While COVID-19 has devastated parts of the U.S., including hot spots like New York, New Jersey and Louisiana, many counties in Western states have few cases and no deaths. Some officials and residents in those areas feel that pandemic restrictions were overly cautious. But health experts fear that limited local hospital capacity means a high...
We again share stories of just a few of the extraordinary Americans who have lost their lives in this devastating novel coronavirus pandemic. Judy Woodruff reports. ... Judy Woodruff: As the week nears an end, we again want to take a few minutes tonight to share the stories of just some ...
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser held a news conference May 8 on the area’s response to the novel coronavirus. Watch the mayor's remarks in the player above. The coronavirus crisis has sent the U.S. unemployment rate surging to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country ...
An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has the coronavirus, marking the second person in the White House complex known to test positive this week.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said wet markets like those in Wuhan widely linked to the emergence of the new coronavirus were often overcrowded, and good hygiene and food safety standards were not being met. In a press briefing on Friday, WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter ...
As countries around the world, including the United States, are grappling with how to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, what are scientists learning about the virus?
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators approved the first saliva-based coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a news briefing on Friday, during which she addressed the latest unemployment surge, as well as news that an aide to ...
A new study finds no evidence of benefit from a malaria drug widely promoted as a treatment for coronavirus infection. Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers ...
... by the Army Corps of Engineers that turned out not to be needed may be kept on standby in case of a resurgence of the coronavirus later in the year. Esper has not spoken in detail about preparations the Pentagon may be making to remain ready and supplied for follow ...
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has removed jail as a punishment for violating his coronavirus restrictions following outcry by conservatives over a Dallas salon owner who was jailed for refusing to keep her business closed.
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