Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A team of researchers in California found that the number of coronaviruses cases in one county may actually be up to 85 times higher than the what health officials have tallied, and say their data may help better estimate the virus’…
Covid-19 patients at Lenox Hill who are not on the verge of dying receive a five-day regimen of hydroxychloroquine, the long-used malaria drug that President Trump has repeatedly promoted as a “what have you got to lose” remedy. While his own top health officials are more cautious — noting there is limited evidence about the…
Everyone says more testing is the key to understanding—and ending—the coronavirus pandemic. And it is—but it needs to be done right. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images. It is fair to say that every one of us would like to see progress against COVID-19 and toward a return…
Media AdvisoryFriday, April 17, 2020 Vaccine neutralizes multiple MERS-CoV strains. Colorized transmission electron micrograph showing particles of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus that emerged in 2012. NIAID What An investigational vaccine called ChAdOx1 MERS protected two groups of rhesus macaques from disease caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). MERS-CoV is a relative…