Off Media's Radar: How Israel is Helping Combat Global Coronavirus Pandemic
Israeli Hospital Partners With National Institutes of Health to Study and Combat COVID-19 Last April, the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, located near Tel Aviv, announced the signing of an “emergency agreement” with the Maryland-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct applied scientific and clinical research studies in order to develop coronavirus-related treatments. The hospital committed to supplying the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center with blood samples, plasma and the COVID-19 virus itself from infected patients in Israel. This was all made possible due to a series ...