FDA authorizes Moderna COVID-19 vaccine; McKesson, US Army to help roll out millions of doses to augment national supply. Dispersal of Moderna Inc.’s (Cambridge MA) COVID-19 vaccine to more than… Read more »
Pfizer sees data for COVID-19 vaccine’s efficacy by end of October. Amid the frantic race for a COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer may have early efficacy results in just a matter of weeks. During a digital event Thursday,… Read more »
COVID-19 cases surge in US, elsewhere, with no end in sight; mask wearing, school openings still contentious. Divided Americans clashed anew over mask mandates and the reopening of schools on… Read more »
WHO warns coronavirus pandemic accelerating in 81 countries, especially the Americas; California orders residents to wear masks outside. The world has entered a “new and dangerous phase” of the coronavirus… Read more »
CDC issues detailed reopening guidance after initial rejection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gently released more detailed guidance for schools, businesses, transit systems and other industries hoping to… Read more »
Quarrel flares up between White House and the CDC over reopening guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly found its suggestions for fighting the coronavirus outbreak taking… Read more »
One after another, states are ordering residents to mainly stay indoors; Fauci says efforts to contain spread of coronavirus are “working.” More US states are enacting strict stay-at-home orders to slow… Read more »
More than eight months after the White House first asked for it, Congress has finally agreed on some funding to help fight the Zika virus and study its effects. President… Read more »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has shifted $81 million in funds from other projects to continue work on developing vaccines to fight the Zika virus in the absence of… Read more »
