BREAKING NEWS: North Korea fires gunshots towards South Korea South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staffs said in a statement that North Korea had fired a series of gunshots towards the country early Sunday The shots were fired towards a guard post in South Korea South Korea said it responded by firing two shots back towards North … Read more
The antiviral remdesivir has shown promise for treating coronavirus, and the head of the drug’s maker, Gilead Sciences, said he’s committed to ensuring anyone who needs the drug will have access to it. ‘We’re going to work very closely with the government and with health care systems to make sure that it’s accessible, that it’s … Read more
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the FDA has approved the experimental drug remdesivir for emergency use in hospitalized coronavirus patients. It is the first drug shown to help fight the disease, which has killed more than 64,000 people in the United States. Gilead’s chief executive officer Daniel O’Day, whose company produces remdesivir joined President Trump, … Read more
The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Friday called on Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to testify to the panel about allegations that the online retailer uses data from its own third-party sellers to create competing products. In a letter to Bezos signed by Democratic and Republican members of the panel, the lawmakers referred to … Read more
Joe Biden on Friday denied a sexual assault allegation made against him by a former member of his Senate staff, making his first public statement on an issue that has become a weight on his presidential campaign. The former vice president released a lengthy public statement and spent 20 minutes of live interview on ‘Morning … Read more
Tower Bridge is reopened after being shut down by armed police over discovery of ‘suspicious package’ By James Robinson for MailOnline Published: 13:13 BST, 1 May 2020 | Updated: 13:26 BST, 1 May 2020 London’s Tower Bridge has reopened after it was sealed off by armed police following reports of a suspicious package. Officers cordoned … Read more
Gilead Sciences said that it has capacity to make enough doses of its drug remdesivir for ‘several million treatment courses’ next year in a Thursday press release announcing its first quarter earnings. ‘As Gilead continues to work with international partners to expand production, Gilead announced it anticipates more than one million treatment courses will be … Read more
On the heels of an early announcement that coronavirus patients given Gilead’s Ebola drug remdesivir fared better than those who didn’t get the treatment, the company’s CEO, Daniel O’Day, deemed the results a cause for ‘hope at a time when it is badly needed,’ in an open letter obtained by Fox News. ‘Positive data’ from … Read more
More than 30 million Americans have now lost their jobs in the six weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began as the US economy slides further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s. There were 3.8 million new claims for unemployment benefits filed last week, according to the latest Labor Department figures … Read more
The US may approve emergency use of an Ebola drug today after one Oxford academic hailed its trial as a ‘fantastic result’ in the fight against COVID-19. Remdesivir, an antiviral made by California-based Gilead Sciences, was shown to slash recovery times in a global trial of more than 1,000 patients, including Britons. Anthony Fauci, America’s top … Read more