Regeneron, the COVID-19 drug that Trump took, receives emergency clearance from the FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday gave emergency clearance to Regeneron, the drug to treat the coronavirus popularly known after it was used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he...
Pfizer requests emergency approval for its vaccine and becomes the first to do so
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has requested this Friday before the regulator of the medicine of the United States the emergency authorization for its vaccine against the coronavirus to be able to begin to distribute it,...
Record-breaking coronavirus pandemic with over 650,000 cases in 24 hours and over 11,000 deaths
The pandemic of the new coronavirus accumulates more than 56.9 million cases worldwide after adding in the last 24 hours more than 650,000 infections and more than 11,000 deaths, setting a new record in...
U.S. passes first COVID-19 test for home self-diagnosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), responsible for giving the green light to the marketing of drugs, authorized this Wednesday the first test of COVID-19 for self-diagnosis at home, whose result can be...
Donald Trump fires cyber security officer for saying the election was safe
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump fired the director of the cybersecurity agency who said that the last presidential election was "the most secure in history". Chris Krebs' recent statement about the security of the...
More than one million adolescents and children have contracted COVID-19 in the U.S.
More than one million infants, children and adolescents have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the United States, which has already exceeded 11 million confirmed cases in total, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and...
What is Biden’s position on Huawei, TikTok, and policy towards China?
Since 2018, Trump's presidency has been marked by its continuous hostilities with China, and especially with Huawei, a company that was even blacklisted for collaboration with American companies, which ended up by leaving the...
SpaceX and NASA begin a new phase of manned space missions
The private company SpaceX sent this Sunday its first manned operational mission to the International Space Station (ISS), after the successful and timely launch from Cape Canaveral (Florida) of a reusable Falcon 9 rocket...
5 ways to improve emergency preparedness for next time
A new analysis of the United States government’s response to COVID-19 highlights myriad problems with its emergency preparedness approach.
Instead of the current response that relied in large part on international supply chains and the...
United Kingdom confirms a new record of daily coronavirus infections with almost 33,500 cases
The Ministry of Health of the United Kingdom has verified this Thursday a record of new cases of COVID-19, a total of 33,470 during the day, which have raised the balance of the country...
