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Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, warned Wednesday the U.S. will face a challenging fall and winter without additional congressional funding for testing and treatment.

Drugmaker Merck says its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus

Pfizer revealed Monday that early results from its coronavirus vaccine suggest the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, putting the company on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

President Trump was released on Monday from Walter Reed Medical Center where he had been receiving treatment for COVID-19. Dr. Dena Grayson, an infectious disease expert, explains what to make of Trump’s experimental treatment regimen and his claim that he may now be “immune” from the coronavirus.

With the country fast approaching 200,000 deaths due to COVID-19, our nation is in desperate need of a vaccine. Dr. Tom Frieden was the CDC Director under the Obama Administration and is outlining all the hurdles required for a COVID-19 vaccine to be cleared.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield testified on Wednesday that broad access to the COVID-19 vaccination likely won’t be available until “the second or third quarter” of 2021.

Convalescent plasma therapy is being used to treat COVID-19 patients, but is it safe and successful? Dr. William A. Haseltine, the chair and president of Access Health International and Robert Segal, president of LabFinder are providing answers.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency authorization for the use of convalescent plasma therapy in treating COVID-19. The move comes as the national death toll approaches 180,000.

Dr. David Fajgenbaum, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and author of “Chasing My Cure,” found a treatment for a condition that almost killed him, Castleman disease, after his doctors were stumped. Now he’s using the same game plan to work on a cure for Covid-19.