By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without having to train the immune system to make them. Antibodies are ...
The Big Ten won't play football this fall because of concerns about COVID-19, becoming the first of college sports' power conferences to yield to the pandemic. The move announced Tuesday comes six day after the conference that includes historic programs such as Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia is starting to track with other states that are seeing decreases in coronavirus positive cases, though outbreaks in nursing homes have sent death rates in the state upward. The number of positive cases over the last 14 days between July 27 and Sunday was 1,704, which is a 6 percent decrease in positive cases from the previous 14 days. As of Sunday, the most recent data available, the state reported 60 new cases. The total number of tests over the last 14 days was 64,327, which was a 15 percent increase in testing compared to testing conducted between July ...
CHARLESTON — State officials said Monday they supported President Donald Trump’s executive order extending coronavirus unemployment supplements and would be willing to foot part of the bill in the short term. Gov. Jim Justice and Scott Adkins, acting director of WorkForce West Virginia, ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer President Donald Trump joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches Monday in the push to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown. There was speculation that two of the five most powerful conferences — the Big Ten and ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Michigan defensive back Hunter Reynolds saw the tweets from Trevor Lawrence and other college football players pushing for the opportunity to play this season despite the pandemic. Reynolds, one of the organizers behind a players' rights ...
