Patrick Soon-Shiong hopes an experimental COVID-19 vaccine from his companies will prove its worth in monkeys. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jon CohenJun. 1, 2020 , 1:00 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. The race for a COVID-19 vaccine has a dark horse entrant. Billionaire scientist and businessman Patrick Soon-Shiong…
On its face, the website had all the markings of a World Health Organization page. It was seeking donations to help the WHO fight the coronavirus scourge. Even the domain name suggested it was run by a nonprofit. It was so good that when it was reported to special agents at Homeland Security Investigations’ Cyber…
On Thursday evening, Donald Trump took to the dais in the White House press briefing room and declared that he was leading America in a “historic battle against the invisible enemy” that amounted to the “greatest national mobilisation since world war two”. Warming to his theme, the US president said the country was now ready…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…