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....
APRIL 10, 2020
Bill Gates- CNBC
Bill Gates thinks schools will be able to resume in the fall, he said in an interview with CNBC's Becky Quick.
"I do think school will be able to resume in the fall," Gates said. "But I don't think this school year there's going to be any significant attendance. You know, maybe in the summer, people...
APRIL 10, 2020
Former US President Barack Obama. - BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
Former president Barack Obama has a message for the nation’s mayors and local officials as they battle the coronavirus pandemic: “Speak the truth. Speak it clearly.”
Obama made the remarks during a virtual meeting for local officials from more than 300 cities around the world on Thursday. The former president...
APRIL 10, 2020
President Trump’s reelection campaign released a new ad on Friday accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of being soft on China, eliciting outrage from Democrats, who said the ad singled out a prominent American citizen because of his race.
The new ad features clips of Biden praising China and meeting with Chinese officials.
At one point the ad flashes...
APRIL 10, 2020
A rack of test tubes sit inside an ribonucleic acid extractor during coronavirus symptom detection tests. - Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg/Getty Images
As early indications of China's coronavirus outbreak emerged in late December, the Trump administration notified Congress it would still follow through with its plan to shutter a US Agency for International Development surveillance program tasked with detecting new,...
APRIL 9, 2020
FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to launch an appeal soon for more than $1 billion to fund operations against the COVID-19 pandemic through year-end, diplomats told Reuters on Thursday.
It comes against the...
