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A new diagnostic tool uses CRISPR to detect COVID-19. Getty/Alexander Hassenstein For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. As the coronavirus pandemic has worsened, reliable, accurate and speedy testing to detect COVID-19 has become one of the most important measures for controlling the spread and getting life…

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FLUSHING, Queens (WABC) -- Dozens of residents inside a nursing home in Queens have died from COVID-19 and some fear there could be even more victims.Families are desperate for answers about their loved ones and say the nursing home is stonewalling and refusing to tell them anything.Berna Lee's mother is in Sapphire Center for Rehabilitation…

Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) +10.5% after-hours on news it will receive up to $483M from the U.S. government to accelerate development of a COVID-19 vaccine. The company says the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will fund development of the mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate to licensure with the Food…

Authorities on Thursday were considering evacuating residents from a California nursing home after 156 people tested positive for the coronavirus and 10 died in the largest publicly reported outbreak so far in a California nursing home. The Central Valley care home is one of many “hot spots” still popping up around the state, Gov. Gavin…