Category: healthcare

Can Covid-19 Be Smelled?

A company is working to develop coronavirus-odor sensors, while researchers are trying to train dogs to detect the disease.

New CDC Guidelines: Test All Newborns With Covid-19 Positive Moms

The CDC calls for testing all newborns for coronavirus if their mother has the illness.

Disneyland Doesn’t Have A Reopening Date (Yet). But Here’s What A Visit Could Look Like.

Required masks, closed attractions, handwashing stations and other precautions could greet fans of the Happiest Place On Earth.

Should You Avoid Public Bathrooms To Remain Coronavirus-Free?

Coronavirus can be spread via fecal-oral transmission, making public bathrooms a potential public enemy in economic reopening.

#PassTheMic Campaign Begins With Julia Roberts Opening Her Social Media Platforms To Dr. Anthony Fauci To Call For Global Coronavirus Response

Some A-list Hollywood celebrities join the ONE World Campaign to call for a global response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meet The MIT PhD Who Just Raised $65 Million For His Clinical Stage Cell Therapy Company

Armon Sharei’s SQZ Biotech announced it raised a $65 Million-Series D round, led by Temasek with participation from another new, US-based fund as well as additional participation from existing investors, including GV, Illumina Ventures, Invus, JDRF T1D…

High Intensity Fitness Classes Linked To Rapid Coronavirus Spread

Contact tracing to find out where some Covid-19 outbreaks started leads South Korea researchers to sports facilities.

Dow Loses 100 Points As Another 2.4 Million Americans File For Unemployment

The market is still on pace for its best week since early April.

Trump Has ‘Legal,’ ‘Moral’ Responsibility To Wear Mask At Ford Plant, Michigan AG Says

“I ask that while you are on tour you respect the great efforts of the men and women at Ford—and across the State—by wearing a facial covering.”

AstraZeneca Receives $1 Billion From U.S. Government To Produce Coronavirus Vaccine

The company says it has secured orders for 400 million doses of the as yet unproven vaccine, to be delivered from this September.