In two major COVID-19 developments today, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its mask guidance, urging countries with widespread transmission to encourage mask use in situations where physical distancing [...]
In a rapid communication published yesterday in Eurosurveillance, French researchers report 108 confirmed, probable, or possible cases of a rare multisystem inflammatory syndrome reported around the world in children with COVID-19. And [...]
IntroductionOn May 28th, the Council on Strategic Risks hosted a timely webinar to discuss The Future Bioweapons Threat: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. This webinar brought together a diverse [...]
Test and tracing is launching today but, as the lockdown eases, it will need to be massively stepped up to have a significant impact Credit: [...]
Overview Improvements in water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and wastewater management in all sectors are critical elements of preventing infections and reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as [...]
In an effort to bring an effective COVID-19 vaccine to the US market by 2021, the White House launched Operation Warp Speed (OWS) last month and today named five [...]
Global COVID-19 cases topped 6.5 million today, fueled by brisk activity in Latin American countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, and in hot spots in other parts [...]
Convalescent plasma therapy didn't help 52 seriously ill COVID-19 patients recover in the first known randomized study of its kind, although it was stopped early because of low enrollment. The [...]
The results of an eagerly anticipated randomized controlled trial indicate the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine was ineffective at preventing symptoms of COVID-19 in people after they were exposed to [...]
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 4, 2020: The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition comprised of the world’s preeminent human and animal virologists from 53 Centers of Excellence and 10 [...]
Peter Marks was a natural fit for a new White House project tasked with developing a coronavirus vaccine. The cancer specialist spent nearly a decade at the Food and [...]
Sovereignty, in its most distilled form, is the power to decide who will live and who must die. Both U.S. and U.K. heads of state have increasingly invoked sovereignty [...]
