Less than 20% of NYC hospital beds empty amid second COVID-19 surge
The number of available hospital beds are dwindling as a second surge of the coronavirus grips the New York City region, new state data reveals. The percentage of beds available in both New York City and Long Island is under 20 percent, according to the...
Sanders: Bipartisan COVID-19 relief deal ‘not acceptable’
Many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed optimism and support for the emerging deal. Moderate Senators admitted the proposal outlined would upset partisans on both sides, but is a necessary compromise as the country faces rising COVID-19 case counts and economic pain....
ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources
Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment, and a move that the agency’s former chief...
Biden will urge Americans to wear face coverings, take COVID vaccine, but won’t make them mandatory
“I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory, but I would do everything in my power — it’s like I don’t think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide,” Biden replied. And he vowed that he’d “do everything in...
San Francisco Bay Area to begin month-long COVID-19 lockdown
Health officials in the San Francisco Bay Area have ordered lockdown for the region’s 8.5 million residents beginning Sunday night and lasting into the first week of 2021. The stay-at-home restrictions in five counties — which include San Francisco, Oakland and Silicon Valley — require...
Fauci, Birx voice dire post-Thanksgiving warnings on COVID surge
Top federal officials voiced dire predictions of a nationwide post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID cases on Sunday. “What we expect, unfortunately, as we go forward the next couple of weeks into December, (is) that we might see a surge superimposed upon that surge that we’re already...
US hits four million monthly Covid-19 cases as Fauci warns of holiday surge
The United States passed four million cases of the coronavirus for November on Saturday, more than double the record 1.9 million cases set in October. Now experts have warned Americans to expect that sharp rise in cases to continue, due in part to the Thanksgiving...
Inside a hospital as the coronavirus surges: Where will all the patients go?
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — As the coronavirus pandemic swelled around the 160-bed Mayo Clinic hospital, the day was dawning auspiciously. Two precious beds for new patients had opened overnight. At the morning “bed meeting,” prospects for a third looked promising. Better yet, by midmorning, there...
Kim Jong Un is cutting off his economic lifeline, China, to stave off Covid-19
Kim Jong Un appears to have kicked North Korea’s pandemic prevention plan into overdrive, further tightening the country’s nearly impassible borders, cutting off nearly all trade with China, and even allegedly executing a customs official for failing to handle imported goods appropriately. Beijing exported just...
Leaderless America slips deep into grim pandemic winter
America is sliding into a winter limbo of alarming spikes in Covid-19 cases and deepening economic pain while an apathetic lame duck White House and a deadlocked Congress provide no political leadership. The darkest holiday season in modern history beckons, yet President Donald Trump and...
Billionaires Grow Wealth By Over $1 Trillion Since Pandemic Began
Billionaires in the U.S. have grown their wealth by over a third — or by more than $1 trillion — since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nation in March, a new report finds. At the same time, the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic...
Supreme Court blocks COVID-19 limits on NY houses of worship
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court placed religious freedom before pandemic precautions Wednesday night, temporarily blocking recent rules in New York that severely restricted gatherings at houses of worship in areas hit hardest by COVID-19. The court’s new, more conservative majority ruled 5-4 that Gov. Andrew...
Millions traveling for Thanksgiving despite surging Covid-19 cases
hanksgiving travel is surging as new coronavirus cases approach 200,000 a day in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance on Thursday urging Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. But millions of people are still planning to travel over...
Biden’s margin of victory widens as Trump’s subversion efforts grow more frantic
Overturning elections sounds like the stuff of secret deals in smoke-filled rooms, but President Donald Trump’s not even trying to hide his effort to subvert the results of the election as President-elect Joe Biden’s margin widens to more than 6 million votes. Trump’s efforts to...
Patriarch dies from Covid after leading open-casket funeral of bishop killed by virus
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, died in a Belgrade hospital on Friday after contracting coronavirus, according to a statement from the church. Irinej, who was 90, led an open-casket funeral service for the church’s top cleric in Montenegro, Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović,...
U.S. surpasses 12 million cases of Covid-19
The United States topped 12 million cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, as the third wave’s uncontrolled spread prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. The country recorded more than 200,000 coronavirus cases over the last 24...
Ben Carson says he is ‘out of the woods’ after being ‘desperately ill’ from COVID
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, was “extremely sick” and “desperately ill,” according to a post on his Facebook page Friday morning. “Thank you everyone for your support and prayers as Candy and I battled COVID-19....
Trump continues to blast election count claiming
Trump continues to blast election count claiming there was a suspicious dump of votes in Wisconsin for Biden the day after polls closed – as he pays $3 million for partial recount in the state On Wednesday, the Trump campaign coughed up $3 million for...
What to Know About the Timing and Distribution of Coronavirus Vaccines
BACK-AND-FORTH announcements from two major companies – Pfizer and Moderna – about the high efficacy of their coronavirus vaccines has peaked hope in a possible light at the end of the tunnel as the U.S. experiences more infections than ever before, but questions remain about...
A Covid-19 vaccine is on track to roll out in December. Here’s how that will work.
Following the release of more data from its Covid-19 vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial, the drugmaker Pfizer said Wednesday that it expects to submit an application for what’s called emergency use authorization to the Food and Drug Administration “within days.” Another drugmaker, Moderna, has also...
SUIT: MEAT BOSSES PLACED BETS ON WORKER COVID COUNT
A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections at Tyson Foods’ largest pork processing plant accuses the meatpacking giant of ordering employees to come to work while supervisors privately bet money on how many would get infected with the deadly coronavirus. The family of Isidro...
Coronavirus updates: US reaches 250K COVID deaths; New York City schools to close again; Kentucky toughens restrictions
The nation’s largest public school system will temporarily halt in-person learning again in an effort to stem the continued spread of COVID-19, according to New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. The news came on an Wednesday when the U.S. surpassed 250,000 deaths from the...
n Less Than A Week, The US Went From 10 Million Coronavirus Cases To 11 Million
The US has careened past 11 million recorded cases of the coronavirus, adding one million new cases in just the past week as the country faces an alarming acceleration in spread. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, the US hit the 11-million mark...
COVID Latest Updates: Biden Implores Americans To Wear Masks
The coronavirus continues to disrupt daily life around the globe, with more than 50.5 million people confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 since Chinese officials implemented the first coronavirus lockdown in the city of Wuhan in January. But Monday brought some potentially good news: Pfizer released...
Fast virus tests at French nursing homes as deaths rise anew
“I cry every day,” said Patricia Deliry, 81, whose daughter usually provides daily assistance at her Paris care home but has been kept away for the past two weeks as part of the home’s virus protection efforts. Deliry hasn’t been able to see fellow residents...
Iran’s daily death toll hits new record amid ‘third wave’
Iran has reported its highest daily death toll from Covid-19, as the country grapples with what officials have called a “third wave” of its outbreak. Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said 337 people had died in the past 24 hours, exceeding the previous daily...
Coronavirus: Argentina’s confirmed cases surpass one million
Argentina has become the fifth country in the world to record one million confirmed coronavirus cases. In the past 24 hours, there were 12,982 new infections, pushing the overall number to 1,002,662, the country’s health ministry said. It reported 451 new deaths, bringing the nation’s...
Coronavirus: Belgium facing ‘tsunami’ of new infections
Belgium could soon be overwhelmed by new coronavirus infections, the health minister has warned, amid soaring case numbers across the country. Frank Vandenbroucke said new cases were close to a “tsunami” where authorities “no longer control what is happening”. New measures to try to halt...
Coronavirus: Republic of Ireland to move to highest restrictions
The Irish government is to move the country to the highest level of coronavirus restrictions, broadly similar to the spring lockdown. Cabinet ministers have agreed to level five restrictions from midnight on Wednesday in a bid to combat the rise in cases. The restrictions are...
Covid-19: Protests as Argentina’s cases pass 900,000
Thousands have joined anti-government protests in Argentina as confirmed coronavirus infections continue to rise, passing 900,000 on Monday. Many Argentines are angry at the government’s handling of the crisis and the economic effect of lockdowns, as well as issues such as corruption. A strict lockdown...