A doctor who was removed as head of the federal agency that is helping develop a vaccine for the coronavirus said he was ousted after resisting widespread adoption of a drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19.Dr. Rick Bright also said that he believed he was removed from his post because…
CONTINUING COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS By Tim Darnell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution One of the nation’s top vaccine development experts said he was “forced out” of a federal agency, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. SCOOP - Dr. Rick Bright says in statement he was pushed out of BARDA for a narrower, more limited role at NIH…
America is staring down a widespread COVID-19 testing shortage with no vaccine in sight. So what happens when coronavirus makes its unceremonious return?“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” Robert Redfield, director of the Centers…
A vaccine for the coronavirus created by researchers at Oxford University will begin trials on humans in the United Kingdom this week, health officials said Tuesday.During a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock said two vaccines in development by researchers in the U.K. showed notable progress, with…
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine could protect people from severe COVID-19, according to scientists. Researchers at the University of Cambridge said the jab could protect people because the rubella virus has a similar structure to SARS-CoV-2.They pointed out that middle-aged and older people are less likely to have had the jabs, which came out…
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…