Moderna’s phase 1 data looks positive, but the company’s investigational coronavirus vaccine has a lot more to prove in late-stage trials. Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) has taken another step closer to making its dream of commercializing a coronavirus vaccine a reality. The company just released more detailed interim results from its phase 1 trial -- and they…
If you are sick enough with COVID-19 to be admitted to a hospital intensive care unit, your chances of survival are much better today than they were a few months ago, researchers report in the journal Anaesthesia. The British study analyzed all published research from around the world on COVID-19 ICU deaths among adults, and…
When newscasters announce the latest tally of coronavirus cases, Arthur Hall chuckles and turns to his wife.“Whatever number they say, I’d add one,” he said.Hall is an uncounted survivor of coronavirus.The 51-year-old school administrator spent five days in the hospital with what doctors told him was severe respiratory distress caused by COVID-19. Although he had…
Add to the pandemic lexicon another once-obscure term that’s come into common usage: “herd immunity.” Along with “flatten the curve,” “social distancing” and “super spreader,” it’s a phrase that prior to COVID-19 was casually uttered mainly by epidemiologists and public health officials. But while the meanings of those other terms are now clear to many,…
Teams of military doctors, nurses and other health care specialists are being deployed to eight California hospitals facing staffing shortages amid a record-breaking surge of coronavirus cases across the state.The Air Force, at California's request, assigned 160 people to increase capacity in intensive care units. Some teams arrived this week, including 20 people each to…