Regeneron was one of 10 companies that met at the White House yesterday to discuss the development of a coronavirus vaccine or treatment. Everyone there was “intensely focused on how quickly we could move forward,” CEO Dr. Leonard Schleifer said.
The World Bank approved $12 billion in emergency financing to help poor nations with the health costs and economic impact of the outbreak, the organization said. "We are working to provide a fast, flexible response based on developing country needs in dealing with the spread of COVID-19," World Bank Group President David Malpass said in a statement.
said, and it will remain closed for 14 days. All employees have been instructed to self-quarantine for 14 days, DHS acting secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement.This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 —also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab., world health officials said. Globally, about 3.4% of confirmed patients have died, said Dr.
, ranging from 0.7% to up to 4%, depending on the quality of the health-care system where it's treated. Early in the outbreak, scientists had concluded the death rate was around 2.3%. —President Donald Trump has donated his fourth quarter 2019 salary to the Department of Health and Human Services, where it will be used to "support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain, and combat Coronavirus," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said.
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