500,000 patient specimens are being collected and tested as an initiative is underway to identify asymptomatic patients while also protecting high-risk population
In lab experiments, both the lung cell and immune cell types of nanosponges caused the SARS-CoV-2 virus to lose nearly 90 percent of its "viral infectivity"
Authors of a recent Nature Medicine commentary propose six broad actions that governments should take to improve their responses to COVID-19 and future health crises