A federal judge has denied a request from Martin Shkreli — the former pharmaceutical executive widely disdained as "pharma bro" — to be released from prison so he can work on a coronavirus treatment.
Scientists are pursuing multiple tracks of research in the quest for an effective treatment to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. One pathway showing some early promise involves llamas. A new study shows that antibodies from llamas can neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19.
Jack McMorrow, 14, awoke in agony, with heart failure. His case may help doctors understand a frightening new affliction in children linked to the coronavirus. When a sprinkling of a reddish rash appeared on Jack McMorrow’s hands in mid-April, his father figured the 14-year-old was overusing hand sanitizer — not a bad thing during a global pandemic.
Barack Obama has attacked the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic during speeches to graduating students. The comments on Saturday were a rare rebuke of a sitting president from one of his predecessors, and come in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 88,000 people in the United States, a death toll far higher than any other country, and had devastating and disproportionate effects on communities of color.
Coronavirus hospitalizations have declined in many states — another indication that social distancing has been effective at curbing the virus' spread. Why it matters: Hospitalizations are an important metric to watch to gauge the severity of the outbreak, especially because testing shortfalls have skewed some other measurements. Those numbers aren't falling everywhere, and any approach to reopening needs to be carefully managed to prevent them from spiking yet again.
The mysterious, COVID-related illness in children is spiking enough that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are issuing an emergency alert to physicians on what symptoms to look for. Currently, 17 states have reported cases of what experts are calling a “multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children” (MIS-C).