Next week, the National Institutes of Health will launch an unprecedented effort to find a COVID-19 vaccine. The director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, plays a critical role in that effort, dubbed "Operation Warp Speed." The operation aims to deliver 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021.Collins joined "CBS Evening News"…
It has been 14 days since Aaron Weeks was tested for COVID-19, and he still doesn't have his test results."What's the point?" asked Weeks, 31, of Brooklyn, New York.Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreakHe got tested after a close contact was diagnosed with COVID-19. Even though Weeks never felt sick, people without symptoms can spread…
New treatment options for covid-19 could arrive months before even the most optimistic timeline for a vaccine, senior Trump administration officials said at a briefing Monday. But demand could outstrip supply if the pandemic continues to rage, creating a national tug of war over limited doses.“Vaccines are the permanent hope for controlling this outbreak, but…
An Italian woman driving a Ford Focus down a coastal highway received a ticket for going hundreds of miles an hour over the limit after a speed camera malfunctioned and police failed to pick up on the error, according to a local report.The camera recorded her speed at 703 kmph, or almost 437 mph, according…
Patrick Soon-Shiong hopes an experimental COVID-19 vaccine from his companies will prove its worth in monkeys. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jon CohenJun. 1, 2020 , 1:00 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. The race for a COVID-19 vaccine has a dark horse entrant. Billionaire scientist and businessman Patrick Soon-Shiong…
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…