Published on May 20, 2020Researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston say their studies on monkeys suggest recovering from COVID-19 could give immunity from reinfection. At Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, researchers believe they’ve discovered the “Achilles heel” of the virus.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNewsNBC News…
Around the world, more than 100 coronavirus vaccine candidates are in development, as the need for a pandemic panacea grows ever more desperate. Here are updates from three promising experimental immunizations — two with Philadelphia roots. Thomas Jefferson University on Wednesday announced it has signed an exclusive deal with the global vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech…
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…