Radical shift in COVID-19 testing needed to reopen schools and businesses, researchers say Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Even as the United States ramped up coronavirus testing from about 100,000 per week… Continue Reading →
U.S. To Get 100 Million Doses of Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine In $1.95 Billion Deal The federal government has reached a $1.95 billion deal with Pfizer to acquire 100 million doses of its vaccine candidate against the coronavirus if the Food… Continue Reading →
Trump Administration Selects Five Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates as Finalists The White House is eager to project progress, but the public-private partnership it has created still faces scientific hurdles, internal tensions and questions from Congress. The Department of Health and Human… Continue Reading →
False Positive Results with BD SARS-CoV-2 Reagents for BD Max System The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting clinical laboratory staff and health care providers of an increased risk of a false positive result with BD SARS-CoV-2 Reagents… Continue Reading →
Pooling Coronavirus Tests Can Spare Scarce Supplies, But There’s A Catch Federal health officials are hoping to stretch the supplies used to test for the coronavirus by combining samples from a number of people and running a single test. Chinese… Continue Reading →