Rapid corona testing is playing an increasingly important role in containing the pandemic everywhere – even though the first vaccines are now in sight. The medical technology company nal von minden GmbH from Moers, Germany, is therefore doubling its production: 40 million rapid antigen tests are already being produced in November. By January, this figure… Read More »
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A BioNTech laboratory in Mainz, GermanyMarzena Skubatz/laif/Camera Press Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 11 November EU confirms deal to buy up to 300 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine candidate The… Read More »
An estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers have had COVID-19 — six times the official count, a study released Tuesday suggests. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also found the coronavirus was circulating through the five boroughs “long before” the first recorded case, the study published in Nature states. An estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers have had… Read More »
Carlos Del Rio, MD, professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore Harry Heiman, MD, clinical associate professor of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences at Georgia State University, Atlanta Tom Frieden, MD, president and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives, New… Read More »