Federal Reserve President: Coronavirus Pandemic Needs ’18-Month Strategy’
Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said that the government should have an “18-month strategy” to respond to the needs of the healthcare sector and the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying he doesn’t expect life to return fully to...
Nearly 600 USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailors Catch Coronavirus, Navy Evacuates
Around 580 crew members on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier have contracted coronavirus, prompting the ship to be evacuated. The U.S. Navy announced on Sunday that 3,967 sailors had been taken off the aircraft carrier in Guam, where it is docked. Those who...
U.S. Has Most Coronavirus Deaths In The World
The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus has surpassed Italy’s, putting America at No. 1 worldwide for the number of people killed by the strain. Data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center show the U.S. lost more than 20,600...
Coronavirus in NY: Nurses working in dangerous conditions demand PPE from Cuomo
New York State nurses and other hospital workers are being exposed to “dangerous working conditions” amid the coronavirus pandemic because of “critical shortages” of personal protective gear, and they want “urgent action” from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to provide them with the equipment they need. That’s...
Trump issues major disaster in all 50 states for the first time in history
President Trump issued a major disaster declaration for Wyoming on Saturday, meaning that there is now such a declaration within all 50 states due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time a president has ever declared a major disaster in all 50 states...
In grim milestone, United States logs world’s highest coronavirus death toll
The grim milestone was reached as President Donald Trump mulled over when the country, which has registered more than half a million infections, might begin to see a return to normality. The United States has seen its highest death tolls to date in the epidemic...
IRS deposits first wave of stimulus checks
(CNN)The Internal Revenue Service sent out the first wave of stimulus checks to Americans on Saturday, the agency said. “#IRS deposited the first Economic Impact Payments into taxpayers’ bank accounts today. We know many people are anxious to get their payments; we’ll continue issuing them...
NYT’s coronavirus report shows how Trump ‘could have seen what was coming’
(CNN)A new report on the Trump administration’s missteps in the early days of the coronavirus’ spread into the US was published in the New York Times on Saturday, detailing new instances showing how President Donald Trump ignored the warnings of his advisers about the lethal...
The promise of COVID-19 antibody testing
On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading public health expert and adviser to President Trump, announced on CNN that “within a week or so, we are going to have a relatively large number of tests” to determine if recovered COVID-19 patients, including those who never...
‘We’re Doing Something That Is Pretty Unique’: Don Cheadle on ‘Black Monday,’ ‘House Of Lies’
Don Cheadle is one of the biggest names in Hollywood and he’s made Showtime his television home since 2012. The Academy Award nominee played Marty Kaan on “House Of Lies ” for five seasons alongside Kristen Bell, Ben Schwarz, and Josh Lawson and now is...
New York Has Lost Another 783 Lives To Coronavirus, Cuomo Says
New York is flattening the curve, but the state still lost 783 lives over the last 24 hours, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his daily news briefing on Saturday. That marks the fifth straight day of more than 700 deaths per day. “These are just...
Queen Elizabeth: ‘Easter Isn’t Cancelled’, Take ‘New Hope’ from ‘Risen Christ’
Queen Elizabeth II has delivered what is believed to be the first-ever Easter message of her 68-year reign, offering a message of hope to people confined to their homes throughout the holiday by the coronavirus pandemic. The 93-year-old monarch — who also serves as Supreme...
Behind closed doors, Trump’s coronavirus task force boosts industry and sows confusion
WILMINGTON, Del. — The coronavirus presented DuPont, the chemical giant based here, with a golden business opportunity. In January, the company convened a crisis team to figure out how to ramp up global production of personal protective equipment, including suits made out of its patented...
Now is not the time to play the partisan blame game over coronavirus
In a bid to make political hay out of the coronavirus pandemic, congressional Democrats want to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the federal government’s response. Although Rep. Adam Schiff insists the idea is “not a political exercise to cast blame,” it’s impossible to imagine...
Huawei’s Canada Mask Donations Cause Bipartisan Concern in Washington
hinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has quietly donated shipments of much-needed coronavirus protective masks and other medical equipment to Canada amid the global pandemic. While their generosity has been accepted and appreciated by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. lawmakers from both parties...
Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Statewide death toll increases as 81 more die from COVID-19
State health officials on Saturday reported an additional 1,293 known cases of COVID-19 in Illinois and 81 more deaths. That brings the statewide totals in Illinois to 19,180 known cases and 677 deaths, according to state figures. Gov. J.B Pritzker also announced the creation of...
We’re in the ‘hair color’ phase of panic buying, CEO says
First went the hand sanitizer, disinfectants and toilet paper. Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off shelves. In recent weeks, Americans’ shopping patterns are serving as a reflection of how the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve and affect daily lives. “You can definitely...
Trump spends Easter weekend pondering the ‘biggest decision’ of his presidency
President Donald Trump will watch Easter come and go this weekend without the nation “raring to go” as a new debate buds over whether May 1 is now the target date of revival. Instead of joining packed pews at his usual 11 a.m. ET service...
Nearly 2,000 Dead as Coronavirus Ravages Nursing Homes in N.Y. Region
At Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Brooklyn, workers said they had to convert a room into a makeshift morgue after more than 15 residents died of the coronavirus, and funeral homes could not handle all the bodies. At Elizabeth Nursing and Rehabilitation...
Trump Administration Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases
The Trump administration announced Friday afternoon that employers outside of the health care industry generally won’t be required to record coronavirus cases among their workers, a decision that left some workplace safety advocates incredulous. COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, is classified as a...
United States surpasses Italy as it becomes country with most coronavirus-related deaths in the world
The United States has reached a grim milestone in the fight against coronavirus, passing Italy to become the country with the most deaths in the world. A tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Saturday that 18,860 people have now died in the U.S. since the...
Trump’s lost week to prepare for coronavirus
March 6, there was no escaping the fact that the spread of the novel coronavirus would soon upend American life. There were confirmed cases in two dozen states, including Washington, where a state of emergency had been declared after at least 10 people died in...
US now has more COVID-19 deaths than any other country
The United States has passed Italy to become the country with the most coronavirus deaths. However, as a proportion of the total population in the U.S., virus deaths remain at about one-sixth of those in hard-hit Italy or Spain. More than 18,860 people in the...
New York City public schools to remain closed for rest of school year: mayor
(Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Saturday public schools will remain closed for the rest of the school year as the city battles the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. “Having to tell you that we cannot bring our schools back...
A fight over data infiltrates Trumpworld’s response to coronavirus
A new fault line is emerging in the nation’s polarized response to the coronavirus pandemic: The modeling used to predict its death count and spread. Early on, bleak forecasts spurred support for extreme social-distancing measures, shutting down whole swaths of the American economy. But in...
Inside America’s two-decade failure to prepare for coronavirus
The nation’s health secretary was warned about a possible pandemic — and, he admits now, he didn’t take that first warning seriously enough. But he studied with experts at the Centers of Disease Control. He read papers on virology. He took his concerns to the...
Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Hundreds Of U.S. Clinical Trials To A Halt
Rene Roach fired off a quick email in late March for an update on a colorectal cancer clinical trial for which she hoped to qualify. Worried about the coronavirus, she asked, almost as an afterthought, whether the study had been put on hold because of...
New York records 783 new coronavirus deaths, bringing total to 8,627
Another 783 people across New York died from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday, as the state’s “horrific” death tally climbed to 8,627. The total was up from 777 the day before, but short of the record 799 reported...
These sneaky golfers have got some balls during coronavirus lockdown
New York City golfers have balls — and they are going to great lengths to use them. While municipal golf courses are closed due to the coronavirus crisis, duffers are simply strolling onto the links — or cutting through chain-link fences — to golf for...
Coronavirus: US death toll passes 2,000 in a single day
The US has become the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day. Figures from Johns Hopkins University show 2,108 people died in the past 24 hours while there are now more than half a million confirmed...
