Senators Call on Trump Administration to Immediately Fill Global Health Security Position
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and 26 of his Senate colleagues called on National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien in a ...
Tag: COVID-19
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 ...
Rep. Chip Roy Letter to Trump Admin Seeks Answers on COVID-19 Risks to Joint Base San Antonio Community
As a member of Congress representing large portions of San Antonio, including Joint Base San Antonio, Representative Chip Roy sent ...
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 ...
New Technology May Significantly Reduce Diagnostic Time of Coronavirus
Based on a combination of optics and magnetic particles 100 samples of patients potentially infected with the virus can rapidly ...
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 ...
China Launches Dozens of Clinical Trials to Identify Most Promising Treatments for COVID-19
A randomized, controlled trial is the gold standard of clinical research. But pulling one together for Covid-19 is complicated by ...
Why Do Some of the Outbreak Genomes Have More Mutations Than Others?
Recent news reports have included speculation that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is ‘mutating’ and ‘evolving’ amid increasing concern that the outbreak ...
Scientists Test Drugs Against Virus Samples from First U.S. COVID-19 Patient
Virologist Matthew Frieman at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is just one of the scientists cleared to receive ...
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) ...
HHS Critical Care Air Transport Team Called Into Action for Wuhan Evacuations
Responders from the HHS Critical Care Air Transport Team were called into action as part of the evacuation efforts of ...
Expert Recommendations for US and Global Preparedness for COVID-19
The novel coronavirus outbreak that emerged in late 2019 has infected tens of thousands in China, community transmission is feared ...
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 ...
Coronavirus Disease Naming Announcement Creates Confusion
“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 ...
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