As disagreements pile up over easing COVID-19 restrictions and reopening businesses, scientists are racing to gauge how many people have truly been infected. Among other reasons, measuring the pandemic’s spread can clarify how deadly the disease is and how many people are presumably immune to it, which is crucial for anticipating future waves of the…
crackdown — Regulatory "flexibility" was never meant to allow fraud, agency says. Beth Mole - May 5, 2020 10:46 pm UTC Enlarge / MAY 4, 2020: A health worker handles a blood sample on the first day of a free COVID-19 antibody testing event. After a gush of bogus coronavirus blood tests, the US Food…
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Health Secretary Matt Hancock arrives at 10 Downing Street on 1 May 2020Alberto Pezzali/AP/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 6 pm on 1 May UK government hits 100,000 daily tests target by including unanalysed tests UK health secretary Matt Hancock said that the…
An illustration shows spiky antigens studding the virus's outer coat. Tests under development that look for these antigens might be faster than PCR tests for diagnosing COVID-19, proponents say. But the tests might still need PCR-test confirmation. Sergii Iaremenko/Science Photo Library/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sergii Iaremenko/Science Photo Library/Getty Images An illustration shows spiky…
By Amy Graff, SFGATE Published 8:27 am PDT, Wednesday, April 29, 2020 A medical professional administers a coronavirus (covid-19) test at a drive thru testing location conducted by staffers from University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) in the parking lot of the Bolinas Fire Department April 20, 2020 in Bolinas, California. The town of…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out