A laboratory technician visually inspects a vial filled with remdesivir of the investigational coronavirus disease drug (COVID-19) at a Gilead Sciences facility in La Verne, California. Gilead Sciences | via REUTERS Gilead Sciences sales fell 10% in the second quarter from a year earlier, as the coronavirus pandemic weakened demand …
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the Trump Administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, at Capitol Hill, Washington, DC on June 23, 2020. Kevin Dietsch | Pool via Reuters The Food and Drug Administration would authorize a …
Read More »Pharmacists Compete to Build Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Chains
Pharmaceutical companies competing to develop coronavirus vaccines are already working behind the scenes to build the supply chains necessary to deliver their drugs to billions of people as quickly as possible. To meet global demand once a vaccine is approved, a complicated and high-risk supply chain would be put in …
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Stress and fear of COVID-19 can take its toll. Melissa Rein Lively, the woman who was filmed destroying a mask in early July on a Target TGT, + 1.18% in Scottsdale, Arizona, and posted it on social media, says he spent a week at a mental health center after the …
Read More »In just a few days, Vietnam goes from virus-free paradise to panic
HANOI (Reuters) – There were so few cases of coronavirus in Vietnam that each patient was known by a number: Patient 17 brought the virus from Europe after an initial wave of Wuhan infections. Patient 91, a British pilot, almost died. Medical specialists wearing protective suits collect blood samples from …
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