APRIL 12, 2020
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, on Sunday unveiled a plan to "safely reopen" the United States, emphasizing that widespread testing availability and a drastic drop in confirmed COVID-19 cases must take precedent before the country takes such a step.
In a New York Times op-ed, Biden wrote that the U.S. must first acknowledge the...
APRIL 12, 2020
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, and President Trump have publicly disagreed on several issues. - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump publicly signaled his frustration on Sunday with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, after the doctor said more lives could have been saved from...
AprIL 12,2020
Men leaving an Islamic seminary linked to coronavirus cases in New Delhi last month. They were sent to a quarantine facility.
NEW DELHI — After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a spree of anti-Muslim attacks has broken out across...
APRIL 12, 2020
Pope Francis reads his “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) message in St. Peter's Basilica with no public participation due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease on Easter Sunday at the Vatican, April 12, 2020. - Vatican Media/Via Reuters
ROME, ITALY — It was a day of live-streamed Masses, of empty pews, of interrupted...
APRIL 12, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Friday. - Evan Vucci, AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump is eager to reopen the nation and claims to have "absolute authority" to do so, but experts say the decision on when Americans can ditch coronavirus distancing and return to normal will...
APRIL 12, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that calls to implement life-saving social distancing measures faced...
APRIL 12, 2020
The latest:
There are more than 530,000 coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
The U.S. death toll has surpassed 20,000 people, according to Hopkins.
Globally, the number of cases has surpassed 1.8 million with more than 110,000 deaths, Hopkins reports.
Antibody tests that would verify whether a person recently had...
APRIL 11, 2020
“Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion,” President Trump said last month. He has repeatedly said that no one could have seen the effects of the coronavirus coming. - Erin Schaff/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department...
APRIL 11, 2020
A coronavirus vaccine could be available to the public by September, according to a University of Oxford professor leading a team of scientists trying to develop one.
Professor Sarah Gilbert, a professor of vaccinology, said the most optimistic scenario for a working vaccine was in the autumn.
She said the timeframe is "just about possible if...
APRIL 10, 2020
A woman with rolls of toilet paper and a face mask walks in front of Pink's restaurant during the COVID-19 breakout in Los Angeles Sunday, April 5, 2020. (Mark Edward Harris via AP)
Bob Giaimo, founder of the Silver Diner restaurant chain, is hoping to receive emergency funding in the coming days through a federal loan program....
