Tag: Coronavirus

FEATURED POLICY + PREPAREDNESS Schumer Proposes $8.5 Billion in Emergency Coronavirus Funding Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released ...

From working to develop one of the first nonhuman primate models for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to designing ...

The current outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, named COVID-19, raises the question of where diseases like this come from ...

Racing to develop a vaccine against the 2019 novel coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of ...

Johnson & Johnson today announced that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies will expand its existing partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research ...

The Diamond Princess cruise ship has been host to the largest number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases outside China, with at ...

America’s defense against epidemics is divided among 2,684 state, local, and tribal public-health departments. The federal government’s quarantine powers at ...

If Tedros wants WHO to stay informed about what’s happening in China and influence how the country handles the epidemic, ...

The US has a biodefense strategy—it just isn’t following it. In 2018, the Trump administration released a National Biodefense Strategy ...

The drug EIDD-1931 was effective against SARS and MERS viruses in the laboratory, and a modified version (EIDD-2801) could potentially ...

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) On January 17, CDC and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and ...

As health authorities isolate the sick, set up quarantines and close borders, early efforts to stop a coronavirus pandemic are ...

In its newly published infection prevention and control recommendations for COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

The experimental antiviral remdesivir successfully prevented disease in rhesus macaques infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) has produced images of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, ...

A recent announcement by a Chinese health official suggested the new coronavirus might spread more easily than we thought, via ...

“COVID-19. I’ll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine. COVID-19.” That’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization ...

An apartment building in Hong Kong, its units linked by pipes. A department store in the eastern Chinese city of ...

Today marked the conclusion of a 2-day global research meeting in Geneva aiming to set priorities to answer key questions ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted its most recent 2019 novel coronavirus response update call on February ...