Health & Healthcare

The UN Global Compact has shared a special appeal for a corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic: for all companies to take collective action to stem the outbreak through implementing our Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

On March 15, as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County began to mount, Southern California Edison learned that the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona was under consideration as a possible quarantine site.

Our newly established testing laboratory in Berlin which supports the fight against the Corona virus is already running: In the lab, our employees – more than 140 have volunteered – are able to conduct up to 1,000 additional SARS-CoV-2 tests per day.

When the news of the coronavirus first emerged, Gilead immediately began to investigate the potential of remdesivir, a medicine we had been studying for many years as part of our extensive research in antivirals.

Unprecedented is a word we hear every day as the pandemic continues to evolve. At this time of stress and uncertainty, many are looking to the government for help, but I firmly believe that businesses also have to rise to the occasion.

Medtronic Expands Respiratory Remote Monitoring Solutions in Fight Against COVID-19. Medtronic Care Management Services offers new solutions to help evaluate and monitor patients for COVID-19.

Philomena Flaherty had a feeling she would play a role in the global effort to mobilize against COVID-19.

Medtronic, the global leader in medical technology, continues to make progress in increasing ventilator production worldwide.

As part of its global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, International Medical Corps is deploying two medical shelters and equipment to Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH), which serves an area of high medical need in South Los Angeles

General Mills announced a series of actions to support employees and communities in response to COVID-19, including
$5 million in charitable grants to support food access in our key global markets and support for our manufacturing communities.