Two new clinical trials will begin this week testing plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 on people who have been exposed to the virus, or are in the early stages of the disease. Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are leading the trials, which will take place there and at 15 other sites across the country.
On updated guidance, the CDC acknowledged an inability to accurately determine if individuals had been infected with COVID-19 via antibody tests; if the test is used in a population where prevalence is low, it's possible that "less than half of those testing positive will truly have antibodies."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The author of a federal report that found U.S. hospitals faced severe shortages of coronavirus test supplies says she is not intimidated by criticism from President Donald Trump, even after he moved to replace her as chief watchdog of HHS.
When President Trump took office in 2017, his team stopped work on new federal regulations that would have forced the health care industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic such as COVID-19. That decision is documented in federal records reviewed by NPR.
The pop-up field hospital officials created within Boston’s cavernous Seaport convention center stopped taking admissions Tuesday, signaling the state’s and city’s willingness to move away from the wartime footing it put the region on to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The Justice Department is closing its inquiries into stock selloffs by Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that occurred after the lawmakers were briefed about the coronavirus' potential economic toll, the Wall Street Journal first reported.