Fact Check: Trump Praises Scientists for Coming Up With an AIDS Vaccine That Does Not Exist

(WASHINGTON) — Seizing on a medical milestone that doesn’t exist, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he thinks the same scientific expertise that produced a vaccine for AIDS can deliver one soon for COVID-19, too. There is no vaccine for AIDS. Trump also accused the previous administration of making no effort to stop abusive policing, ignoring … Read more

A Low-Cost Steroid Shows Promise for Treating COVID-19. But Take the News With a Grain of Salt

Encouraging results from researchers looking into potential COVID-19 treatments are being hailed as a “groundbreaking development”—but recent history shows it’s worth taking these promising findings with a grain of salt. Investigators working on the U.K.-based RECOVERY trial announced today that dexamethasone, a low-cost and widely available steroid that lowers inflammation, improved patients’ chances of surviving … Read more

Wife of Ukraine’s President Zelensky Is Hospitalized After Contracting the Coronavirus

(KYIV, Ukraine) — The wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been hospitalized with double pneumonia after contracting the new coronavirus, joining the ranks of several first ladies around the world who got infected with COVID-19 earlier this year. Zelensky’s office said in a statement Tuesday that Olena Zelenska’s condition was stable and the president … Read more

‘I Can’t Be Hands On Right Now.’ What It’s Like to Be a Childcare Provider During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Darlene Mount, 50, has been a childcare provider for more than 25 years. She is currently caring for the children of emergency personnel at the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County, New Jersey during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The state has the second-highest number of novel coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S. Part of what … Read more

The FDA Revoked Emergency Use Authorization for Hydroxychloroquine, Citing New Evidence

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it is revoking the emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, citing a lack of evidence that these drugs are effective for COVID-19. Early on in the pandemic, doctors scrambling to find a way to treat the disease widely prescribed hydroxychloroquine to their sickest patients, … Read more

After COVID-19 Left Her Lungs ‘Full of Holes,’ First U.S. Coronavirus Patient Receives Double Lung Transplant

Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus. Northwestern Medicine on Thursday announced the procedure, which took place last Friday. Only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants. The Chicago patient is in her 20s and … Read more