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President Donald Trump said Sunday that U.S. regulators have given an emergency use authorization for a coronavirus treatment involving blood plasma donated by people who have recovered from the disease. “This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very, very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection,” […]
Covid-19 is easily the most severe global health emergency ever declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), its leader has said. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he would reconvene the WHO’s emergency committee this week for a review. There have been five other global health emergencies: Ebola (two outbreaks), Zika, polio and swine flu. More […]
James Park, chief executive officer of Fitbit Inc. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Fitbit, which makes wearable devices including fitness-trackers, is shifting its supply chain to make emergency-use ventilators, CEO James Park told CNBC. The company is submitting its technology to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the coming days, Park said. […]
This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. Global cases: More than 3.4 million Global deaths: More than 243,600 Most cases reported: United States (more than 1.1 million), Spain (over 216,500), Italy (over 209,300), United Kingdom (over 183,000), France […]
The Food and Drug Administration has granted an anticipated emergency use authorization to a drug that may be able to treat patients with Covid-19. The agency said Friday that it had given the EUA to Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir for adult and pediatric patients hospitalized with suspected or laboratory-confirmed severe Covid-19. Although shares of the Foster […]
President Donald Trump and the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it has approved the experimental drug remdesivir for treating coronavirus patients who require hospitalization. The drug is administered intravenously once a day for up to 10 days and is believed to help patients recover faster. Its manufacturer, Gilead Sciences, plans to donate 1.1 […]
Medical workers swab patients for Covid-19 at the drive-in center at ProHealth Care on March 21 in Jericho, New York. More than a month after they first announced plans to offer Covid-19 tests in parking lots, the heads of several retailers returned to the White House Rose Garden to promise more testing sites. When President […]
Hospitals began to see some relief last week when the Department of Health and Human Services began distributing $ 30 billion in emergency funding. But the first round of funds failed to consider hospitals that had been hardest hit by Covid-19, instead distributing the dollars based on Medicare revenue. This means that hospitals in New […]
Heather, an emergency nurse of seven years, described her medical department in Southern California as a “war zone.” She works in one of the busiest emergency departments in Los Angeles County, but this week things were more intense for patients than usual. It starts even before anyone even enters the hospital, Heather said. (She asked […]
Democrats hoping to pass an emergency paid sick leave bill to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus were stymied by Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) tried to speed the measure up for a vote on the Senate floor through a procedural maneuver, but an objection from Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) prevented […]
The government has outlined emergency legislation to tackle coronavirus, including measures to allow people to leave their jobs and volunteer to care for those affected. Proposals would also allow court cases to be heard via video links. It comes ahead of an expected move from the UK’s “containment” phase of the outbreak response to “delay”. […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency on Saturday as the number of novel coronavirus cases surge across the US. Twenty more people in New York have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 76. Cuomo said there are 11 confirmed […]
Members of Congress introduced a bill Friday that would assure U.S. workers can take paid sick leave, if needed, during the coronavirus outbreak. The legislation proposed by Democrats would require employers to grant workers 14 paid sick days to be used in the event of a public health emergency. Workers would separately accrue up to […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device California has declared a state of emergency after announcing its first coronavirus death, bringing the US death toll from the disease to 11. The 71-year-old man had underlying health conditions and had been on a cruise ship, said officials. Eleven passengers and 10 crew members are potentially infected […]
Faced with a rising death toll and mounting concern across the country, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping bill to provide $ 8.3 billion in emergency aid to combat the threat of the novel coronavirus. The funding package, which includes $ 2.2 billion to help with prevention and response efforts and more than $ […]