Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, on Wednesday said the Chinese consulate in Houston is basically a front for a massive spy operation after the State Department ordered the consulate to close. “So this consulate is basically a front. … It’s kind of [the] central node of a massive spy operation — commercial espionage, defense espionage…
New research could mean the market opportunity for COVID-19 vaccines might be bigger than expected. Or maybe not. New twists and turns continue to come in the scramble to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Last week, Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) reported more great results from a phase 1 study of its vaccine candidate mRNA-1273. This week, medical journal…
Surging COVID-19 outbreaks in several states are straining testing capacity across the country as people wait several days or even weeks to get their results back, causing another setback to the U.S. response to the months-long pandemic.Lengthy turnaround times are undermining the fight against the coronavirus, experts say, making efforts to trace contacts of confirmed…
Scientists have known for several months the new coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no proof that these tiny particles are infectious.A new study by scientists at the University of Nebraska that was uploaded to a medical preprint site this week has…