[ad_1] The US Food and Drug Administration building in Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press WASHINGTON – US regulators on Tuesday allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be performed and developed entirely at home. The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration represents an important step …
Read More »These scientists pour cold water on a seemingly critical similarity between COVID-19 and the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’
[ad_1] “Cytokine storms” were a common feature of the 1918 flu, historians and health professionals say. But what is the role of potentially fatal immune responses in the coronavirus pandemic? About 500 million people, or a third of the world’s population, were infected with the Spanish flu of 1918. An …
Read More »Beyond Meat’s stock plummets more than 25% as COVID-19 bites into earnings
[ad_1] Beyond Meat Inc. reported third quarter results on Monday. Getty Images Shares of Beyond Meat Inc. plunged more than 25% in extended trading Monday after the leading name in the vegetable meat field reported third-quarter results that fell short of Wall Street estimates. The poor quarter was exacerbated by …
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