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“The hardest part for me was the brain fog, the fatigue.” With few clear answers yet, the future is murky for people who still have lingering symptoms after COVID-19.
Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes
More than a third of COVID-19 survivors by some estimates will develop long COVID. Scientists are racing to pinpoint the cause of the condition and find treatments.
THREAD: The @AP is answering commonly asked questions about the coronavirus pandemic in its “Viral Questions” series.
A steady decline in the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths is good news, but experts say it's not time to celebrate because cases are rising as states open up, and more deaths are likely to follow. By @CarlaKJohnson and @nickyaforster
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Researchers are beginning a new study to tell if the blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors might help prevent infection in the first place.
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Monkeys, ferrets and other animals offer needed clues in the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine.
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NASA and SpaceX prepare for the first astronaut launch from Florida since the last shuttle flight in 2011.
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Space Launch
NASA and SpaceX are bringing astronaut launches back to home turf.
NASA and SpaceX prepare for the first astronaut launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center since the last shuttle flight in 2011.
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Space Launch
NASA and SpaceX are bringing astronaut launches back to home turf.
NASA astronauts are set to launch from home turf again after a nine-year gap. This time, a private company is running the show.
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Space Launch
NASA and SpaceX are bringing astronaut launches back to home turf.
For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil.
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Space Launch
NASA and SpaceX are bringing astronaut launches back to home turf.
NASA astronaut launches return to Florida next week after nearly a decade gap.
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Home Launch
NASA, SpaceX bringing astronaut launches back to home turf.
"What Can Be Saved?” — an @AP series spotlighting heroic efforts to heal the planet — is a Webby finalist in the documentary category.
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“What Can Be Saved?,” an @AP environmental series about heroic efforts to heal the planet, is a finalist for a Webby Award for Documentary.
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Apollo 13's astronauts still shun superstition 50 years after their harrowing moonshot.
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“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” 50 years ago today, the Apollo 13 mission blasted off for the moon. The rest is history.
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A half century after NASA’s most harrowing moonshot, Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise insist they’re not superstitious.
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Coronavirus patients are signing up for studies of an experimental drug that’s shown promise against some similar viruses in the past.
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Scientists are hunting for protection against the new coronavirus as the first vaccine study in people gets underway in Seattle. Learn how potential COVID-19 vaccines in development differ from traditional shots: apne.ws/xLgy0gC





