NIH begins dosing people with Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine booster shot to see if it protects against the South African variant The NIH has begun clinical trials testing a booster shot of Moderna Inc’s COVID vaccine to see if it will protect against the South African variant Approximately 210 healthy adult volunteers will be enrolled at … Read more
US health officials divided over plasma treatment for COVID-19: NIH panel says the newly FDA-approved treatment touted by Trump makes ‘no difference’ to coronavirus survival odds Convalescent plasma therapy is when the liquid portion of blood is taken from a recovered coronavirus patient It is transferred into a sick patient in hopes they will develop … Read more
As students prepare to head back to school, a new study will be tracking the rate of novel coronavirus spread among children and their families. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) is looking at transmission among nearly 2,000 households across the US. Researchers hope to determine the percentage of children who become … Read more
The US government is investing a cumulative $248.7 million in seven biotech companies making next-generation coronavirus tests, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Friday. Contracts are being awarded through the RADx program, announced in April, after the Trump administration and US health agencies were panned for shortages of and flawed tests. The US is … Read more
NIH officials announce plan to ramp coronavirus testing up to 6 million a DAY by December by building ‘mega-labs’ and developing breathalyzers to detect COVID-19 The National Institutes of Health released a plan on Wednesday to increase coronavirus testing to six million Americans per day by December Currently, about 1.7 million people are tested for … Read more
NIH is gearing up to launch a ‘flurry’ of clinical trials using everything from antibodies to blood thinners in an ‘obsessive’ effort to treat coronavirus patients, director says Dr Francis Collins says the National Institutes of Heath is getting ready to launch dozens of clinical trials looking at coronavirus treatments Some studies will look at … Read more
NIH doses first coronavirus patient in trial of hydroxychloroquine and antibiotic combo touted by Trump in hopes the controversial drug will cut risks of hospitalization and death The NIH has begun a clinical trial testing anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and antibiotic azithromycin in coronavirus patients Patients will either be assigned the experimental treatment or a pair … Read more
Children are capable of transmitting the novel coronavirus, two new international studies claim. Over the course of the pandemic, fewer children compared to adults have fallen ill and, when they are infected, their symptoms are milder. But it’s been unclear if they can spread the virus to adults. Now, researchers in China and Germany say they … Read more
Neo-Nazis stole nearly 25,000 email credentials from the WHO, NIH and Gates Foundation and used them to call for a ‘harassment campaign’ while sharing coronavirus conspiracies Security experts discovered nearly 25,000 email addresses leaked online The credentials belonged to WHO, NIH and the Gates Foundation It appears they were stolen by far-right extremists and posted … Read more