Monthly Archives: July, 2020

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) exits a Senate GOP lunch ... [+] meeting in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lawmaker and Trump administration officials are in negotiations about the phase 3 coronavirus stimulus bill, which leaders say they hope to…

Published: July 20, 2020 at 4:13 a.m. ET Shares of Enzymatica ENZY, +65.92% jumped 67% in Stockholm as the company said preliminary results show the ability of the mouth spray ColdZyme, in vitro, to deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. The study demonstrated that ColdZyme deactivates SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by 98.3%, the company said.…

(Reuters) - Synairgen Plc (SYNG.L) said on Monday its drug helped reduce the risk of severe cases in hospitalised patients with COVID-19, according to data from a trial of more than 100 people in the United Kingdom, sending its shares skyrocketing. The trial, which used interferon beta, showed that patients who were given Synairgen’s formulation…

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has signed deals to secure 90 million doses of two possible COVID-19 vaccines from an alliance of Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.F), and French group Valneva (VLS.PA), the business ministry said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: A logo of American pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer Inc., is pictured in Toluca, Mexico October 1,…

The coronavirus exposed European countries’ misplaced confidence in faulty models, bureaucratic busywork and their own wealth.By David D. Kirkpatrick, Matt Apuzzo and Selam GebrekidanJuly 20, 2020LONDON — Prof. Chris Whitty, Britain’s chief medical adviser, stood before an auditorium in a London museum two years ago cataloging deadly epidemics.From the Black Death of the 14th century…