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”...
Coronavirus deaths top 5,000 in US as more states issue stay-at-home orders
Grim news of coronavirus infections and fatalities continued in the U.S. on Wednesday, with the number of confirmed cases rising above 200,000 and the number of deaths surpassing 5,000. The fatalities for Wednesday alone topped 1,000 — a one-day toll more than double that usually...
San Francisco order bans reusable bags from grocery stores in effort to fight coronavirus
San Francisco, one of the cities hardest-hit by the coronavirus, banned reusable shopping bags Wednesday in a set of beefed-up social distancing protocols as part of the city’s extension of its stay-at-home order, meant to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, until May 3. The...
County in China locks down amid concerns of potential second coronavirus wave
A county in central China has reportedly gone into a mid-sized lockdown amid fears of a second coronavirus wave as Beijing is trying to emerge from the deadly outbreak and revive its economy. Roughly 600,000 residents near the city of Pingdingshan in Jia County were...
Coronavirus: Australian scientists begin tests of potential vaccines
Scientists in Australia have begun testing two potential coronavirus vaccines in “milestone” lab trials. The vaccines, made by Oxford University and US company Inovio Pharmaceutical, have been cleared for animal testing by the World Health Organization. Australia’s national science agency will assess if the vaccines...
Coronavirus: US death toll exceeds 5,000
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the US has gone above 5,000, while confirmed cases worldwide are close to reaching one million. There were 884 deaths in the US in 24 hours, a new record, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked...
Coronavirus: A visual guide to the pandemic
There are now more than 900,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in 180 countries and at least 45,000 people have died. The United States now has more confirmed cases than any other single country, including China where the disease emerged in December 2019. Europe has also...
Tablighi Jamaat: The group blamed for new Covid-19 outbreak in India
The Tablighi Jamaat have come into the spotlight after an event they held in the Indian capital Delhi has spawned a number of Covid-19 clusters across the country. But exactly who is this group and why did they hold a big gathering in Delhi? BBC...
Coronavirus forces postponement of COP26 meeting in Glasgow
A key climate summit in Glasgow will be delayed until next year due to disruption caused by the coronavirus. The announcement was made in a joint statement from the UK and UN after a “virtual” meeting of officials. Dozens of world leaders were due to...
Coronavirus: Oil prices rise on hopes of a price war truce
Global oil prices have risen after Donald Trump said he expected Saudi Arabia and Russia to reach a deal soon to end their price war. The cost of crude had fallen to 18-year lows as the two countries slashed prices and ramped up production. At...
Coronavirus: Donald Trump admits protective gear running out as US cases soar
The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States has risen above 5,000, while the number of confirmed cases has topped 216,000 — according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The figures came on the day Vice President Mike Pence said White House models showed...
Debunked: Claims a new virus has emerged from China are false
As China looks to rebuild following the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, false rumours have spread that a new virus has emerged in the country. According to the Global Times, Chinese state media, one fatal case of “Hantavirus” was reported in Shandong province on March...
How has the EU responded to the economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic?
The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. For the first time in history, the EU suspended its fiscal rules on public deficits and the European Central Bank launched a 750 billion euros stimulus package. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Europe, and...
Coronavirus backlash for Instagram model Yulia Ushakova as she wears swimsuit made out of in-demand medical masks
A RUSSIAN bodybuilder and fitness model has been slammed for posing in a swimsuit made from sought after masks and a respirator. Yulia Ushakova posted the coronavirus crisis inspired image on Instagram before joking about the two-piece with her 515,000 Instagram followers. Captioning the image,...
In Panama, coronavirus lockdown means separating men and women
Panama is taking a new — if somewhat unorthodox — measure to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus: separation of the sexes. Starting on Wednesday, only women will be able to leave their homes to buy necessities on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Men in...
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...
Governor Newsom: COVID-19 patients in ICUs have quadrupled, hospitalizations have tripled in last six days
Gov. Gavin Newsom opened a wide-ranging discussion on California’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday with updated statistics on the number of patients with COVID-19 in intensive care unit beds around the state. Newsom said 774 people in California are in ICU beds on Wednesday,...
Coast Guard: Cruise ships must stay at sea with sick onboard
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has directed all cruise ships to prepare to treat any sick passengers and crew on board while being sequestered “indefinitely” offshore during the coronavirus pandemic. The new rules require daily updates on each ship’s coronavirus caseload...
Trump’s Breakdown vs Covid-19
Before Herbert Hoover earned a reputation as a tragic failure, he had a reputation for heroic success—a can-do businessman who arrived in the presidency with no previous elective experience. He was one of the most celebrated men of his times. Then times changed. “Ambition and...