Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration has granted a full approval to Gilead’s COVID-19 drug Veklury, making it the first medicine to win a standard clearance from the agency to treat the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The FDA authorized Veklury for emergency use in May, a declaration that’s only valid during a… Read More »
Universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, in the United States through next spring, scientists reported on Friday. The findings follow an assertion by Dr. Scott W. Atlas, the president’s science adviser, that masks are ineffective, in a tweet later taken down by Twitter for spreading… Read More »
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of healthcare, from worker protections to hospital capacity systems to supply chain management. But the sheer overwhelming nature of the crisis has caused some other important storylines to receive less attention than they would in a pre-pandemic world. Some movement is occurring despite the threat of the… Read More »
Anti-lockdown campaigners have marched through London in protest at Government restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus. Led by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers, demonstrators chanted “stick your poison vaccine up your arse”, “take off your masks” and “we are the 99%” as they walked down Oxford Street, the main shopping street in central London.… Read More »