NIAID Looks Ahead to Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates
With multiple promising SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates now under development, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is looking ...
Tag: Coronavirus
Researchers Identify Multiple Molecules that Shut Down SARS-Cov-2 Polymerase Reaction
A library of molecules with unique structural and chemical features inhibit the novel coronavirus polymerase, a key drug target for ...
The Next Once-a-century Pandemic is Coming Sooner Than You Think – But COVID-19 Can Help Us Get Ready
COVID-19 is being referred to as a “once in a century event” – but the next pandemic is likely to ...
Investigational Chimp Adenovirus MERS-CoV Vaccine Protects Monkeys
An investigational vaccine called ChAdOx1 MERS protected two groups of rhesus macaques from disease caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome ...
Health Security Today – 27 Feb 2020
FEATURED POLICY + PREPAREDNESS Schumer Proposes $8.5 Billion in Emergency Coronavirus Funding Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released ...
Tulane National Primate Research Center Launches Coronavirus Research Program
From working to develop one of the first nonhuman primate models for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to designing ...
Why It’s Important to Study Coronaviruses in African Bats
The current outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, named COVID-19, raises the question of where diseases like this come from ...
HHS and Sanofi Join Forces on Recombinant Technology for COVID-19 Vaccine
Racing to develop a vaccine against the 2019 novel coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of ...
J&J to Expand Partnership with HHS to Accelerate Discovery of COVID-19 Therapeutics
Johnson & Johnson today announced that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies will expand its existing partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research ...
Experts Say Cruise Ship Quarantine Pointless, Unjustified and Violates Human Rights
The Diamond Princess cruise ship has been host to the largest number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases outside China, with at ...
The Legal Mess of Coronavirus Quarantine Across America’s 2,500+ Public Health Departments
America’s defense against epidemics is divided among 2,684 state, local, and tribal public-health departments. The federal government’s quarantine powers at ...
WHO Director Fights to Prevent a Pandemic Without Offending China
If Tedros wants WHO to stay informed about what’s happening in China and influence how the country handles the epidemic, ...
The U.S. Has a Biodefense Strategy. It Just Isn’t Following It.
The US has a biodefense strategy—it just isn’t following it. In 2018, the Trump administration released a National Biodefense Strategy ...
Emory, Collaborators Testing Antiviral Drug as Potential Treatment for Coronaviruses
The drug EIDD-1931 was effective against SARS and MERS viruses in the laboratory, and a modified version (EIDD-2801) could potentially ...
Persons Evaluated for 2019 Novel Coronavirus — United States, January 2020
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) On January 17, CDC and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and ...
Coronavirus Outbreak Puts ‘Open Science’ Under a Microscope
As health authorities isolate the sick, set up quarantines and close borders, early efforts to stop a coronavirus pandemic are ...
Masks vs. Respirators: Experts Explain COVID-19 Recommendations
In its newly published infection prevention and control recommendations for COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
Remdesivir Prevents MERS Coronavirus Disease in Monkeys
The experimental antiviral remdesivir successfully prevented disease in rhesus macaques infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to ...
NIAID Makes New Images of SARS-CoV-2 Available for COVID-19 Coverage
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) has produced images of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, ...
There’s No Evidence the New Coronavirus Spreads Through the Air – But It’s Still Possible
A recent announcement by a Chinese health official suggested the new coronavirus might spread more easily than we thought, via ...
