Dr. Anthony Fauci: Trump Listened to Official Recommendations for Mitigation to Fight Coronavirus
Dr. Anthony Fauci asserted Monday at the White House that President Donald Trump listened to his recommendation to institute mitigation policies to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. He said: The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally...
Governors, White House Race to Reopen America
An arms race of sorts has emerged between red states and blue states to reopen America, with Democrat and Republican governors developing rivaling plans to lead their states out of the darkness of the coronavirus crisis while the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force and President...
Coronavirus cases near 2M worldwide as testing efforts ramp up
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide is nearing 2 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The death toll is nearly 120,000. The university revised its count Monday night after previously reporting the number of cases had topped 2 million. The U.S....
Trump Claims He Can Override State Lockdowns as Dem Governors Make Plans
Tresident Donald Trump on Monday claimed that he has “total authority” to override state governors’ stay-at-home orders if they conflict with his plan to reopen the country’s economy by relaxing the social distancing measures meant to hinder the spread of COVID-19. While Trump and some...
‘Just brutal’: 50 NYC school and Education Dept. employees have died from COVID-19
The coronavirus has taken an unbearable toll among the city’s Education Department, killing 50 people — a grim statistic released Monday after weeks of mounting pressure to release the sobering data. The COVID-19 deaths included 22 paraprofessionals, 21 teachers, two administrators, two central office staffers,...
How a premier U.S. drug company became a coronavirus ‘super spreader’
BOSTON — On the first Monday in March, Michel Vounatsos, chief executive of the drug company Biogen, appeared in good spirits. The company’s new Alzheimer’s drug was showing promise after years of setbacks. Revenues had never been higher. Onstage at an elite health care conference...
Coronavirus: 10th patient at Hayward nursing home dies
HAYWARD – A 10th patient at Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hayward died of COVID-19 on Monday night. Union City Councilman Jaime Patiño confirmed the death of his 85-year-old grandmother, Emma Patiño, in a Facebook post. “My grandma was a beautiful, hard working woman...
Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom says West Coast coordinating plans to end lockdowns
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he is coordinating with governors in Oregon and Washington to end the statewide stay-home order he imposed nearly a month ago to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a surprise shift as hospitals here see fewer patients than...
‘State decision’: Governors defy Trump with coronavirus pacts
Ten governors in the Northeast and the West Coast announced Monday that they are crafting joint plans for reopening schools and businesses in their states, putting them on a collision course with President Trump, who said he has “the ultimate authority” on when to reopen...
Desperate Red Cross Introduces New High-Powered Arm Juicer To Get Every Last Drop Out Of Donors
WASHINGTON—Calling the machine a “potential breakthrough” in the nonprofit’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a desperate American Red Cross introduced a new high-powered arm juicer Monday designed to get every last drop of blood out of donors. “We’ve been struggling to find healthy donors, so...
What We Know About the New Task Force That Will Decide When, How to Reopen Region
United by an unprecedented pandemic that has forced the region into a standstill, a number of governors from the Northeast, including those of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, are coordinating efforts to reopen the region safely and strategically — although no one knows when...
Are ventilators being overused? Doctors weigh in
Ventilators are a first line of defense for COVID-19 patients, but are they overused? A new British study finds 66% of patients on ventilators died compared to those who get basic respiratory support. And as the United States scrambles for ventilators, some say slow down...
2 COVID-19 related deaths at Beverly senior care facility
CHICAGO — Two people at a Beverly senior care facility died due to COVID-19 over the weekend. In April 5, Smith Village, a senior living residence with an assisted care component, had its first confirmed case of the virus. There are currently 11 confirmed cases...
Latest coronavirus news for April 13, 2020: Live updates
Here’s what we know today about the continuing spread of coronavirus and its ripple effects in Chicago and Illinois. Illinois health officials on Monday said another 74 people have died from the coronavirus, bringing the state’s death toll to 794. There are also 1,173 new...
Behind Trump’s Botched And Delayed Coronavirus Response
Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps, the president on Jan. 22 played down the threat posed by the respiratory virus from China, which had just reached American shores in the form of a solitary patient in Washington state. “We...
How California has been ‘flattening the curve’ of coronavirus
The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. had barely surpassed 100 in March when a group of counties in the San Francisco Bay Area enacted a sweeping “shelter-in-place” order. The order had residents going to Google to find out what it meant. Fast-forward a month,...
Coronavirus updates: Stimulus checks on the way; US death toll tops 22K
It’s been one month since President Donald Trump declared coronavirus as a national emergency. Much has changed since March 13, when there were fewer than 2,000 confirmed cases. The U.S. numbers have since exploded, with more than 22,000 deaths — more than any other country...
Americans spend grim Easter Sunday at home as COVID-19 deaths near 22,000
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Americans spent a glum Easter Sunday largely confined to their homes by the still-raging coronavirus pandemic as the U.S. death toll neared 22,000, with more than half a million confirmed cases nationwide. With 42 states imposing strict stay-at-home orders most...
Inside the global race to prevent another depression
Economic firefighters around the world have a problem they’ve never seen before: a lightning-fast economic collapse strapped to a virulent global pandemic and wild, whipsawing financial markets threatening to amplify the damage. From Washington to Brussels to Frankfurt to Berlin and beyond, officials in advanced...
Florida’s coronavirus decision has deadly toll
MIAMI — You could find Beatriz Diaz at this spring’s Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach, giving out hand sanitizer. It was early March. She knew the coronavirus was beginning to make its way around the world, but she figured if she kept her hands...
A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump’s Promises Largely Unfulfilled
One month ago today, President Trump declared a national emergency. In a Rose Garden address, flanked by leaders from giant retailers and medical testing companies, he promised a mobilization of public and private resources to attack the coronavirus. “We’ve been working very hard on this....
Anticipation Over U.S. Attorney John Durham’s Investigation Builds
Anticipation over United States Attorney John Durham’s investigation is growing as Attorney General William Barr recently hinted he is building the case to prosecute people. “He is looking to bring to justice people who are engaged in abuses if he can show that they were...
Scientist Kizzmekia Corbett leads the way on COVID-19 vaccine trials with dedication and humor
The day President Donald Trump went to the National Institutes of Health for an update on progress toward a vaccine for COVID-19, many of those who sat behind the presidential seal with him were white men well known in the worlds of science, medicine and,...
Airport offers cardboard beds for travelers awaiting coronavirus test results
A makeshift cardboard box hotel has been set up at Japan’s Narita International Airport for travelers from abroad who can’t find room in a government site as they await their coronavirus test results, according to reports. The unsightly set-up in the airport’s baggage claim area...
China’s new coronavirus cases rise to near six-week high
BEIJING — China reported the highest number of new daily coronavirus cases in nearly six weeks, driven by a rise in infected travellers arriving from overseas and underscoring challenges Beijing faces in preventing a second wave of COVID-19. A total of 108 new coronavirus cases...
Coronavirus live updates: Trump retweets call to fire Fauci
While many countries around the world and cities in the U.S. are pointing toward positive signs that social distancing might be finally flattening the curve, the novel coronavirus death toll continues to be staggering with at least 113,000 dead worldwide. The U.S. is the global...
Trump’s Federalism: Save the Economy but Leave the States to Save Lives?
The Trump administration initially approached the pandemic knowing that national concern over the health issue would make the economy suffer. The thinking was “Let’s keep the American people from getting too alarmed about the virus, or the economy will take a hit.” Therefore, they intentionally...
Federal Reserve President: Coronavirus Pandemic Needs ’18-Month Strategy’
Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said that the government should have an “18-month strategy” to respond to the needs of the healthcare sector and the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying he doesn’t expect life to return fully to...
Nearly 600 USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailors Catch Coronavirus, Navy Evacuates
Around 580 crew members on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier have contracted coronavirus, prompting the ship to be evacuated. The U.S. Navy announced on Sunday that 3,967 sailors had been taken off the aircraft carrier in Guam, where it is docked. Those who...
U.S. Has Most Coronavirus Deaths In The World
The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus has surpassed Italy’s, putting America at No. 1 worldwide for the number of people killed by the strain. Data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center show the U.S. lost more than 20,600...
