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News and perspectives from corporations working to directly impact the COVID-19 public health crisis. Content from this collection may include updates from medical supply or pharmaceutical companies, businesses that have pivoted their production to support the medical response to COVID-19 or hospitals that are navigating many secondary impacts of the pandemic (both economic and human).

Brands Are Rallying to Fight the Coronavirus _ ANA

Brands Are Rallying to Fight the Coronavirus

By: Matthew Schwartz
Source: Association of National Advertisers
Date of Publication: June 12th, 2020
Budweiser, Crocs, Publix, and Hyundai, among others, have seized on opportunities to help in the fight against COVID-19.
TAGS:
Brands
Donations
Healthcare workers
Relief efforts
Testing
Big Tech Zeros In on the Virus-Testing Market - The New York Times

Big Tech Zeros In on the Virus-Testing Market

By: Natasha Singer
Source: The New York Times
Date of Publication: June 18th, 2020
As businesses grapple with how to safely reopen the workplace, companies like Fitbit and Verily, Google’s sister company, are rushing out new work force health-vetting and tracking tools.
TAGS:
Applications (Apps)
Reopening
Symptoms
Testing
CVS Reaches Goal To Open 1,000 Coronavirus Test Sites_Forbes

CVS Reaches Goal To Open 1,000 Coronavirus Test Sites

By: Bruce Japsen
Source: Forbes
Date of Publication: May 28th, 2020
CVS Health Thursday said it is delivering as promised to open 1,000 testing locations for the Coronavirus strain Covid-19.
TAGS:
Testing
These entrepreneurs are just about out of their paycheck protection funding. Here’s what’s next

These entrepreneurs are just about out of their paycheck protection funding. Here’s what’s next

By: Darla Mercado
Source: CNBC
Date of Publication: June 14th, 2020
The Paycheck Protection Program offered forgivable loans to entrepreneurs whose businesses were affected by Covid-19. Originally it was intended to cover up to eight weeks of payroll costs, rental expenses, utilities and more.
Businesses that received money in April are coming up on the end of their eight-week period. For restaurants and other businesses, it means they’re out of aid before they’re up and running.
Senate Democrats have proposed a new lifeline to allow the hardest-hit firms to apply for a second injection of PPP funding.
TAGS:
Financial hardship
Funding
Paycheck Protection Program
Small businesses
Quest to Offer Employers Virus Tests to Help in Return to Work - Bloomberg

Quest to Offer Employers Virus Tests to Help in Return to Work

By: Emma Court
Source: Bloomberg
Date of Publication: May 27th, 2020
Quest Diagnostics Inc. is offering services to large employers geared at getting their employees back to work safely, including testing for the novel coronavirus, analytics to monitor symptoms and hotspots, and services like temperature monitoring, the company announced Wednesday.
TAGS:
Return to work
Testing
Exclusive_ Lilly COVID-19 treatment could be authorized for use as soon as September - chief scientist

Exclusive: Lilly COVID-19 treatment could be authorized for use as soon as September - chief scientist

By: Carl O'Donnell and Michael Erman
Source: Reuters
Date of Publication: June 10th, 2020
Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID-19 authorized for use as early as September if all goes well with either of two antibody therapies it is testing, its chief scientist told Reuters on Wednesday.
TAGS:
Clinical trials
Drugs
Treatments
Vaccines
BIO_ Moderna, Merck execs see possible speed bumps in COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing _ FiercePharma

BIO: Moderna, Merck execs see possible speed bumps in COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing

By: Eric Sagonowsky
Source: FiercePharma
Date of Publication: June 11th, 2020
The companies will have to overcome many obstacles to quickly produce a COVID-19 vaccine.
TAGS:
Manufacturing
Vaccines
ANIMAX DESIGNS TO PRODUCE FACE SHIELDS AND MASKS IN FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 — Animax Designs

ANIMAX DESIGNS TO PRODUCE FACE SHIELDS AND MASKS IN FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

Source: Animax Designs
Date of Publication: April 2nd, 2020
Animax Designs has swapped the production of animatronics with face shields to fight COVID-19.
TAGS:
3D printing
Face shields
Front line
Masks
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
U.S. EPA orders Amazon, eBay to stop selling unsafe COVID-19 products: Bloomberg

U.S. EPA orders Amazon, eBay to stop selling unsafe COVID-19 products: Bloomberg

Source: Reuters
Date of Publication: June 11th, 2020
E-commerce companies Amazon Inc and eBay Inc have been instructed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop selling unproven or unsafe disinfectants, including products falsely marketed as killing COVID-19, on their platforms, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
TAGS:
Government
Online retail
Prevention
Safety measures
Unsafe
J&J to begin human trials of COVID-19 vaccine in second half of July

J&J to begin human trials of COVID-19 vaccine in second half of July

By: Saumya Sibi Joseph
Source: Reuters
Date of Publication: June 10th, 2020
Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it would start human trials of its potential COVID-19 vaccine in the second half of July, two months earlier than planned, as drugmakers race to develop a shot for the deadly respiratory disease.
TAGS:
Clinical trials
Research
Vaccines
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