Tag Archive for: Covid-19

COVID-19: A Vaccine Solution?

Not since the Swine Flu epidemic of 2009 has there been this amount of emphasis on vaccines and vaccine development.  This new infectious disease threat with no anti-viral, nor vaccine is causing significant concern among healthcare providers, governments and the public.  Last-resort measures such as school closings and curfews in place in the United States […]

White House COVID-19 Plan Contains Diagnostics Boost

A rapid scale-up of diagnostic testing for the novel coronavirus was the focus of a declaration of emergency by President Donald Trump in a March 13 press conference. The plan calls for sharply boosting the production of coronavirus test kits while also making tests available at a network of drive-through sites. In an address at the […]

Boost for Remote Patient Monitoring in COVID-19 Bill That Passed House, Senate

The House of Representatives and Senate today passed an $8.3 billion spending package to help providers and local governments handle the spread of the coronavirus and to boost the development of vaccines and tests of the virus.  While vaccine support and spending on healthcare is expected, the bill also  boosts telehealth solutions with financial support […]

Coronavirus Mortality Rate Upped to 3.4%; Increasing Need for Testing

With the world’s major health organization upping the mortality rate to 3.4%, there is increased need for a working rapid test for COVID-19 to be able to properly isolate patients and protect providers. The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised its estimate of the mortality rate of patients infected with the novel coronavirus to 3.4% […]

Roche and Meridian Among Vendors with 2019-nCoV-related IVD products; FDA Steps in.

Major IVD vendors, especially those common in reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR), went right to work in the recent coronavirus outbreak.  This as the FDA announced plans to make emergency test deployment easier.  The recent novel coronavirus, responsible for thousands of infections and over 170 deaths in the Hubei province in China at the time of […]