Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has been optimistic about a vaccine arriving in late 2020 or early 2021, but he has also warned the public about their expectations …
Read More »NYC Councilman credits hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 recovery
A New York Democratic city council member says hydroxychloroquine saved his life after an almost fatal crash with COVID-19 in March. Paul Vallone, who represents the northeast of Queens, took the drug along with a standard flu Z-pack, and came back from the edge almost immediately. ‘I could not breathe, …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson Initiates Human Vaccine Trials After Monkey Study
Johnson & Johnson began human trials of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, after the shooting has already proven successful in protecting monkeys, the drug maker announced. The company’s honchos pointed to a new study that found that five out of six primates who received the single dose were protected …
Read More »The three key obstacles to eliminating a coronavirus vaccine
Vaccines have transformed the world, saving hundreds of millions of lives. They are also by far our best hope for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. Our other options to stop the disease are to stay apart, which hurts our economy and society, or to build a “collective immunity” through natural infection, …
Read More »United States Pledges $ 2.1 Billion to Glaxo, Sanofi for Coronavirus Vaccine
The United States government will pay $ 2.1 billion to drug makers Glaxo and Sanofi for the production of COVID-19 vaccines for up to 50 million people, tests and treatments, the companies announced on Friday. The largest grant awarded under the Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed,” the White House initiative …
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