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...
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...
MESS: STIMULUS STUMBLES OUT THE GATE
The national unemployment rate has risen faster than it has in decades, the government announced Friday, as the Trump administration struggled to move forward with new policies to reduce the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. One week ago, Congress authorized bigger unemployment benefits, $1,200...
Top administration officials said last year threat of pandemic kept them up at night
Washington (CNN)Two top administration officials last year listed the threat of a pandemic as an issue that greatly worried them, undercutting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the coronavirus pandemic was an unforeseen problem. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Tim Morrison, then...
Leonardo DiCaprio helps launch $12M coronavirus relief food fund
Leonardo DiCaprio will help launch America’s Food Fund, which has already raised $12 million to help communities impacted by the novel coronavirus. The organization said Thursday that the funds will be aimed to help low-income families, the elderly, individuals facing job disruptions and children who...
Coronavirus: US set to recommend wearing of masks
The White House is expected soon to advise Americans living in coronavirus hotspots to wear cloth masks or scarves in public to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. President Donald Trump said “I don’t think it will be mandatory – if people want to...
New York nonprofit teams with high-end restaurant to help feed health care workers, others
A nonprofit organization is using the kitchen of a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City to help feed needy residents and health care workers during the ongoing lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Matt Jozwiak, 32, the founder of ReThink, has converted the kitchen of...
Detroit bus driver dies of coronavirus after posting video to take virus seriously
A Detroit Department of Transportation bus driver died less than two weeks after he made a Facebook video encouraging people to take the new coronavirus seriously, a report said Thursday. MICHIGAN JUDGE JAILS DEFENDANTS FOR BEING LATE TO COURT AMID CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: REPORT In the...
Cruise ship with suspected patients on board allowed to dock in Florida
A cruise ship which has been floating at sea carrying passengers with suspected coronavirus after it was turned away from South American ports has finally been given permission to dock in Florida. The Zaandam and sister ship the Rotterdam, which was sent to help it,...
U.S. Unemployment Claims Hit Another Record High
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she’s creating a new House committee to oversee the coronavirus response that will have subpoena power to seek information from the Trump administration. “It would have subpoena power that’s for sure. It’s no use having a committee unless you...
The Coronavirus Doesn’t Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases
The new coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say that in the response to the pandemic, they can already see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias. In one analysis, it appears doctors may be...
Many Americans may have to wait months for coronavirus relief checks
The first Americans to get relief payments from the government under the coronavirus legislation signed into law last month won’t see the money until at least the week of April 13, according to new estimates from the Trump administration provided to House Democrats and outlined...
Exclusive: Military Fears Domestic Spying As Trump Orders Mexico Mission
U.S. armed forces struggles to keep up with demands for assistance in coronavirus response while also dealing with its own outbreak, President Donald Trump has ordered a significant increase in counter-narcotics and border control operations—an increase that will strain already limited resources but also push...
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...