Two years before coronavirus, CDC warned of a coming pandemic
WASHINGTON — Two years ago, some of the nation’s top public health officials gathered in an auditorium at Emory University in Atlanta to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic — also known as “the Spanish flu” — which had killed as many as 40 million people...
NYC’s 24 hours of coronavirus hell
By Friday night, the bruised Big Apple had its biggest spike in coronavirus cases and deaths in a single, 24-hour period since the outbreak hit New York last month. A staggering 6,582 additional people tested positive for the deadly bug since Thursday evening, bringing the...
Trump administration’s lack of a unified coronavirus strategy will cost lives, say a dozen experts
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s decision to let states chart their own responses to the coronavirus crisis rather than impose a national strategy will cost thousands of lives and is likely to result in an open-ended outbreak rolling across the country, a dozen public health...
Coronavirus government response updates: Trump says CDC advises Americans wear masks
As the coronavirus task force weighs additional measures to take amid the pandemic, President Donald Trump continued to resist a nationwide stay-at-home directive, despite his top health official stressing more strongly than ever that strict social distancing is key to saving American lives. He also...
ANTI-PARASITE DRUG USED SINCE 1980S MAY HELP STOP CORONAVIRUS, NEW STUDY SAYS
Australian researchers have published a study showing a drug commonly used to treat parasite infections can also kill coronavirus in a laboratory setting in under 48 hours. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have discovered that the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin can inhibit replication of...
Biden suggests Democratic Convention will be delayed amid coronavirus pandemic
For the second time in two days, former Vice President Joe Biden has suggested that the Democratic National Convention, currently scheduled for mid-July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will need to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic — seemingly putting the party’s leading presidential candidate at...
Houston hasn’t reported a surge of coronavirus cases. But its hospitals tell a different story.
HOUSTON — Two weeks ago, Houston Methodist Hospital opened a special unit to treat critically ill coronavirus patients. The city had reported only a handful of confirmed cases at that point, but the hospital’s 24-bed coronavirus ICU filled up in only about a week, far...
U.S. economy lost over 700,000 jobs in March, ending decadelong streak of employment gains
The U.S. economy lost a total of 701,000 jobs in March, bringing a record 10-year streak of employment gains to a halt as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hammer the workforce and shatter economic growth. The closely watched monthly jobs data, released Friday by the...
100,000 New Yorkers have coronavirus, death toll nears 3,000
ALBANY — The horrific toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking on the Empire State continued to climb Friday as the number of cases soared past 100,000 and officials reported the disease has claimed nearly 3,000 New Yorkers. State officials reported that 2,935 people have died...
Coronavirus lawsuits just ‘tip of the iceberg’
The coronavirus pandemic is imperiling more than lives and livelihoods. It’s also leading to lawsuits. Workers are suing companies. Businesses are suing insurers. Prison inmates and migrants in detention, abortion providers and gun shop owners are suing federal and state governments. Colleges, cruise lines and...
MESS: STIMULUS STUMBLES OUT THE GATE
The national unemployment rate has risen faster than it has in decades, the government announced Friday, as the Trump administration struggled to move forward with new policies to reduce the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. One week ago, Congress authorized bigger unemployment benefits, $1,200...
Top administration officials said last year threat of pandemic kept them up at night
Washington (CNN)Two top administration officials last year listed the threat of a pandemic as an issue that greatly worried them, undercutting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the coronavirus pandemic was an unforeseen problem. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Tim Morrison, then...
U.S. Unemployment Claims Hit Another Record High
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she’s creating a new House committee to oversee the coronavirus response that will have subpoena power to seek information from the Trump administration. “It would have subpoena power that’s for sure. It’s no use having a committee unless you...
The Coronavirus Doesn’t Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases
The new coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say that in the response to the pandemic, they can already see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias. In one analysis, it appears doctors may be...
Many Americans may have to wait months for coronavirus relief checks
The first Americans to get relief payments from the government under the coronavirus legislation signed into law last month won’t see the money until at least the week of April 13, according to new estimates from the Trump administration provided to House Democrats and outlined...
Coronavirus live updates: 50,000 dead worldwide
Pelosi announces new House committee to oversee coronavirus response House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her intention to create a bipartisan House committee to oversee the federal response to the coronavirus crisis, led by Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina, the majority whip. Pelosi told reporters...
Exclusive: Military Fears Domestic Spying As Trump Orders Mexico Mission
U.S. armed forces struggles to keep up with demands for assistance in coronavirus response while also dealing with its own outbreak, President Donald Trump has ordered a significant increase in counter-narcotics and border control operations—an increase that will strain already limited resources but also push...
6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment last week — another record high
More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus. The stunning report Thursday from the Labor Department showed that job...
Who Lives And Who Dies If Hospitals Run Out Of Ventilators? And Who Decides? NY State Report Offers Clues
With an ever-increasing number of critically ill COVID-19 patients, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have repeatedly refused to lay out plans for decision-making if New York runs out of ventilators. But for many hospitals and doctors, it’s not a question of “if”...
Market Basket is limiting the number of customers allowed in each of their supermarkets
Market Basket is implementing three new measures in an effort to improve social distancing at its supermarkets amid the coronavirus outbreak, the company announced Wednesday evening. One of the measures caps the number of shoppers allowed in each supermarket; the number will vary based on...
As U.S. Struggles to Fight COVID-19 At Home, China, Russia See Opportunity
China and Russia are using the coronavirus pandemic to position themselves as world leaders while the United States turns its focus to domestic matters to battle the infectious disease, experts on geopolitical affairs and a senior U.S. intelligence official briefed on the matter told Newsweek....
EMTs have stopped taking people in cardiac arrest to coronavirus-strained hospitals
Cardiac arrest victims whose hearts cannot be restarted at the scene are now being left there — rather than being brought to coronavirus-strained hospitals for further revival attempts, according to a new guidance for medical responders. The Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York,...
Battlefield Medicine’: NY, NJ Doctors and Patients See Anecdotal Evidence of Hydroxychloroquine Benefits in Fighting Coronavirus
Doctors who have treated a combined total of over 425 confirmed or presumptive Chinese coronavirus patients with the drug hydroxychloroquine told Breitbart News they are finding the medication to be helpful. The doctors stressed that more long-term studies are needed to draw concrete scientific conclusions...
The Science Behind A 14-Day Quarantine After Possible COVID-19 Exposure
To stop the spread of the coronavirus, health officials have a favorite refrain: After being in a city or region where there have been a lot of COVID-19 cases, spend 14 days in quarantine even if you feel perfectly fine — don’t leave your house....
Despite calls for global cooperation, US and China fight over leading coronavirus response
The U.S. and Chinese governments have increasingly turned the novel coronavirus pandemic into a contest over their primacy as the world’s leading humanitarian force, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlighting U.S. contributions to global aid agencies Tuesday and pushing back on Chinese propaganda about...
Britain faces testing crunch as crisis worsens
Despite countless promises to “ramp up testing,” numbers have remained stubbornly low as the government has struggled with both its capacity to increase testing and its ability to convince Brits that its strategy will work. While the British government is now pledging to roll out...
Most Americans huddle indoors as coronavirus deaths keep spiking
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four new states imposed sweeping stay-at-home directives on Wednesday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, putting over 80% of Americans under lockdown as the number of deaths in the United States nearly doubled in three days. The governors of Florida, Georgia,...
More than 1,000 in US die in a single day from coronavirus
The U.S. topped 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time Wednesday, a daily death toll more than double that of two of America’s most deadly illnesses – lung cancer and the flu. Death counts from the virus are difficult to keep...
Trump says he can’t confirm Beijing government’s coronavirus numbers amid claims of underreporting
President Trump said Wednesday he could not confirm the veracity of the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths being reported by China, as he warned Americans to brace for more “horrific” days in dealing with the virus. While Trump said the numbers being reported by...
Coronavirus Deaths Mount In New York
New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to more than 1,900 and the wail of ambulances in the otherwise eerily quiet streets of the city became the...
