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Together in life and together in death, a pair of high school sweethearts from Texas who had been married for 53 years died from coronavirus side-by-side, holding hands. Son Tim Tarpley says his parents, Curtis and Betty Tarpley, were both diagnosed with COVID-19 at the same time in June. His mother was admitted to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth shortly before his father, and she declined faster. “My mom called me and said, ‘Hey, I want to let you know I’m ready to go.’ And I yelled and screamed,” Tim Tarpley said. He then called his dad, who was on a different floor of the hospital. “He said, ‘How’s your mom?’ I said, ‘Well, she’s not good. She may not make it past tomorrow.’ It...

Leading health experts have warned scientists may not be able to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at all and pointed that it has happened before in case of HIV and dengue among others, a report has said. More than 100 vaccines are currently under pre-clinical trials and a couple of those have entered the human trial stage—at Oxford University in England made from a chimpanzee virus and in the US for a different vaccine produced by Moderna. “There are some viruses that we still do not have vaccines against,” Dr David Nabarro, a professor of global health at Imperial College London, was quoted as saying by CNN on Sunday. “We can’t make an absolute assumption that a vaccine will appear at all, or if it does appear, whether it will pass all the tests o...

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Couple married for 53 years dies while holding hands

Vaccine for Covid-19 unlikely time, say experts