• Coronavirus patients eagerly join Gilead Sciences drug study

    Coronavirus patients eagerly join Gilead Sciences drug study

    The new coronavirus made Dr. Jag Singh a patient at his own hospital. His alarm grew as he saw an X-ray of his pneumonia-choked lungs and colleagues asked his wishes about life support while wheeling him into Massachusetts General’s intensive care unit. When they offered him a chance to help test remdesivir, an experimental drug …
  • Johnson & Johnson lands $1B government deal to boost coronavirus vaccine capacity

    Johnson & Johnson lands $1B government deal to boost coronavirus vaccine capacity

    Johnson & Johnson said on Monday that it and the US government will invest $1 billion to create enough manufacturing capacity to make more than 1 billion doses of a vaccine it is testing to stop the new coronavirus that has killed more than 35,000 people around the world. As part of the arrangement, the …