China wins key seat to UN Human Rights council despite troubled record, disastrous coronavirus response
China has won a seat on a panel on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, where it will help vet candidates for important posts — despite its decades-long record of systematic human rights abuse that the U.S. has said fueled the coronavirus pandemic. Jiang Duan,...
HIV drug leronlimab, which successfully treats coronavirus, moving to phase 2 trials
An experimental HIV drug that has been used to successfully treat COVID-19 patients is in its second phase of testing with the Food and Drug Administration, its manufacturer says. Leronlimab, made by the biotech company CytoDyn, was used to treat a handful of severely ill...
Here are the stay-at-home orders in every state
The White House and all prominent public health officials have urged people across the country to stay at home as much as possible to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Nonetheless, governors of five states have yet to issue lockdown orders for their residents, and...
Coronavirus live updates: Coast Guard oversees disembarkation of 250,000 passengers
The death toll amid the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to skyrocket as more than 7,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19. There are at least 278,458 diagnosed cases in the U.S. and more than 1.1 million around the world. The actual number...
The Deadliest Day in America’s Outbreak: 1,400 New Coronavirus Deaths
The U.S. reported more than 7,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Friday. At least 30,000 new cases of the novel virus infections have brought the total number of infections to 278,000. Friday represented the deadliest day in America’s outbreak, with more than 1,400 new deaths reported....
Trump jokes about hooking up with models during coronavirus briefing
President Trump joked about being “involved in” models during a coronavirus briefing at the White House on Friday. The quip came while the president was fielding questions about the trajectory of the pandemic. Who’s the biggest COVIDIOT of them all — you be the judge...
German restaurant chain Vapiano files for insolvency
German restaurant franchise company Vapiano (VAO.DE) said on Thursday it had applied to start insolvency proceedings, becoming another high street casualty of a national coronavirus lockdown that is expected to remain in force for weeks. Parent company Vapiano SE said it had filed for insolvency...
Thomas Cook Aviation: Airline bankruptcy due to corona pandemic
With the airline Thomas Cook Aviation it has now hit the first German airline – it is filing for bankruptcy. “Focus” reports, citing a video message from the management. According to the magazine, airline boss Ralf S. Nagel said that the company is seeking bankruptcy...
Jared Kushner Says States Should Have Planned Ahead Before Joining The Union
WASHINGTON—Speaking at a press conference to address the growing Covid-19 pandemic, White House senior advisor Jared Kushner admonished resource-stricken states this week that they should have shown some foresight and planned ahead before joining the Union. “To any governors coming to me and saying the...
Was it flu or the coronavirus? FDA authorizes first COVID-19 antibody test
That raspy cough, chest tightness and fever you battled last month — was that just a bug? Or were you infected with the novel coronavirus? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just made it easier to find out. The agency has issued its first emergency-use...
Singer Pink reveals she had coronavirus, donates $1 million to hospitals
Pink revealed that she had coronavirus in tweets Friday night. “Two weeks ago my three-year-old son, Jameson, and I were showing symptoms of COVID-19,” the singer wrote. “Fortunately, our primary care physician had access to tests and I tested positive.” Pink sheltered in place for...
That coronavirus baby boom? Experts say it’s unlikely
Will we see a “baby boom” nine months later, since so many couples are cooped up inside with nowhere to go? Sure, this kind of trend has been reported before. But demographers think it’s unlikely to occur this time around. In fact, they say the...
Trump Fires Inspector General Who Sounded Alarm On Ukraine Call
President Donald Trump has notified the Senate Intelligence Committee that he is firing Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community who was the first to alert Congress to an urgent whistleblower complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president last year. In...
Potential coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by University of Pittsburgh scientists
In the race to find a vaccine to combat the aggressive spread of the novel coronavirus, scientists with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may have found a potential option. With funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute...
Coronavirus updates: US death toll passes 7,100; March job losses hit 701,000
Health authorities changed their position Friday on the widespread use of non-medical masks and federal emergency workers say they are working around-the-clock to meet demand for medical supplies in an increasingly deadly COVID-19 outbreak in New York. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now...
‘Crazy amounts of chicken’ and masks – a small Washington grocer’s typical day
(Reuters) – A tall, surgical mask-wearing young man stands at the entrance as customers line up outside. A sign at the door – illustrated with stick figures drawn by the co-owner’s 6-year-old daughter – warns clients they can only come in three at a time....
How Trump surprised his own team by ruling out Obamacare
As coronavirus ran rampant and record jobless numbers piled up, the nation’s health insurers last week readied for a major announcement: The Trump administration was reopening Obamacare to millions of newly uninsured Americans. It was an announcement that never came. The White House instead rejected...
Hell is Coming and We Sold Out Our National Security For A Few Dollars
Executive Summary: Two weeks ago we predicted that the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 would reach 20,000 by April 15th. The following article explains why. Article: I am furious and frustrated. Once the greatest country on the face of this planet, the United States is...
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...
Prime Minister of Georgia explains why the country has had no deaths from coronavirus
As the coronavirus body count continues to rise around the world, one country that is remarkably bereft of any official deaths: the former Soviet country of Georgia. Article by Fox News Implementing travel bans from hotspot countries as early as January, was key to their low...
New York Gov. Cuomo says state saw its biggest single-day increase in coronavirus deaths on Thursday
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that 2,935 New Yorkers have died from the coronavirus so far with 562 new deaths over the last 24 hours That was a 23% jump and the single-biggest daily increase in deaths in the state since the outbreak began a...
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...
