• WATCH: Texas governor gives coronavirus update

    WATCH: Texas governor gives coronavirus update

    Apr 27, 2020 07:09 PM EDT

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a news conference to give an update on the state’s plans to ease stay-at-home restrictions and reopen some businesses.

  • WATCH: WHO holds news conference on novel coronavirus

    WATCH: WHO holds news conference on novel coronavirus

    Apr 27, 2020 04:56 PM EDT

    ... Ghebreyesus told a Geneva news conference. "WHO continues to be concerned about the increasing trends in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and some Asian countries," he added. Tedros called for worldwide solidarity to tackle the spread of the new coronavirus. "We can only defeat this virus through unity," he said.

  • WATCH: Florida governor gives coronavirus update

    WATCH: Florida governor gives coronavirus update

    Apr 27, 2020 03:25 PM EDT

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave an update on the novel coronavirus pandemic as the state considers easing its stay-at-home order. Watch the governor's remarks in the video player above.

  • WATCH: IMF director discusses economic effects of coronavirus

    WATCH: IMF director discusses economic effects of coronavirus

    Apr 27, 2020 02:39 PM EDT

    The International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, talked about the novel coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact. Watch the discussion in the video player above.

  • WATCH: NYC mayor says clinics set to start 'self-swab' coronavirus tests

    WATCH: NYC mayor says clinics set to start 'self-swab' coronavirus tests

    Apr 27, 2020 01:29 PM EDT

    New York City-run health clinics will soon take a new tack on coronavirus testing, using a procedure that lets people collect samples themselves at a health care worker's direction, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. Watch the mayor’s remarks in the video player above. He said the ...

  • How the coronavirus is delaying life-altering surgeries

    How the coronavirus is delaying life-altering surgeries

    Apr 26, 2020 09:09 PM EDT

    ... Rachael Wilson: My doctors are basically working really hard, but they can't do the surgeries right now because the hospitals are so full of coronavirus patients that they're pretty much saying, you know, you just have to wait. And in the meantime, we're searching for someone that ...

  • AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s baseless theories on coronavirus

    AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s baseless theories on coronavirus

    Apr 25, 2020 08:08 PM EDT

    The drug has long been used to treat malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. A few, very small preliminary studies suggested it might help prevent the coronavirus from entering cells and possibly help patients clear the virus sooner. Wilkie, as VA secretary, leads the nation’s largest health system. His agency ...

  • Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

    Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

    Apr 25, 2020 12:51 PM EDT

    Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America’s largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world's pandemic hot spots.

  • Shields and Brooks on Trump’s briefings, coronavirus aid

    Shields and Brooks on Trump’s briefings, coronavirus aid

    Apr 24, 2020 10:25 PM EDT

    Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including President Trump’s controversial medical commentary, the respective roles of federal and state governments in the crisis, American public opinion on pandemic restrictions, congressional pandemic relief and how they’re handling social distancing.

  • 'Do not call me a hero.' Listen to an ICU nurse's plea for fighting the coronavirus

    'Do not call me a hero.' Listen to an ICU nurse's plea for fighting the coronavirus

    Apr 24, 2020 09:45 PM EDT

    ... when your other patient’s heart rate just reached 0 next door? Even when I leave the hospital, I can't escape this plague. The Coronavirus follows me home literally and metaphorically. It's on the soles of my shoes, on my clothes as I strip bare at the door ...