STAT’s Helen Branswell writes that heavy hearts soared Monday with news that Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate — the frontrunner in the […]
May 2020
Category: Bio-Defense Network Team
May 2020
The Trump administration’s order ends deployments on June 24, just one day before thousands would qualify for education and retirement […]
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May 2020
A pilot contact tracing program is launching in St. Clair and Lake counties, the governor announced Monday. Jonah Meadows reports […]
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May 2020
About 50 Yale students have become members of a contact-tracing brigade charged with notifying people who may have been exposed […]
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May 2020
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have […]
May 2020
Even as Elmhurst faced “apocalyptic” conditions, 3,500 beds were free in other New York hospitals, some no more than 20 […]
Read More… from One Hospital Was Besieged by the Virus. Nearby Was ‘Plenty of Space.’
May 2020
STAT’s Andrew Joseph writes that even before President Trump started plugging chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatments, enthusiasm for the […]
Read More… from Utah went all-in on an unproven Covid-19 treatment, then scrambled to course-correct
May 2020
Physician Gabriel Felix writes in STAT that the Covid-19 pandemic is putting me in a difficult position as a physician […]
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May 2020
STAT’s Lev Facher reports the Trump administration on Friday rolled out a hyper-ambitious plan to develop and manufacture hundreds of […]
May 2020
CNN reports that Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of a key federal office charged with developing medical countermeasures, will […]