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Whenever a coronavirus vaccine becomes available to the public, only 49 percent of Americans responding to a poll said they'd actually get it.

Only One in Two Americans Say They’d Take a COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study involving 96,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was linked to an increased risk of mortality.

Large Study: Hydroxychloroquine Linked to Increased Death Risk

By Victor Tangermann

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.

Science & Energy

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

By Dan Robitzski

In order to limit the number of doctors who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, hospitals are using mixed reality goggles to communicate across rooms.

Doctors Are Using Mixed Reality to Treat COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Associate professor of biology Erin Bromage decided to start a blog about how to keep safe amidst a global pandemic, and why you shouldn't panic.

Biologist Has Great Advice on COVID Infection Risks

By Victor Tangermann

Disturbing-Looking Face Mask Has “Pac-Man”-Style Mouth Hole

Prosthetics and Devices

Disturbing-Looking Face Mask Has “Pac-Man”-Style Mouth Hole

By Victor Tangermann

A Texas courtroom is experimenting with the videoconferencing software Zoom, which it's using to hold a jury trial this week.

A Texas Court Is Holding The First-Ever Jury Trial Over Zoom

By Dan Robitzski

There are a lot of caveats here, so don't get too excited, but new results for an experimental COVID vaccine look promising.

Don’t Get Too Excited, But This COVID Vaccine Looks Promising

By Jon Christian

This startup is selling a gigantic air-filtration helmet that it says will filter out the COVID-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus. Does it work?

Will This Gigantic Air-Filtration Helmet Protect Against COVID?

By Jon Christian

As schoolchildren stay home during formative periods of their childhood, scientists are predicting they'll face educational setbacks for years.

Scientists Predict the Pandemic Will Set Students Back for Years

By Dan Robitzski

Police in China, Italy, Dubai, and multiple other countries are now wearing thermal cameras embedded in their helmets to scan for fevers.

Cops Around the World Are Scanning for Fevers With Helmet Cams

By Dan Robitzski

Therapeutics firm Sorrento claims to have found the first ingredient for its "cocktail" of antibodies that could protect against the coronavirus.

Pharma Company Claims to Find Part of COVID-Fighting Cocktail

By Victor Tangermann

A new study by researchers suggests that the body builds a robust antiviral immune response after fighting the coronavirus. Good news for a vaccine.

Good News: Human Body Builds “Robust” Immune Response to COVID

By Victor Tangermann

Two Rohingya refugees in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh have tested positive for the coronavirus, the BBC reports.

Report: COVID Has Spread to the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury.

Study: COVID Patients Suffering Acute Kidney Damage

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out how the coronavirus takes over cells, and they think they found potential treatments that stop it.

Scientists Have a Promising New Idea to Defeat the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

"This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan said on Thursday.

WHO: The Coronavirus Might Be Here Forever

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft and the biotech company Adaptive are launching a study on coronavirus patients' T cells, and they're buying blood samples to get started.

Microsoft Is Buying COVID-19 Patients’ Blood for Biotech Research

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Chinese and Iranian hackers are targeting US efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

US Officials: Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Vaccine Research

By Victor Tangermann

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.

Machine Learning

The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of biostatistical models predicting the future U.S. coronavirus death toll agree: there will likely be 110,000 fatalities by June 6.

Multiple Models Predict 110,000 US Coronavirus Deaths by June

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have come up with an idea to help contain the number of new coronavirus infections: working 4 days, and then staying at home for 10.

Researchers: Working Just 8 Days Per Month Could Help Fight COVID

By Victor Tangermann

The clinic CityMD told 15,000 patients who took a COVID-19 test that they had built up an immunity against the disease, which is more than the test reveals.

CityMD Wrongly Told 15,000 Patients They Were Immune to COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci argues that the country isn't ready to reopen, and that doing so will lead to a spike in new coronavirus cases and deaths.

Fauci: Reopening Too Soon Could Lead to “Suffering and Death”

By Dan Robitzski

Wuhan, the Chinese city that was at the epicenter of the coronavirus, is planning to test all 11 million inhabitants, according to a state media report.

After Six New Cases, Wuhan Plans to Test All 11 Million Residents

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has started making cars again at its Fremont, California plant despite shelter-in-place orders in Alameda County. Musk couldn't wait.

Defying Shelter-in-Place, Tesla Is Building New Cars Today

By Victor Tangermann

A resurgence of coronavirus cases is starting to hit China, South Korea and Germany — just as governments are starting to loosen restrictions.

There’s a Resurgence of Coronavirus Cases in China

By Victor Tangermann

The thermal, fever-detecting cameras being installed in workplaces and hospitals are unlikely to actually stop future coronavirus outbreaks.

Science & Energy

Experts: Fever-Detecting Cameras Won’t Really Stop Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Dark web marketplaces are full of listings for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and debunked or experimental treatments like hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.

RX and Medicine

Darknet Marketplaces Are Full of COVID-19 Tests and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

By Dan Robitzski

While "immunity passports" have been thrown around as a possible way to gradually reopen society, a bioethics expert argues that it would be ill-advised.

Bioethicist: COVID-19 “Immunity Passports” Are a Bad Idea

By Dan Robitzski

Trump has told his advisers that him wearing a mask would "send the wrong message," NBC News reports, arguing it'd be focusing on health not the reopening.

Trump: Wearing Mask Would “Send the Wrong Message”

By Victor Tangermann

After CDC scientists developed a comprehensive guide for how to safely re-open restaurants and public spaces, the White House buried it.

White House Secretly Buried CDC Guidelines on Reopening Country

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study by an international team of researchers, antibodies found in the blood of llamas were able to stave off coronavirus infections.

Scientists Say Llama Antibodies Could Be Key to Defeating COVID

By Victor Tangermann

Health Department official Rick Bright filed a whistleblower complaint about officials in the Trump administration ignoring warnings about the pandemic.

Whistleblower: Trump Repeatedly Ignored Coronavirus Warnings

By Dan Robitzski

New genetic analysis suggests that COVID-19 spread to the U.S. and Europe weeks or even months earlier than official reports say.

Scientists: COVID-19 Spread Globally for Months Before We Noticed

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, researchers outline a new dominant strain of coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than the previously dominating one.

Scientists Warn of More Contagious Strain of the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

A new COVID-19 test uses CRISPR molecules to hunt for the coronavirus. And while more testing is needed, it could cost as little as $6.

MIT Invents $6 COVID-19 Test Using CRISPR

By Dan Robitzski

In an interview with National Geographic, Anthony Fauci reiterated that evidence suggests the coronavirus was not created in a lab in China.

Fauci: The Virus Was Not Made In a Lab, You Idiots

By Victor Tangermann

Staff at the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo have been noticing that their roughly 300 tiny garden eels have been burying themselves in sand more often.

Tokyo Aquarium Asks People to FaceTime Its Shy Eels

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese intelligence warned the country's leadership that its response to the coronavirus pandemic created a massive wave of global anti-China sentiment.

China Fears Its Coronavirus Coverup Could Destabilize the Country

By Dan Robitzski

According to internal documents obtained by The New York Times, the CDC expects daily new coronavirus cases to surge from about 25,000 to 200,000.

Trump Admin Expects Daily COVID Deaths to Nearly Double by June

By Victor Tangermann

In a scathing letter, Amazon VP and Distinguished Engineer Tim Bray announced he's leaving the company over the company firing protesters.

Amazon VP Quits Over “Chickenshit” Firing of Whistleblowers

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey led by researchers from a number of US universities found that the majority of Americans want to continue physical distancing measures.

Survey: Majority of Americans Don’t Want US to Reopen Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA developed a new test for COVID-19 that can spot an infection within 24 hours, even earlier than people start spreading the coronavirus to others.

New Military Test Detects COVID-19 Before It’s Infectious

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago have developed a skin-colored stick-on sensor that can track COVID-19 symptoms.

Prosthetics and Devices

This Stick-On Sensor Can Detect and Track COVID-19 Symptoms

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just approved its first treatment for COVID-19: an experimental antiviral drug called remdesivir that showed promise in preliminary research.

FDA Grants Emergency Use of Remdesivir For COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

A laundry delivery startup called Cleanly attempted to help medical workers clean their clothes. Instead, it kept losing all of their stuff.

A Laundry Delivery Startup Keeps Losing Doctors’ Clothes

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's latest unhinged tweetstorm is sending Tesla stocks into a nosedive. "Tesla stock price is too high imo," Musk tweeted.

Elon Musk’s Weird Tweets Are Sending Tesla Stocks Into a Nosedive

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia, England have found links between low levels of vitamin D and COVID-19 mortality rates across Europe.

Scientists Find Link Between Vitamin Deficiency and COVID Deaths

By Victor Tangermann

A ventilator developed by NASA engineers and designed to save COVID-19 patients was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use.

FDA Approves NASA Ventilator for Use on COVID Patients

By Victor Tangermann

A strip club in Oregon has created a drive-thru strip club experience to keep their business going during a worldwide pandemic.

Strip Clubs Are Offering “Drive-Thru” Experiences During Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

By Dan Robitzski

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Wednesday that all city and county residents can get a free COVID-19 test, with our without symptoms.

LA Offers Free Coronavirus Test to Every Resident

By Victor Tangermann

White House health advisor Anthony Fauci said yesterday that early drug trial testing of antiviral drug remdesivir showed "quite good news."

Fauci: This COVID Drug Might Actually Work

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a meltdown during a Wednesday call with analysts and investors following the company's quarterly earnings.

Here’s Why Elon Musk Keeps Complaining About Quarantine

By Victor Tangermann

Images show Chinese school children wearing adorable hats with two long flaps on either sides that ensure they're social distancing properly.

Chinese Kids Are Wearing Adorable Social-Distancing Hats at School

By Victor Tangermann

New economic research shows that ending lockdowns early and re-opening businesses would cause twice the economic damage as staying the course.

New Research: Ending Lockdown Would Hurt the Economy Even More

By Dan Robitzski

"FREE AMERICA NOW," billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted early this morning, echoing president Donald Trump's recent tweets about the lockdown.

Musk Joins Trump in Spreading Misinformation About Virus

By Victor Tangermann

South Korean infectious disease experts claim that reports of citizens being reinfected by the coronavirus were likely to based on flawed tests.

Experts: People Probably Aren’t Actually Catching COVID Again

By Victor Tangermann

A company developed genetic tests to determine whether someone's more likely to catch COVID-19 and, if they do, whether they'll have a more severe case.

Free DNA Test Claims to Warn Whether COVID Is Likely to Kill You

By Dan Robitzski

As various teams race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, one group at Oxford University says that, under the right conditions, theirs could be available as soon as September.

This COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready by September

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists have found new evidence that the coronavirus could be able to spread through the air after finding genetic material in airborne droplets.

Scientists Find Airborne Coronavirus Floating in Wuhan Hospital

By Victor Tangermann

Trump Reportedly Ignored Numerous Intel Warnings About COVID

Trump Reportedly Ignored Numerous Intel Warnings About COVID

By Victor Tangermann