Monthly Archives: April, 2020

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.CNN host Chris Cuomo’s now-infamous video of his “official reentry” into normal society after recovering from coronavirus has been labeled his “Brian Williams Iraq moment” after critics claimed he wasn’t being truthful."Alright, here it is... the official reentry from the…

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden effectively tied President Trump in new polling of six battleground states released Wednesday. A CNBC/Change Research poll found Mr. Trump leading the former vice president 47.5% to 46.8% across Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The poll surveyed 5,787 likely voters in the six states and…

Germany's Paul-Ehrlich Institut has signed off on a Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating BioNTech's (NASDAQ:BNTX) COVID-19 vaccine program, BNT192, for the prevention of the respiratory infection, the first such study there. The dose escalation portion will enroll ~200 subjects aimed at determining the optimal dose for further studies and assessing initial safety and immunogenicity. The…

SINGAPORE—As governments around the world race to roll out contact-tracing phone apps to fight the coronavirus pandemic, an early experiment in Singapore faces a big hurdle: getting people to sign up. The government-developed app, called TraceTogether, is designed to help authorities identify people with whom a coronavirus patient has been in close contact. Those people,…

COVID-19. University of Louisville researchers have developed a technology that is believed to block the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells. The technology is based on a piece of synthetic DNA – an “aptamer” –  which targets and binds with a human protein called nucleolin. Early tests show that this aptamer may stop viruses,…