May 11, 2020 / By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News Researchers widely believe that COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic, is transmitted person-to-person, largely via respiratory droplets from coughs, sneezes and talking. A new study suggests it can also be transmitted through the eyes from the ACE-2 protein. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed and is posted …
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May 7, 2020 / Associated Press Despite a massive effort, the nation faces “truly daunting” challenges to deploy millions of coronavirus tests to safely re-open the economy, the head of the National Institutes of Health told lawmakers Thursday. NIH Director Francis Collins told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee that government and private …
May 8, 2020 / By Erika Edwards A 5-year-old boy in New York has become the first child in the United States to die from a condition called pediatric multisymptom inflammatory syndrome that is believed to be linked to COVID-19. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a briefing Friday that the state department of health is investigating …
May 8, 2020 / PIEN HUANG This week, the question of mutation has been front and center in coverage of the coronavirus — from controversial claims about changes that make the virus more contagious to reassurances that any mutations are not yet consequential. Here are some of the questions being raised — and what the …
May 8, 2020 / By John Harwood, Kaitlan Collins and Maegan Vazquez, CNN Washington (CNN) – A member of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff has tested positive for the coronavirus, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed Friday. The announcement came following an hour-long delay to Pence’s Friday morning flight to Iowa, when individuals were seen exiting Air Force Two before the …
SILVER SPRING, Md., May 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first diagnostic test with the option of using home-collected saliva samples for COVID-19 testing. Specifically, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory for their COVID-19 laboratory developed test (LDT), which had been previously added to the high …
May 8, 2020 / Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes Staff The company’s billionaire CEO has secured huge grants on the promise of a new class of mRNA vaccines, but nobody really knows if they will work. From the moment the first case of what would later be called COVID-19 was announced, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel started keeping …
May 7, 2020 / Associated Press A new study finds no evidence of benefit from a malaria drug widely promoted as a treatment for coronavirus infection. Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers …
May 8, 2020 / By Kayla Rivas | Fox News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a rapid diagnostic, gene-editing tool in detecting the coronavirus. The Cambridge, Mass.-based engineering biology company, Sherlock Biosciences, developed a “CRISPR SARS-CoV-2 kit” to detect the virus in about one hour. “While it has only …
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