• WATCH: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gives coronavirus update

    WATCH: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gives coronavirus update

    Jul 20, 2020 10:05 PM EDT

    New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a news conference to give an update on the city's efforts to fight the novel coronavirus. Watch the mayor's remarks in the player above. De Blasio tweeted Saturday about a news report describing block-party like crowds in Queens. He ...

  • WATCH: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives coronavirus update

    WATCH: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives coronavirus update

    Jul 20, 2020 03:51 PM EDT

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference to provide an update on how the state is responding to the coronavirus pandemic as cases continue to rise. Watch the news conference in the video player above. Since Florida began reopening businesses and recreational spaces in May, the state has ...

  • UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test

    UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test

    Jul 20, 2020 02:34 PM EDT

    ... is designed to reduce disease and transmission. It uses a harmless virus — a chimpanzee cold virus, engineered so it can’t spread — to carry the coronavirus’ spike protein into the body, which should trigger an immune system response. Hill said Oxford has partnered with drugmaker AstraZeneca to produce their vaccine ...

  • How the coronavirus spread through one immigration facility

    How the coronavirus spread through one immigration facility

    Jul 19, 2020 10:56 PM EDT

    Gregory Arnold walked into the warden’s office April 1 as the novel coronavirus ripped through one of the largest immigration detention centers in the United States. Waiting with about 40 guards to begin his shift, he heard a captain say face masks were prohibited.

  • WATCH: Full interview with Fauci on reopening schools, coronavirus vaccine and White House tension

    WATCH: Full interview with Fauci on reopening schools, coronavirus vaccine and White House tension

    Jul 17, 2020 10:32 PM EDT

    ... were feeding Americans false hope that a vaccine could be ready in months, Fauci said that the response to developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus has moved incredibly fast.Efforts to develop a vaccine were underway days after researchers received its genetic sequence, Fauci said. And in more than ...

  • Congressional Democrats and Republicans debate coronavirus liability policy

    Congressional Democrats and Republicans debate coronavirus liability policy

    Jul 17, 2020 09:38 PM EDT

    ... and that is absolutely essential for us to have to protect our workers, at all times, but an even stronger one at the time of coronavirus," Pelosi said on Thursday. The nation's trial lawyers have traditionally held great influence with congressional Democrats and while they have absorbed some defeats ...

  • Remote region of Brazil's Amazon experiences first deaths by coronavirus

    Remote region of Brazil's Amazon experiences first deaths by coronavirus

    Jul 17, 2020 07:12 PM EDT

    ... June the situation has improved. But in the Javari Valley, 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) from Manaus, the pandemic remains at early stages. The first coronavirus cases in the Javari region came five weeks ago. Indigenous leaders from various ethnicities near the Itui river called on the federal government to ...

  • Arkansas to require face masks to combat coronavirus surge

    Arkansas to require face masks to combat coronavirus surge

    Jul 16, 2020 07:00 PM EDT

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson issued an order Thursday requiring people to wear face masks in public throughout the state, which has had a surge in coronavirus cases over the past several weeks. The Republican governor had resisted a statewide mask mandate and opposed issuing a stay ...

  • Brazil nears 2 million coronavirus cases, with 75,000 dead

    Brazil nears 2 million coronavirus cases, with 75,000 dead

    Jul 16, 2020 06:48 PM EDT

    A thousand deaths a day. Since late May, three months after Brazil’s first reported case of the coronavirus, it has recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths on average in a gruesome plateau that has yet to tilt downward.

  • How planning and early action helped San Francisco's Chinatown control coronavirus

    How planning and early action helped San Francisco's Chinatown control coronavirus

    Jul 15, 2020 10:40 PM EDT

    ... they can get treated, and it can protect others, too. Alyson Stamos: All 32 residents in Zhu's building who participated tested negative for the coronavirus. And testing continues. Getting ahead of any infection will be essential for the eventual reopening of the neighborhood. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm ...