‘Watershed moment:” Chicagoans among first to test … CHICAGO — A drug doctors have mentioned repeatedly as a possible therapy for COVID-19 holds out hope for reducing severity and duration of symptoms. And now Chicagoans will be first in line to test it. Inside the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an IV drip and a drug are a step toward […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci describes his ‘very different’ … (CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci gave CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta some insight into his “very different” relationships with each of the presidents he’s served under as the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, has worked as a key […]
The timetable for a coronavirus vaccine is 18 months. … Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it’s a blink. That’s the long end of the Trump administration’s time window for developing a coronavirus vaccine, and some leaders in the field say this is too fast — and could come at the expense of safety.
‘I thought I was going to die’: Nigerian coronavirus … Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi was one of five patients discharged by Nigerian health authorities in Lagos on Monday after recovering from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
These companies are racing to roll out COVID-19 treatments Big Pharma companies and biotechs are racing to come up with an effective treatment for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus. Several high profile companies are working on new experimental vaccines. Drug giant Johnson & Johnson is the latest to announce a promising vaccine candidate, saying on Monday that it plans human testing by September with the hopes of having more […]
‘Cacophony of coughing’: Inside NYC’s virus-besieged … New York City’s hospitals have become the war-zone-like epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus crisis.
Can blood from coronavirus survivors treat the newly … Doctors in China attempted the first COVID-19 treatments using what the history books call “convalescent serum” — today, known as donated plasma — from survivors of the new virus.
Can blood from coronavirus survivors treat the newly … WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospitals are gearing up to test if a century-old treatment used to fight off flu and measles outbreaks in the days before vaccines, and tried more recently against SARS and Ebola, just might work for COVID-19, too: using blood donated from patients who’ve recovered. Doctors in China attempted the first COVID-19 treatments […]
The Latest: Putin visits Moscow hospital in protective … Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Moscow hospital for coronavirus patients and wore a protective suit.
Presidents in health crises: Trump more hands-on … WASHINGTON (AP) — Woodrow Wilson was more focused on the end of World War I than a flu virus that was making its way around the globe, ultimately sickening hundreds of thousands of Americans, including the president himself. George W. Bush stood with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble after the 9/11 attacks on […]
Trump vs Fauci: President’s gut sense collides with … WASHINGTON (AP) — In a clash of gut instinct versus science, President Donald Trump and the government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, publicly sparred over whether a malaria drug would work to treat people with coronavirus disease. Trump clung to his feeling that a malaria drug widely available could be the answer-in-waiting to […]
US coronavirus cases soar past 7,500 as officials … The number of coronavirus cases in the United States keeps jumping each day by the hundreds, pushing health care officials and political leaders to take steps to keep the pandemic from overwhelming the system.