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The actual death toll for COVID-19 won’t be calculable for some time, but there are early indications that it may be significantly lower than calculations of deaths per confirmed cases lead one to believe.
Ansun Pharmaceuticals used its influenza research data to dive into attempts to develop a treatment for COVID-19. DAS181 is it’s potential candidate for COVID-19.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 7, 2020.
It is important to remember that this is a new virus, so researchers are constantly learning more about it every day.
Vaccine expert Rick Bright, who was abruptly dismissed from his post as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) last month, filed a whistleblower complaint against the administration over its failures to heed warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic and accused the White House of cronyism in awarding contracts.
In 1996, Udit Batra received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University. 24 years later, he heads a MilliporeSigma, $7.5 billion global life sciences company with a catalog of some 300,000 items used by life sciences researchers and developers throughout the world.
In an interview with National Geographic, Fauci once again sided with the evidence that indicates the virus is a species jumper and originated in the animal kingdom.
Leaders from all over the world met for a virtual summit on Monday, May 4 to pledge billions of dollars to fund development of a vaccine against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Noticeably absent was the United States.
“We are very disappointed in the topline results in the STARS study that did not meet the study endpoints,” said Ravi Anand, Newron’s chief medical officer.
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