A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Edward R. Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia on April 23, 2020. Tami Chappell | AFP | Getty Images The federal government is working with local health departments to begin testing coronavirus sewage systems in an effort to catch the …
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The top Chicago official said Tuesday that the city will not release any of its coronavirus restrictions until one metric in particular drops. That number is the daily average number of new cases, Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr Allison Arwady told a news conference, pointing to a metric …
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For the past A few years, until the pandemic hit, Bill Ristenpart, a chemical engineer at UC Davis (and coffee-geek at the next level) had brought a team of researchers and boxes of expensive instruments across the country to New York City each summer and into the lab of Nicole …
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Despite the urgency of beating COVID-19, health officials may delay the development of an effective vaccine. Authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere have yet to authorize an ethical charge investigation procedure called “trials with human challenge.” Challenge tests deliberately involve volunteers with the disease – which explains the official retention …
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MANILA – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that it was concerned that the new spread of coronavirus was being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of whom were unaware that they were infected, a danger to vulnerable groups. WHO officials said this month …
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