WHO will be asked ‘tough questions’ about how it dropped the ball on pandemic: Pence
Vice President Mike Pence told “Hannity” Wednesday night that the U.S. will ask “tough questions” of the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic after the global health agency’s director warned President Trump and other world leaders against “politicizing” the outbreak....
Stocks sees gains over optimism that pandemic’s worst is over
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. U.S. equity futures are pointing to a higher open on Thursday on optimism that the coronavirus pandemic may be peaking. The major futures indexes are indicating a gain...
Syrian Air Force Launched Chemical Attacks On Civilians, Watchdog Says
THE HAGUE (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog issued a report Wednesday blaming the Syrian air force for a series of chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 on the central town of Latamneh. The report marks the first time the...
This hospital is so overwhelmed two patients have died in the hallways, workers say
A Detroit hospital has been so overwhelmed by the influx of Covid-19 patients that at least 2 people have died in its emergency room hallways before help can arrive, health care workers there told CNN. CNN spoke with five hospital workers at Sinai-Grace Hospital, part...
Trump offers two dangerous falsehoods in a largely straightforward briefing
Over the past few weeks, President Donald Trump’s coronavirus briefings have become a daily occurrence at the White House. They’ve also become regular venues for falsehoods, misleading information, revisionist history and outright lies. By CNN’s rough estimate, over the past three weeks Trump has made...
Scientists say warmer weather won’t stop coronavirus
With health experts warning that warmer months won’t bring an end to coronavirus, officials are developing a framework for what America’s new normal could look like. President Trump has previously claimed that increased temperatures will bring an end to the virus. But members of a...
Chaos rocks White House on virus’ most tragic day
The chaos and confusion rocking President Donald Trump’s administration on the most tragic day yet of the coronavirus pandemic was exceptional even by his own standards. Trump set out Tuesday to cement his image of a wartime leader facing down an “invisible enemy” at a...
Wisconsin GOP Forced Thousands Of Voters To The Polls During A Pandemic
Lines outside Milwaukee’s five polling stations — there were usually 180 — stretched blocks. In Madison, Wisconsin, polling stations usually occupied by university students were almost entirely empty, as resident halls were cleared out weeks ago. Poll workers sat behind Plexiglas barriers, donning masks and...
Trump slams health body as ‘China-centric’ and inept, may suspend funding
President Trump slammed the World Health Organization (WHO) for its “China-centric” views Tuesday, adding that the global health agency’s projections and pronouncements about the coronavirus pandemic has been routinely wrong. In an interview with Fox News’ “Hannity,” Trump said that the WHO had “strongly recommended”...
Black people are overwhelmingly dying from coronavirus in cities across the US
WASHINGTON — Black Americans are overwhelmingly dying of coronavirus at much higher rates compared to other Americans in some major cities, but most federal officials and states are not keeping track or releasing racial data on coronavirus victims, raising concerns about care for the nation’s...
Special Report: How federal snafus slowed testing at a top U.S. hospital
In early March, people began arriving with symptoms of COVID-19. One complained of a cough and had just returned from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak erupted. An elderly patient, already on end-of-life care, had a mysterious respiratory infection. Another, struggling to breathe, had...
How Europe failed the coronavirus test
Europe, in early April, remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic — where the outbreak, uncontrolled, morphed into catastrophe. Nearly 50,000 dead. More than 600,000 infected. And the devastation is far from over. The world’s largest economy is paralyzed. The planet’s most open societies are...
Trump Touts Administration’s Pandemic Handling
President Trump acknowledged that he learned only recently about a warning earlier this year from a top adviser about the risks of the coronavirus — but he defended his actions on Tuesday at a news conference. “I couldn’t have done it any better,” Trump said...
Entire Pennsylvania nursing home feared to have coronavirus
A Pennsylvania nursing home has reportedly opted to operate under the presumption that its entire resident population and whole staff may be infected with the coronavirus. Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, in Beaver, Pa., announced its decision on Monday, explaining that the directive will help...
Key Trump coronavirus task force must work remotely after positive COVID-19 test
A critical White House unit that is getting, shipping and distributing goods to fight the spread of the coronavirus has been ordered to vacate its war room and begin working remotely after a “partner” of the group tested positive for COVID-19, according to an email...
Coronavirus lockdowns have sent pollution plummeting
Traffic-free roads, plane-free skies and widespread brick-and-mortar closings have made the planet a beneficiary of the coronavirus pandemic — but only in the short term. Li Shuo, senior climate and energy policy officer at Greenpeace in Beijing, said it’s not time to “pop the champagne...
Trump aide Peter Navarro says ‘second opinion’ needed on Fauci’s view of anti-malaria drug
WASHINGTON – A senior aide to President Donald Trump is publicly pushing back against National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci’s assertion that it’s unclear whether an anti-malaria drug can be used to combat coronavirus. Peter Navarro, the top trade and manufacturing...
With hospitals stressed, U.S. enters ‘peak death week’ in coronavirus crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States entered what an official called the “peak death week” of the coronavirus on Monday while a watchdog report said hospitals were struggling to maintain and expand capacity to care for infected patients. The U.S. death toll, which topped 10,000...
Dems find a rallying cry: Trump tanked the economy
For most of the presidential campaign, the economy looked like the one thing that could overcome Donald Trump’s stubbornly low approval ratings and carry him to a second term. Even many Democrats acknowledged they had no cohesive economic message of their own. But now that...
Hospitals Are Sourcing Masks From Auto Body Shops, HHS Inspector General Finds
Hospitals are trying to make their own disinfectant from in-house chemicals, running low on toilet paper and food, and trying to source face masks from nail salons. Those are some of the findings from a snapshot survey of how America’s hospitals are handling the coronavirus...
Trump administration is battling coronavirus without a war room
A deadly virus was spreading in China, killing 40% of its victims and threatening to burst into a major outbreak. In the U.S., the pandemic preparedness team at the White House’s National Security Council (NSC) was tracking it daily, even as President Trump took office...
Coronavirus Numbers Appear to Be Stabilizing; Keep Social Distancing
President Donald Trump and his coronavirus task force on Sunday noted that the number of infections and deaths from the virus is stabilizing in many areas, offering Americans some hope. “As you can see from the hopeful signs in Italy and Spain, where we see,...
Bill Gates calls coronavirus pandemic a ‘nightmare scenario
“Well, if we do the social distancing properly, we should be able to get out of this with the death number well short of that,” Gates said on “Fox News Sunday.” “This is a nightmare scenario because human-to-human transmittal respiratory viruses can grow exponentially,” he...
U.S. deaths near 10,000 as officials warn of hard week ahead
With the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the United States nearing 10,000 on Monday, the country’s top medical officials warned the worst was yet to come. The number of cases has ballooned to 337,752 — nearly three times higher than the second-worst...
WITH THE U.S. PREOCCUPIED AND POOR NATIONS BRACING FOR PANDEMIC
While Europe and North America battle to turn the tide of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the virus is also taking hold in the developing world where governments are far less able to fight back. No country can face the pandemic alone. Even the U.S. is...
The Note: Wisconsin primary offers warnings about November realities
Leave it to Wisconsin to deliver political lessons neither party is quite ready to learn. Barring last-minute legislative or judicial action, voters will cast ballots in person across Wisconsin on Tuesday. It’s a primary nobody — least of all medical professionals — really wants, but...
Coronavirus updates: US braces for ‘Pearl Harbor moment’ even as deaths dip in New York
The nation was bracing Sunday for it deadliest week in what the surgeon general called “our Pearl Harbor moment” as the trajectory of coronavirus cases continued its climb, but there were hints of improvement in the nation’s “hot spot” of New York. In Italy, Pope...
U.S. braces for ‘hardest, saddest’ week as coronavirus deaths surpass 9,300
New York, the hardest-hit state, reported on Sunday that there were nearly 600 new deaths for a total of 4,159 deaths and 122,000 total cases. Bodies of victims of COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, were stacked in bright orange bags inside...
Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plead for aid
The federal government’s top public health spokesman invoked World War II as the U.S. heads into a new, deadlier phase of the coronavirus pandemic, warning in interviews Sunday that this is a “Pearl Harbor moment.” Surgeon General Jerome Adams also told states that are still...
Brett Crozier, tested positive for coronavirus before he was removed from command, according to a report.
Crozier began exhibiting symptoms before he was removed from the ship on Thursday, the New York Times reported on Sunday morning, citing two of Crozier’s close friends. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Crozier on Thursday, after a memo he wrote urging Navy leaders to get...