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Doctors push for treatment of coronavirus with blood from recovered patients "This is an opportunity to do something proactive that can help fight this," a Johns Hopkins doctor said. Medical personnel secure a sample from a person at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing station at a Kaiser Permanente facility in San Francisco on March 12.  Justin Sullivan / Getty Images SHARE THIS - March 13, 2020, 6:02 PM EDT  /  Updated March 13, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT By Mike Hixenbaugh In the absence of vaccines or antiviral drugs, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore say the key to slowing and treating the  coronavirus  might be hidden in the blood of those who’ve already recovered from the disease. The method of using “convalescent serum” — essentially harvesting virus-fighting antibodies from the blood of previously infected patients — dates back more than a century, but has not been used widely in the United States in decades. During the Spa

Coronavirus pandemic panic shopping hits grocery stores  By  Bryan Llenas  | Fox News Continue Reading Below Long lines and empty shelves are becoming more common in grocery stores nationwide as communities shut down schools and employees work from home amid the  coronavirus  outbreak, raising questions about whether America’s supply chain can handle a potential mass quarantine event. Retailers and manufacturers have been working together to figure out how to speed up the production of select products, how to sanitize stores for customers, and have discussed hiring temporary workers to help in mass grocery store deliveries and food pickups nationwide, according to FMI or the Food Industry Association. “In an unprecedented time, I would say that nothing’s off the table,” said Doug Baker, vice president of industry relations for FMI, who said they are even talking to lawmakers about eliminating some rules, like required 15-minute breaks for truck drivers, to kee