When talking about Covid-19 vaccine development efforts during a press conference today at the Rose ... [+] Garden, U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned that "they've come up with the AIDS vaccine." There was one major problem with the statement. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Getty Images Today, at a press conference in the Rose Garden,…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday falsely suggested that scientists have developed a vaccine for AIDS, the late stage of HIV infection in which the virus badly damages the immune system."They've come up with the AIDS vaccine," Trump said during a press conference on police reform, referring to scientists. "As you know, there's various things, and now…
June 14, 2020Updated 6:27 p.m. ETThe coronavirus won’t be loosening its grip on the United States any time soon, leading infectious disease experts said on Sunday. They are also uncertain how the viral spread will be affected by the patchwork of states reopening businesses and by large events like protests and President Trump’s upcoming campaign…
President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed testing as the reason for documented spikes in the number of COVID-19 cases across the U.S. — but data and public health experts attribute the surge to the easing of lockdown restrictions just weeks ago."By the way, when you do more testing, you have more cases. We have more…
President Donald Trump sparked controversy calling it a "great day" for George Floyd during a televised White House briefing.The White House called such an interpretation "false".Joe Biden lashed out at Trump for invoking Floyd's name, calling it "despicable."President Donald Trump sparked controversy on Friday, calling it a "great day" for George Floyd, the man whose…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara