As companies scramble to develop a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a team of husband and wife researchers have found that the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine can reduce the symptoms of COVID-19.
According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), there are 264 vaccines in development to prevent and treat diseases.
The United States recorded 971 cases of measles in the first five months of 2019, surpassing the total for any year since 1992, which was before the disease was declared eradicated in the country, federal officials said.
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Americans to protect themselves with the measles vaccination as the number of cases of the once-eradicated disease hit the highest levels in the United States since 2000.
A New York suburb banned children not vaccinated against measles from public spaces, such as schools and shopping malls, in a fight against the state’s worst outbreak in decades of the potentially deadly disease.
Update, 6:38pm ET, July 2: According to records at the CDC and to Washington state health department spokesperson Donn Moyer, other deaths have been reported to be from measles over […]
