Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci warned White House officials of the serious health risks posed by the massive Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this Saturday, NBC News reported on Friday. Dr. Deborah Birx, the COVID-19 response coordinator of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force, also raised concerns about the rally, two sources familiar with […]
Michael Flor, a Seattle resident, surprised doctors and family members when he recovered from a life-threatening coronavirus infection this spring. Then he got his own surprise ― a hospital bill for $ 1,122,501.04. Flor, 70, shared the 181-page document with The Seattle Times, which noted that he has insurance and Medicare coverage and so may only […]
The government is facing growing pressure to publish recommendations to protect black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people from Covid-19. The British Medical Association is asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities were “omitted” from a key report. In a letter to the health secretary, the head of the doctors’ union called for […]
A Maine manufacturer of COVID-19 testing swabs said it’s discarding the entire output created while President Donald Trump toured the plant without a mask, USA Today reported. A representative of Puritan Medical Products did not say explicitly that the action was due to Trump’s lack of any protective gear during his tour Friday — but […]
Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus “immediately.” But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the deadly virus for over a week […]
Public Health England has released its report looking at why people from ethnic minority backgrounds are “disproportionately” dying with coronavirus. It shows age remains the biggest risk factor. Being male is another. But if you strip out age and sex, people of Bangladeshi ethnicity have twice the risk of death than people of white British […]
COVID-19 cases first contracted by a pastor and his wife ended up spreading to 35 others who attended events at their rural Arkansas church that resulted in three deaths, a troubling report revealed Friday. An additional 26 cases in the community occurred among people who had contact with those who participated in the church events, according […]
A startling new projection presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency shows a possible COVID-19 toll uptick to 200,000 cases and 3,000 deaths daily by June 1. The shocking numbers come just as dozens of states begin to drop strict social distancing requirements and open businesses to workers and customers at President Donald Trump’s urging. A rate of […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters. The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing […]
(Reuters) ― More than 2,200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID-19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease, a Reuters review of data from 16 of the country’s 34 provinces showed. Three medical experts said the figures indicated the national death toll was likely to be much higher than the […]
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation. The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean leader. Reuters was unable to […]
In what could be a stunning reversal, leaders of the U.S. Navy are recommending that Capt. Brett Crozier be reinstated after he was ousted in early April for writing a letter about a coronavirus outbreak on board his ship, The New York Times reported Friday. Defense Secretary Mark Esper reportedly received the recommendation Friday. It […]
WASHINGTON — A new internal watchdog report finds that hospitals were unprepared for the coronavirus and are still scrambling to find equipment and deal with a shortage of tests — problems critics say could have been averted had President Donald Trump taken the pandemic seriously from the beginning. From a lack of enough protective gear to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment. A review of federal purchasing contracts […]
A parallel COVID-19 strategy run by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has sucked valuable time from health experts scrambling to respond to the surging pandemic and save lives, sources have told The Washington Post. Comments and requests from President Donald Trump’s son-in-law that task force members felt compelled to respond to — no matter how […]