National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing to review Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a public-private partnership among components of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the NIH. OWS was initiated by the U.S. government to develop, manufacture and distribute COVID-19 vaccines as well as therapeutics and diagnostics, with the goal of delivering 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine by next January.
In This Story: COVID-19
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
Symptoms of coronavirus
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
- a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
- a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
- shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
Latest News about Covid-19
Below are stories from around the globe related to the 2020 outbreak of novel Coronavirus – since the WHO gave the Covid-19 naming. Most recent items are posted nearest the top.
5 Recent Items: COVID-19
In This Story: Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.