Would you volunteer to be infected with Covid-19?

Oscar Tarpey is in the prime of life. Aged just 21, he is looking forward to many years of good health and happiness. Yet four weeks ago, the insurance worker from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, did something that could seriously jeopardise that. He volunteered to risk his own life by signing up to clinical trials for a vaccine … Read more

Donald Trump claims U.S. would have fewer coronavirus cases if it stopped testing

President Donald Trump blamed a rise in coronavirus cases on the increased testing being done, saying if it stopped, ‘we’d have very few cases, if any.’ ‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,’ Trump said at a roundtable discussion on the health of America’s seniors at the White House. … Read more

Sinovac vaccine triggered an immune response in more than 90% of patients in early human tests

New hope for a coronavirus vaccine as Chinese company Sinovac’s shot triggered an antibody response in more than 90% of patients, early data suggests Sinovac Biotech Ltd, based in Beijing, China, has developed a vaccine called CoronaVac that uses a dead strain of the coronavirus Phase I tested safety, with none of the participants reporting … Read more

Antibody drug shows promise for treating severe COVID-19 patients

Nearly 92 percent of patients severely ill and hospitalized with coronavirus were discharged after they were treated with an antibody drug, new data reveals.   The Mayo Clinic study was small, but the improvements were considerable, and rapid. Ten out of 12 patients went from needing some form of oxygen support to discharged from the hospital within … Read more