When we first started to write about COVID-19 in March, it seemed like the pandemic would be a time-limited event. That was before everything shut down. Now it is fairly clear that many parts of the world will be dealing with COVID-19 for the foreseeable future and that this pandemic will continue to affect the… Read More »
(Reuters) – In the fight against COVID-19, the decades-old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political football, with U.S. President Donald Trump personally taking it and hailing it as a “game changer,” to the derision of critics. FILE PHOTO: Researcher Cody Hoffmann checks the results of an automated liquid handler as researchers begin a trial… Read More »
Beyoncé in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has been swift and consistent in her response to the coronavirus pandemic. This week, she shared a new video of the mobile COVID-19 testing sites she and mother Tina Knowles-Lawson set up in their hometown of Houston, Texas. READ MORE: Beyoncè, Megan Thee… Read More »
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Prime minister Boris Johnson during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London on 6 May. Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 6 May UK coronavirus official death toll passes 30,000 – the second highest in the world The UK… Read More »
SATURDAY, May 2, 2020 — As the U.S. coronavirus death toll neared 65,000 on Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved emergency use of the first drug that seems to boost recovery among COVID-19 patients. Remdesivir, Gilead Sciences’ intravenous antiviral medication, is to be used for hospitalized patients with “severe disease,” such as those… Read More »