World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Wednesday that trials for two potential therapeutics to fight the Ebola Bundibugyo virus would begin next week.
President Joe Biden’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, reportedly violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, according to a Business Insider analysis of her financial disclosure documents.
Delhi police have “arrested more than 90 people” in recent weeks for selling or attempting to sell medical supplies including oxygen and antiviral drugs to families of coronavirus patients at exorbitant prices, the Hindustan Times reported Thursday.
India’s health ministry on Sunday banned the export of the antiviral drug Remdesivir and its active pharmaceutical ingredients after a recent surge in new Chinese coronavirus cases across India caused a “spike in demand” for the drug.
Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-LA) has been moved to the intensive care unit at a hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, as he continues to battle the coronavirus.
WASHINGTON (AP) — FDA approves remdesivir, the first drug for treating COVID-19.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump for setting a “poor example” by returning to the White House so quickly after undergoing three days of treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus.
“Although he might not be entirely out of the woods yet, the team and I agree that all of our evaluations and most importantly his clinical status support the president’s safe return home,” Dr. Sean Conley said in a press conference with reporters outside the hospital.
“President Trump continues to do well, having made substantial progress since diagnosis,” Conley wrote in a memo released to reporters.
White House physician Sean Conley provided an update on President Donald Trump’s health late Friday, stating that the president is “doing very well” and undergoing Remdesivir therapy.
CLAIM: President Donald Trump “removed regulatory barriers” for coronavirus patients.
Iranian state media said on Sunday a locally-produced coronavirus medication will be available for purchase on store shelves just three weeks from now.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that America will likely develop a vaccine for the coronavirus by the end of 2020.
“What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus,” he said.
Gilead Science’s experimental antiviral medicine remdesivir is reportedly showing promise for the treatment of people plagued with the novel coronavirus, with nearly all patients in a closely monitored clinical trial at a Chicago hospital discharged in just days, an early assessment of data released this week revealed.
Swedes with severe confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have been treated with an experimental medicine used to treat Ebola.
