States — and possibly the world — than President Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump's son Barron tested positive for Covid-19 after his parents caught virus

Donald Trump's 14-year-old son Barron has tested positive for COVID-19 but exhibited no symptoms. First Lady Melania Trump told how the youngster contracted the virus after both of his parents tested positive.

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Barron Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19 Earlier This Month

COVID-19 earlier this month, first lady Melania Trump announced in a personal essay posted on the White House website. The 14-year-old has since tested negative, as have the first lady and the president, since the two contracted the virus earlier this month. Mr.

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Donald Trump stifles coughs as he struggles through speech recovering from Covid-19

Donald Trump stifled a cough as he gave a speech with a noticeably raspy voice during a White House speech today.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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