JPEO-CBRND, BARDA Partner with SAb Biotherapeutics to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutic
A therapeutic to treat novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is moving forward in development through a partnership announced Apr. 1 ...
Tag: SARS-CoV-2
Health Security Today – 1 April 2020
FEATURED FDA, NIH, Veteran Affairs Partner with America Makes for 3D Printing Innovations During Pandemic Response Through this collaboration, the ...
USAMRIID Resumes Full Operations Following Federal Select Agent Program Reinstatement
Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases continue to work on medical countermeasures for the novel ...
Diagnostic Hoax: FDA Has Not Announced EUA for Bodysphere 2-Min Test
Reuters published a short report based on a poorly written press release on BusinessWire (since removed) from an unverified company ...
Preventing COVID-19 From Overtaking Nursing Homes Requires Spending Money and Improving Infection Control
At least 11 people have died from COVID-19 in New Orleans nursing homes in the past week, just after the ...
Cue Health Awarded Federal Contract for 25-Minute Nasal Swab COVID-19 Test
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and Cue Health will collaborate under a new contract announced today to ...
Duke Starts Innovative Decon of N95 Masks Using Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide to Alleviate Shortages
Facing a critical shortage of N95 face masks that block the coronavirus, Duke Health research and clinical teams have confirmed ...
FDA, NIH, Veteran Affairs Partner with America Makes for 3D Printing Innovations During Pandemic Response
The federal government this week took steps to formalize a collaboration framework to facilitate regulatory and basic science innovation with ...
COVID-19 Infection in Children
We must try and manage children in an evidence-based way, despite having very little evidence at our disposal. A national guideline for ...
The U.S. Government Efforts to Build Low-Cost Ventilators Hit Industry Resistance Over Past Decade
Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded ...
Sanofi and Translate Bio Team Up to Develop Novel Coronavirus mRNA Vaccine
Sanofi Pasteur and Translate Bio this week announced plans to collaborate to develop a novel messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine for COVID-19. ...
Reusable Respirators May Be a Suitable Alternative to Disposable Respirators
A reusable alternative to N95 respirators for which health care personnel can be rapidly assessed for fit (fit testing) and ...
Mapping Risks to the Drug Supply Chain During COVID-19 Pandemic: Critical Shortages Likely in U.S.
The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota has announced preliminary findings from its Resilient Drug ...
Rapid Sanitizing Technology for Ambulances: Call for Proposals
The UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has issued a new Open Call looking to develop rapid sanitizing technology to ...
Abbott Receives EUA for Rapid Point-of-Care COVID-19 Diagnostic
Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the ...
DoD Looks to Panther Fusion System for High-Throughput Coronavirus Diagnostics
The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) announced a contract action to Hologic, Inc. this month to acquire the ...
University of Washington Releases Predictive Model for Hospital Utilization and Deaths Due to COVID-19
Modeling scientists from the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) have presented their first set of ...
NIAID Issues Notice of Special Interest for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases today issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the need ...
Gladstone Institutes Responds to COVID-19 Pandemic
Gladstone Institutes scientists have rapidly pivoted the focus of their research labs to the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2. Specifically, they are ...
Cambridge University to Spearhead £20 million Alliance to Map Spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus
The University of Cambridge is to take a leading role in a major national effort to help understand and control ...
