WASHINGTON (AP) — As the White House looks for ways to restore normalcy in parts of the U.S., the government’s foremost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, offered his …
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Donald Trump again struggled to reassure a fearful nation on Thursday as it emerged the US now has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world. News that America had surpassed virus hotspots China and Italy with 82,404 cases of infection, according to a tracker run by Johns Hopkins University, broke as the …
Italian Deputy Health Minister Pierpaolo Sileri stated on Sunday that the country’s lockdown measures are “starting to work” and that the number of new coronavirus cases is likely to drop soon. “We are living in the peak of this epidemic,” Sileri told BBC’s Andrew Marr and noted the jump in the number of reported infections …
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea and Japan said, continuing a streak of weapons launches that suggests leader Kim Jong Un is trying to strengthen domestic support amid worries about a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff …
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — More than a fifth of Detroit’s police force is quarantined; two officers have died from coronavirus and at least 39 have tested positive, including the chief of police. For the 2,200-person department, that has meant officers working doubles and swapping between units to fill patrols. And everyone has their temperature …
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NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) – Doctors and nurses on the front lines of the U.S. coronavirus crisis pleaded on Friday for more protective gear and equipment to treat waves of patients expected to overwhelm hospitals as the sum of known U.S. infections climbed well past 100,000, with more than 1,600 dead. Physicians have called …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented $2.2 trillion economic rescue package into law Friday, after swift and near-unanimous action by Congress this week to support businesses, rush resources to overburdened health care providers and help struggling families during the deepening coronavirus epidemic. Acting with unity and resolve unseen since the 9/11 attacks, …
The push in the U.S. pandemic epicenter follows the president’s declaration that he ‘feels good’ about compounds with unproven efficacy, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. President Trump on March 20 played up the promise of a malaria drug to possibly treat coronavirus, saying, “What the hell do you have to lose?” (Reuters) New York is moving at …
The coronavirus pandemic could kill more than 81,000 people in the United States in the next four months and may not subside until June, according to a data analysis done by the University of Washington School of Medicine. The number of hospitalised patients is expected to peak nationally by the second week of April, though …
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the measures enacted Friday, the most drastic to date, were necessary as state cases surged again; NJ Gov. Phil Murphy said his state would “further tighten the screws” on social distancing Saturday Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that 100 percent of non-essential work forces are now required to stay home, …