May 18, 2020 Charleston engineer teams up with boat builder to develop new safety device to protect coronavirus workers Charleston, S.C., residents Rob Harding, an engineer and David Johnson, a boat maker from the region’s low country, have teamed up to build protective intubation boxes for health care workers performing the high-risk procedure on COVID-19 patients.
May 15, 2020 COVID-19 antibody treatment could be effective, but won't replace vaccine, medical experts say A California-based biotech company said Friday that they believe they have a cure for the coronavirus in the form of an antibody that provides "100 [percent] inhibition" but the road to getting it to market may be an arduous one.
May 15, 2020 California biopharmaceutical company claims coronavirus antibody breakthrough A California-based biopharmaceutical company claims to have discovered an antibody that could shield the human body from the coronavirus and flush it out of a person’s system within four days, Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ has exclusively learned.
May 13, 2020 Coronavirus puts vet's respiratory issues caused by burn pits to the test For veteran Megan Kingston, the coronavirus presented extra danger due to her exposure to the smoke that emanated day and night from the burn pits near her barracks at Camp Liberty in Iraq. "The odds were not in my favor," Kingston, of Northern Virginia, says to Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ regarding her recent exposure to COVID-19. "We were all kind of like going, how did I even pull this one-off? It's a miracle for sure."
May 12, 2020 Coronavirus leads America's second largest nurses' union to buy $3 million in PPE The nation's second largest nurses' union purchased nearly $3 million in personal protective equipment for its members.
May 8, 2020 Ohio lawmakers hope for bipartisan reform of prison system stressed by COVID-19 Ohio lawmakers, lobbyists and researchers of various political stripes are finding a common cause in prison reform.
May 8, 2020 'Every other day, I think I have coronavirus': Pandemic throws up new challenges for NYC paramedics During the height of the coronavirus crisis in New York City, the 911 emergency system was flooded with more calls than on Sept. 11th, 2001, and paramedics and EMS workers tried valiantly to save lives.Â
May 8, 2020 Coronavirus relief from community banks saving small businesses If you are a small business owner looking for help making payroll during the Coronavirus pandemic, you may want to try your luck with a smaller community bank. As the second round of Personal Paycheck Protection (PPP) loans are being doled out by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs who are dealing with smaller community banks and credit unions are seeing their loans much more quickly than those applying through larger banks.
May 5, 2020 Coronavirus and cyberattacks: 2020 campaigns already being hacked, experts warn President Trump signed an executive order to protect the power grid from hackers last week, but one expert is warning that the 2020 campaign cycle has already suffered cyberattacks.
May 4, 2020 Possible coronavirus vaccine enters human testing trial Progress is being made towards a viable vaccine for the coronavirus say researchers at a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical company. Inovio Pharmaceuticals along with the University of Pennsylvania’s research facility, the Wistar Institute have been working on the vaccine as early as this past January. Originally reported by Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ, the vaccine was fast-tracked into development after the Chinese Government made the genome sequencing of COVID-19 public.Â