Latino groups set high expectations for Biden’s DHS … EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Much like his boss — President-elect Joe Biden — Alejandro Mayorkas should step into a new job next January preceded by high hopes and facing even higher expectations.
State epidemiologist Dr. Raoult Ratard passes away “Dr. Ratard was a force within the Department of Health and our whole region,”
Late-stage study of first single-shot vaccine begins … Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus.
‘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 […]
What is Regeneron’s antibody cocktail? Here’s what … WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump remains “fatigued” after contracting COVID-19 and has been injected with an experimental antibody cocktail for the virus that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and spread to the highest reaches of the U.S. government. Trump’s physician, Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, revealed on Friday the commander-in-chief […]
‘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.
Could coronavirus be sexually transmitted? (CNN) — The new coronavirus can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday. A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January […]
DeSantis downplayed coronavirus help from New York … Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly downplayed New York’s role in providing his state with shipments of an antiviral drug to help combat the coronavirus pandemic after a staffer in The Sunshine State’s health department had privately praised the assistance.
Fauci to tell House panel pandemic ‘will likely continue … There’s no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top government health experts will tell Congress on Friday.
Port of New Orleans statement on coronavirus precautions On Tuesday, the Port of New Orleans released a statement detailing the precautions that are being taken against spread of the coronavirus.
LSU Sociology Professor Wesley Shrum receives NSF … BATON ROUGE – Wesley M. Shrum Jr., professor in the LSU Department of Sociology, was awarded a $100,218 grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to study the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19. The grant, titled “A Comparative Study of How Context Shapes Responses to COVID-19,” will examine the role of exposure […]
1.4 million seek jobless aid as virus keeps forcing … More than 1.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, further evidence of the devastation the coronavirus outbreak has unleashed on the U.S. economy.