Progress is being made towards a viable vaccine for the coronavirus say researchers at a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical company. Inovio Pharmaceuticals along with the University of Pennsylvania’s research facility, the Wistar Institute have been working on the vaccine as early as this past January. Originally reported by Fox News, the vaccine was fast-tracked into development after the Chinese Government made the genome sequencing of COVID-19 public.
The first two coronavirus patients in New Jersey to undergo experimental plasma treatments are now recovering from the virus, according to the hospital where they are being treated.
Cuomo has emphasized the importance of both diagnostic and antibody testing, as well as contact tracing before opening up the state to non-essential businesses.
Secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on ventilators, according to a death penalty expert and a doctor who's behind the request.
With dozens of questions swirling around immunity as the coronavirus epidemic endures in the U.S., at least one being is safe from the virus: The Tooth Fairy, according to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, that is.
When one is struck by the coronavirus, symptoms can range from none to fatal. But for the many million in between who are infected by the novel pathogen and then recover, just how damaging are the lingering effects?
Police in Westport, Conn., said they will be testing a "pandemic drone" that can scan the body temperatures of residents to determine if they have fevers or other health symptoms in an effort to combat the coronavirus.
The arrest of an Idaho mother who allegedly refused to leave a playground area closed by the coronavirus pandemic sparked an additional protest that saw a large crowd descend on city hall Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
An Ohio father of two children died from the coronavirus last week after previously claiming the outbreak was "Bulls---" and a "Political Ploy," according to reports.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that a second wave of coronavirus could coincide with the start of flu season, proving to be even more devastating than the enduring COVID-19 pandemic.
Doctors in Philadelphia, Penn., voiced cautious optimism in coronavirus plasma transfusion therapy after a young COVID-19 patient successfully recovered.
