Five U.S. agencies have started telling employees they could get Covid vaccine shots in as little as 8 weeks
Vials of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate BNT162b2 are sorted at a Pfizer facility in Puurs, Belgium in an undated...
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WHO tells doctors not to use Gilead’s remdesivir as a coronavirus treatment, splitting with FDA
A lab technicians shows the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment drug "Remdesivir".Amr Abdallah Dalsh | ReutersA World Health Organization panel advised...
CDC urges Americans against traveling for Thanksgiving as coronavirus outbreak worsens
During the global coronavirus pandemica group of people wearing personal protective equipment walk in Tom Bradley international at LAX on...
HHS launches pilot program in five states using rapid Covid test deployed by NBA
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a pilot program with five states to introduce the rapid, point-of-care...
‘Thanksgiving could be a massive superspreader event,’ Rhode Island emergency room doctor says
Dr. Laura Forman, chief of emergency medicine at Rhode Island's Kent Hospital, told CNBC that the coronavirus pandemic has pushed...
Covid vaccine: Former Obama FDA chief says she trusts integrity of the agency’s approval process
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner in the Obama administration, told CNBC on Wednesday that she trusts...
New York City will close schools for in-person learning to curb Covid outbreak, Mayor de Blasio says
A student is seen on the steps of the closed public school PS 139 in the Ditmas Park neighborhood in...
Watch live: U.S. officials speak on Operation Warp Speed after Pfizer releases positive vaccine data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnu-WE3gQlAThe departments of Health and Human Services and Defense are holding a briefing Wednesday on the Trump administration's coronavirus vaccine...
Pfizer says final data analysis shows Covid vaccine is 95% effective – plans to submit to FDA in ‘days’
Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday that a final data analysis found their coronavirus vaccine was 95% effective in preventing Covid-19...
Telling people to wear ‘masks and wash your hands isn’t enough,’ says Biden’s Covid advisory board member
In a Tuesday evening interview on "The News with Shepard Smith," President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisory board member Michael Osterholm...
Bill Gates says more than 50% of business travel will disappear in post-coronavirus world
The coronavirus will fundamentally alter the way people travel for and conduct business, even after the pandemic is over, Microsoft...
Dr. Fauci says the Covid outbreak isn’t a political issue: ‘You can’t run away from the data’
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sits ahead of a Senate Health Education Labor...
Colorado governor urges the federal government ‘to step up’ amid surging Covid cases
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told CNBC that his state "really needs the federal government to step up on the health...
Trump’s Covid vaccine czar says he hopes work is not disrupted by Biden transition: ‘Our focus is to save American lives’
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who oversees the Trump administration's coronavirus vaccine program, told CNBC on Monday he hopes its work to...
Biden team to meet with coronavirus vaccine makers this week as Trump stonewalls transition
President-elect Joe Biden discusses protecting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and his health care plans during a news conference in...
Top Biden health advisor says national lockdown to contain Covid surge is ‘measure of last resort’
Pedestrians wear protective masks while walking along El Paso Street in downtown El Paso, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 9,...
U.S. reports record Covid hospitalizations as states roll out restrictions again
Medical professionals treat a patient infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, November...
‘No rhyme or reason’ why Mississippi governor reversed statewide mask mandate, says Jackson mayor
In a Friday evening interview on "The News with Shepard Smith," Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said, "there doesn't appear...
Oregon orders two-week ‘freeze’ across state amid ‘alarming spike’ in Covid cases and hospitalizations
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Portland, Ore.Cathy Cheney | Portland Business Journal | APOregon Gov....
