By FISM News Glassmaker Corning Inc said on Tuesday it would receive $204 million from the U.S. government to boost the manufacturing capacity of its vials that will be used to store coronavirus vaccines and treatments. Billions of vials will be needed for vaccines of the new coronavirus, with world leaders looking towards treatments as […]

By Samuel Case, FISM News On Monday during a Q&A session the WHO’s technical lead on the coronavirus pandemic, Maria Van Kerhove, remarked that COVID-19 may not spread easily from asymptomatic patients based on available data from contact tracing. Van Kerhove said, “We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed […]

By Madeline Sponsler, FISM News Relatives of victims and activist groups called on Monday for the top United Nations human rights body to launch an investigation into “police violence and repression of protests” in the United States. The joint letter calling for a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council was sent to its […]