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...
APRIL 9, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, participates in the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Brady Briefing room at the White House on March 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Senior White House adviser Anthony Fauci said Thursday the death toll from the coronavirus could be...
APRIL 9, 2020
A Boy Scout from Maple Ridge, British Columbia is getting world-wide attention for using his 3D printer to create "ear gears" for surgical masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Heather Roney says her 12-year-old son, Quinn Callander, has created several hundred of them from home so far and donated them to health-care workers around the world.
The device, which goes behind the head and is...
APRIL 9, 2020
Since the first genome of the coronavirus was sequenced in January, researchers around the world have sequenced over 3,000 more, some of which are genetically identical while others carry distinctive mutations. - National Institutes of Health/EPA, via Shutterstock
New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the...
APRIL 9, 2020
The U.S. economy continues to shed jobs at a jaw-dropping pace and there’s little sign the payroll losses will ease significantly anytime soon amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
About 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment benefit claims for the first time last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, reflecting another surge in layoffs and an economy that...
APRIL 8, 2020
At near-daily coronavirus press briefings, President Trump shares information about his administration’s pandemic response and criticizes reporters for their questions about it. - Jabin Botsford/WashPost
President Trump has lambasted governors who he views as insufficiently appreciative. He has denigrated — and even dismissed — inspectors general who dared to criticize him or his administration. And he has excoriated...
