The toll of virus-related closures, which for now are temporary, is immense, with at least 600,000 mostly low-wage workers furloughed last week despite President Trump signing a $2-trillion stimulus package that includes billions in loans to damaged industries.
The glimmer of potential good news came on the same day New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his state may already be experiencing a “flattening of the curve.” But experts cautioned against vesting too much confidence in any single model or data point.
“He gave me his point of view, and I fully understood that, and we just had a very friendly conversation,” Trump said at his daily press briefing.
A senior Navy political appointee was recorded criticizing a popular captain he dismissed.
Officials said Johnson was conscious and did not require ventilation but was in the intensive care unit in case he needed it later.
The move prompted an immediate a court challenge.
The president spent a portion of Sunday’s press briefing yet again promoting an unproven treatment for the novel coronavirus, repeatedly asking, “What do we have to lose?”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts only deaths in which the presence of the coronavirus is confirmed in a laboratory test.
The global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the oil industry in the U.S., which pumps more crude than any other country.
Around the world, grocery store employees — mostly getting low wages — are staffing the frontlines amid lockdowns.
These definitions will help you keep up with the latest on the global pandemic.
Open-or-close decisions appear to place constitutional religious rights in conflict with the demands of public health.
The global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the oil industry in the U.S., which pumps more crude than any other country.
Amid the pandemic, this 33-year-old physician is the final face many patients see.
President Donald Trump hailed numbers from New York showing a one-day decline in deaths while warning that New York and New Jersey have “really become a very hot zone.”
A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
The lack of strong direction from the Trump administration has left many life-and-death decisions in the hands of state and local officials, whose varied response is projected to produce a notable disparity in rate of infection and how many lives are spared or lost.
The finding raises new questions about transmission of the virus in animals. The 4-year-old tiger — and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill — are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee who wasn’t yet showing symptoms.
The prime minister’s Downing St. office said it was a “precautionary step” and Johnson remains in charge of the government.
xperts and health officials who are trying to plan a response to the coronavirus outbreak are missing a critical piece of information — the number of health care workers who have tested positive for the disease.
