Spain records its highest number of new coronavirus deaths
MADRID — Spain recorded on Tuesday 849 new coronavirus deaths, the highest number since the pandemic hit the southern European country, according to the country’s health ministry. With both new infections and deaths up around 11% each, to a total of 94,417 confirmed cases and...
San Diego County confirms 603 coronavirus cases
SAN DIEGO — The number of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County increased by 84 to 603 Monday, but the number of deaths remained at seven. The figures released Monday were skewed by the inability to send test results to the county government on weekends,...
The Inventor of Dyson Vacuum Cleaners Built a COVID-19 Ventilator in 10 Days
Sir James Dyson, the founder of Dyson Ltd., whose cordless vacuum cleaners and hairstyling products have charmed the world, has designed a hospital ventilator for treating severe COVID-19 patients in less than 10 days to fulfill the alarming shortage of this device worldwide. The Dyson...
Coronavirus: Is Bay Area social distancing lockdown working? Some see progress
Two weeks into the Bay Area’s first-in-the-nation public lockdown to slow the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, doctors and local health officials are anxiously debating a question with literal life-or-death consequences: Is it working? By some accounts, there are encouraging signs. Contra Costa County...
New Report Finds Americans Willing To Trust Scientific Knowledge Of Anyone Holding Glass Beaker Up To Light
WASHINGTON—A new report released Monday by the Pew Research Center Monday revealed that Americans were much more willing to trust the scientific knowledge of anyone holding a glass beaker up to the light. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a graduated cylinder or Erlenmeyer flask, if...
Two new road maps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns
This story originally appeared on STAT, a health and medicine website that provides ambitious coverage of the coronavirus. Go here for more stories on the virus. Try STAT Plus for exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences. With Covid-19 racing through the country,...
COVID-19 cases in Missouri top 1,000, Illinois cases now more than 5,000
ST. LOUIS — Cases of COVID-19 in the St. Louis region rose to more than 600 Monday as leaders in both Missouri and Illinois were pushing to increase testing and, in some cases, cracking down on parks and churches where large gatherings continued despite orders...
FDA boosting production of drugs to treat COVID-19 also needed for other illnesses
The FDA has approved two drugs to treat COVID-19 in hospitalized patients under an Emergency Use Authorization, as 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine and 1 million doses of chloroquine were donated by manufacturers to the strategic national stockpile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
For Downstate Illinois, coronavirus crisis ‘is going to devastate families’
The transient slaughterhouse workers of Beardstown still fill the rooms at the Budget Inn in the small central Illinois town, but the motel owner admits, beyond that “business is very slow.” Some 30 miles southeast in Jacksonville, a sewing supply shop has closed its doors,...
Stranded cruise ship hit by virus begs Florida for permission to dock
MIAMI — As a cruise ship stranded at sea with dozens sick and four dead makes for Florida, passengers who have been confined to their rooms for more than a week are anxious for relief, hoping Gov. Ron DeSantis will change his mind and allow...
Quarantine Together is a dating app for these times
(CNN) — If there has ever been a weird time to date, this is it. But even as millions of Americans stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, nothing is stopping them from dating online. Daniel Ahmadizadeh and Christopher Smeder designed Quarantine Together, a...
A grim picture of what could come in the US
President Donald Trump’s decision to extend social distancing guidelines until April 30 came after officials reviewed 12 different statistical models, said Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, during a Sunday press briefing. But standing in the Rose Garden, Birx also mentioned another...
Why are U.S. officials dismissive of protective covering?
In recent weeks, facing public uncertainty about coronavirus and a severe domestic shortage of medical-grade face masks, top Trump administration officials offered adamant warnings against widespread use of masks, going so far as to argue that members of the general public were more likely to...
Trump says coronavirus guidelines may get tougher; 1 million Americans tested
Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, said more than 1 million Americans had been tested for the coronavirus, which he called a milestone. The president announced on Sunday that the recommendations, which include encouraging people not go gather in groups larger than 10...
NYC sees a coronavirus death every 2.9 minutes in horrific six-hour stretch
The coronavirus death toll in New York City surged to 914 on Monday afternoon, accelerated by six hellish hours that saw the tally spike by 124 — or one death every 2.9 minutes. As of a 10:30 a.m. update from City Hall, the five boroughs...
Coronavirus strains rural hospitals ‘to the absolute limit’
Brad Huerta found himself vacuuming the halls of his rural Idaho hospital last week. As the CEO of Lost Rivers Medical Center, in Arco, Idaho, it’s not his normal job, nor is it normal for the maintenance staff to be directing traffic of patients coming...
Coronavirus updates: U.S. COVID-19 outbreak set to become world’s deadliest
The coronavirus outbreak in the United States is on pace to become the biggest and deadliest in the world on Tuesday. The death toll was already over 3,000 Monday night, just several hundred lower than in China. More than 500 deaths were added to the...
Coronavirus live updates: US Open tennis complex to house temporary hospital
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has infected over three-quarters of a million people around the world. The new respiratory virus, which causes an illness known officially as COVID-19, has rapidly spread to every continent except Antarctica since first emerging in China in December. There...
WHO Warns Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Far From Over’ in Asia-Pacifc
A senior official at the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus pandemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and said states must “keep preparing for large-scale community transmission.” Based on available data, the U.S. has now overtaken China as the epicenter of...
Coronavirus Latest: Amazon Fulfillment Center Employee In Baltimore Area Tests Positive For COVID-19
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An employee at an Amazon fulfillment center in the Baltimore area tested positive for coronavirus, the company said Monday night. CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES: Coronavirus Resources: How To Get Help In Maryland Coronavirus In Maryland: What We Know Coronavirus-Related Closings Latest coronavirus stories from...
NYC man sold personal protection gear at inflated prices, coughed on FBI agents and said he had coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has revealed heroes in every community. And then there’s this guy. A Brooklyn man who said he had COVID-19 coughed on FBI agents, and lied to them about personal protection equipment he was hoarding to try to make a buck, authorities said...
How the coronavirus shook Congress out of complacency
It was just hours before the start of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial when Sen. Tom Cotton began to panic. The Arkansas Republican had spent Martin Luther King Day weekend poring over news reports from Asia describing a new, highly infectious disease traced to a...
How 15 Days Became 45: Trump Extends Guidelines To Slow Coronavirus
Two weeks ago, President Trump entered the White House briefing room and announced an aggressive plan to slow the spread of the coronavirus. For 15 days, stay home, he told Americans. Avoid groups of more than 10 people. “If everyone makes this change, or these...
Pandemic Historian: Coronavirus ‘a Disease of Globalization’
The Chinese coronavirus “is emphatically a disease of globalization,” a pandemic historian at Yale University says. In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, Yale University’s Frank Snowden — a historian who most recently in 2006 published a book about Italy’s eradication of malaria...
98 people in NYC died from coronavirus in less than 7 hours
Nearly 100 more Big Apple residents died from the coronavirus since Sunday morning, raising the city’s death toll to 776, according to city data. From 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., the city tallied 98 more deaths and 1,166 more coronavirus cases, meaning 33,474 people in...
Mnuchin says checks from coronavirus bill coming “within 3 weeks”
Washington — Americans who are eligible to receive one-time payments from the federal government as part of a massive coronavirus economic relief package will see that money deposited into their bank accounts “within three weeks,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday. “We expect that within...
Coronavirus live updates: FDA gives drugs emergency approval to treat COVID-19
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 34,000 people across the globe. The new respiratory virus, which causes an illness known officially as COVID-19, has rapidly spread to every continent except Antartica since first emerging in China back in...
President Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Until April 30
President Donald Trump said during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference Sunday evening from the White House that he is extending social distancing guidelines to April 30. He also said that he expects the death toll to peak in two weeks and America to be...
Wuhan COVID-19 Deaths May Be in Tens of Thousands, Data on Cremations Show
stack of urns at a funeral home in Wuhan, the city’s official cremation rates, and reports of an overwhelmed health care system have prompted speculation that Wuhan’s real COVID-19 death toll could be in the tens of thousands—despite the Chinese government reporting 2,535 deaths from...
Survivalists say they were ready for COVID-19
The virus was far away then, barely registering in the minds of most Kentuckians. People still ate at restaurants and watched basketball and talked about politics and planned for that first Saturday in May. That all changed, of course. And Sutton was ready for it....