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The World Health Organization has changed its advice when it comes to wearing facemasks.  They say the masks should be worn in public where social distancing is not possible, and that they [...]

Today in a statement from The Lancet, three of the authors of a study that claimed the malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine, is unsafe have retracted their statements.  Hydroxychloroquine has [...]

According to a survey of 124 families in Beijing published in BMJ Global Health, masks were 79% effective at halting spread of the virus if at least one person in the home started wearing a face [...]

Novavax (NVAX) – Novavax, an American vaccine development company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, announced today that they are planning to launch trials in humans of their experimental [...]

In a study by infectious disease experts in Singapore, researchers announced Covid-19 patients were no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test positive.  [...]

The Malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine is again the news because the President of the United States has announced he is regularly taking the drug in an attempt to protect against Covid-19.  The [...]

Italian researchers are claiming to have developed a vaccine that is able to neutralize severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in animal cells. The company Takis Biotech [...]

The experimental vaccine from Moderna we touched on in a previous post now has test results from human trials.  It has shown promising early signs that is can help the immune system respond [...]

Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom, has noted that the two largest factors in the spread of the virus are close contact and crowding in closed [...]

Posted to BBC News today, it was announced that six Rhesus Macaque Monkeys tested with positive results to a vaccine for Covid-19.  This vaccine’s trials took place here in the US and [...]