On April 16, 2020, Wisconsin Secretary-designee of the Department of Health Services, Andrea Palm, issued Emergency Order #28 at the direction of Governor Tony Evers. This new Order extends Wisconsin’s “Safer at Home” Order until 8:00 a.m. on May 26, 2020, or until a superseding order is issued, and modifies the original order. The original Safer at Home Order issued on March 25, Emergency Order #12, remains in effect until April 24, 2020.
Read the full press release from DuPont here. The #TyvekTogether Program will introduce a new specialized Tyvek® fabric to enable an increase in the amount of garment production for the COVID-19 response to 15 million garments a month. Download PDF here WILMINGTON, Del., April 15, 2020 – DuPont (NYSE:DD) today launched a new program, #TyvekTogether, to increase the overall availability of Tyvek® personal […]
Read the full article from Tech Crunch here. GE Healthcare is extending its longtime collaboration with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systems. GE Healthcare had originally intended to debut its Mural Virtual Care Solution at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting earlier this year. When the COVID-19 […]
Read the full press release from CISION PR Newswire here. Co-Diagnostics, Inc.(Nasdaq: CODX)(the Company), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, announced today that it has contracted with Madison, Wisconsin-based Promega Corporation for additional manufacturing capacity for immediate production of the Company’s Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test, as […]
Read the full story from Tech Crunch here. Ford has expanded its plan to produce critical medical equipment and supplies, including a new effort to make reusable gowns from airbag materials as well as a partnership with scientific instrument provider Thermo Fisher Scientific to ramp up production of COVID-19 collection kits to test for the […]
Read the full press release here. Viracor Eurofins received FDA EUA for its RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 Virus LDT. Eurofins Genomics expands capacity for probes and primers production for RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 test kits Eurofins Technologies, a fast growing provider of diagnostic technologies in the field of immunoassays and molecular detection methods, announces the launch of a range […]
Read the full press release from Merck here. Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today a commitment to strengthen health systems affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through Merck for Mothers, the company’s global initiative to help end preventable maternal deaths, the company will provide $3 million to help […]
BioForward is actively engaged with community partners, elected officials, state agencies and industry partners to meet the challenges of combating the coronavirus and demonstrating that Wisconsin can help lead the nation through this healthcare crisis. PPE Focus Eight Madison-area community providers serving people with developmental disabilities and seniors received much-needed PPE as they battle the […]
Read the full story from Wisconsin State Journal here. A Promega Corp. product received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s test for the new coronavirus. The Fitchburg-based company announced Wednesday that one of its master mixes is approved under an FDA Emergency […]
Read the full story from WARF here. An international collaboration of virologists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the vaccine companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech has begun the development and testing of a unique vaccine against COVID-19 called CoroFlu. CoroFlu will build on the backbone of FluGen’s flu vaccine candidate known as M2SR. Based on […]