Inmates locked up in a complex that houses some of the federal prison system’s most medically vulnerable prisoners say decrepit conditions and failed social distancing policies have allowed COVID-19 to spread throughout the facility in an outbreak that has already claimed the lives of nine men. A new class action lawsuit filed on behalf of […]
As states across the country begin to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a lot of questions surrounding what daily life will look like, and how it could be different from anything we’ve experienced before. With an emphasis placed on health precautions, all types of businesses have been tasked with implementing new guidelines in order […]
Fewer deaths related to coronavirus were registered in the UK in the week to 15 May than in any week since the beginning of April. Between 11 and 15 May, there were 4,210 death registrations mentioning Covid-19, across the UK. Down from 4,426 the previous week, it is the lowest weekly figure since the 3,801 […]
President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed former President Barack Obama for his administration’s shortcomings in dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. “The last administration left us nothing,” Trump said last month. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that Trump’s own budget documents show the opposite ― exposing what it called “a lie of colossal Trumpian proportions.” […]
A drug treatment that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS. Remdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that was originally developed to fight Ebola. UK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected hospital patients. For the time being and due to limited […]
Dominic Cummings has faced a media grilling over his decision during lockdown to drive his family 260 miles to his parent’s property in Durham. While he was defending his actions, it emerged the family also took a 30-minute car trip to the town of Barnard Castle at the end of their 14-day quarantine for coronavirus […]
As lockdowns are eased all over the world, what are the risks of getting infected as people come into closer contact with each other? It’s a question that scientists have been exploring in a variety of settings including restaurants and offices. Frustratingly, the evidence for how the virus can be transmitted is often slim and […]
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier on Monday called out President Donald Trump’s plan to pack the upcoming Republican National Convention with up to 50,000 people, during the coronavirus pandemic, as “not smart.” Trump had earlier in the day threatened to move the convention in August from Charlotte, North Carolina, if the state’s Democratic governor […]
Fox News commentator Brit Hume on Monday tried to face-mask shame Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. He indicated that Biden doesn’t look good wearing one ― as if that’s more important than any safety considerations about spreading a virus that has killed nearly 100,000 Americans. “This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear […]
A group of customers in a grocery store went ballistic as a woman shopped without a face mask, yelling at her until she walked off with her cart full of groceries. The heated confrontation was captured on a video posted Saturday to Facebook on Saturday and quickly went viral on Twitter. “What happens in Staten […]
GENEVA ― Countries where coronavirus infections are declining could still face an “immediate second peak” if they let up too soon on measures to halt the outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The world is still in the middle of the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak, WHO emergencies head Dr Mike Ryan […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Trials in several countries are being “temporarily” suspended as a precaution, the agency said on Monday. It comes after a recent medical study […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden made his first public appearance in more than two months on Monday, breaking from his online-only campaign as social distancing measures begin to ease. Sporting a protective face mask with his wife, Jill Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee commemorated Memorial Day by visiting Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park. “Never […]
The federal Department of Veterans Affairs has been giving 1,300 veterans hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus since late March — even though the drug has not been proven to be effective against the illness and may even trigger fatal heart problems. In a study of 100,000 patients with COVID-19 published Friday in the medical journal […]
As I flew out of Texas in February, I never imagined the tragedy and upheaval that would take place before I was able to return eight weeks later. I travel monthly from Seattle to Texas to help provide abortion care. But at the end of March — as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up —Republican […]