Novel coronavirus

WATCH: Pelosi calls new CDC guidelines ‘scary and dangerous’

By Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on coronavirus testing "scary and dangerous."…

Officials change COVID testing advice, bewildering experts

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people.

Decades later, Al Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

By Aaron Morrison, Associated Press

This week’s commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will focus on police violence, and its ever-expanding roll call of victims. But at the center will be the Rev. Al Sharpton, the protest's organizer.

New York City’s museums to reopen their doors

By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press

Many cultural institutions in New York City are gingerly reopening their doors. They're weighing the safety of visitors and staff with the need to educate, inspire and support the city's recovery.

New COVID-19 mandates on health care facilities get pushback

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it will require facilities to test staff regularly or face fines. It included a thinly veiled threat to cut off Medicare and Medicaid funds to facilities that fail to send in certain…

New virus cases decline in the U.S. and experts credit masks

By Carla K. Johnson, Adam Geller, Associated Press

The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks — even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day.

University of Alabama shuts down bars amid spike in COVID-19 cases

By Associated Press

Tuscaloosa is closing bars for the next two weeks after what University of Alabama officials call an unacceptable rise in coronavirus cases on campus.

FDA chief apologizes for overstating plasma effect on coronavirus

By Deb Reichmann, Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Responding to outcries from medical experts, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn is admitting he overstated the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.

Many Americans shoring up finances amid downturn, poll says

By Josh Boak, Emily Swanson, Associated Press

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 45% of Americans say they are setting aside more money than usual during the coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 is ‘a crisis within a crisis’ for homeless people

By Molly Bohannon, Katie Surma, Austin Fast, Nino Abdaladze, Megan Lupo, Jamie Fields, Sanjana Garg, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

Homeless people are among the most vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 pandemic, yet they're largely invisible victims. Very little is known about how they're faring.