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Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), speaks during a U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg via Getty Images The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Scotland could eliminate coronavirus by the end of the summer if the decline in new cases continues, according to a public health expert. There were no confirmed deaths from the virus on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Prof Devi Sridhar, of Edinburgh University, said the country would effectively be […]
The city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases, Home Secretary Priti Patel has confirmed. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, she said it was “correct” that the government was considering the move, reported in the Sunday Times. About 25% of Leicester’s 2,494 confirmed Covid-19 cases were […]
Lisa Rinna Says She Uses This Anti-Aging Oil to Treat Her Neck – NewBeauty Skip to content Lisa Rinna, 56-year-old actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star, shared her favorite oil for the days where your neck looks a little too saggy for comfort. In her latest Instagram story, she debuted Nurse Jamie’s Desert […]
As coronavirus cases spike mostly across the American South and West, the country will soon “be seeing more deaths,” White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Friday. Deaths caused by Covid-19 lag behind other data points such as hospitalizations, which lag behind confirmed infections as the disease can take weeks to fully develop in […]
The business leader brought in by the government to sort out shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care workers in England has told the BBC that “crisis management” was required during and immediately after the peak of coronavirus cases. Lord Paul Deighton said that supplies were now stable and had been secured […]
CAIRO (AP) — Millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a “huge” drop in humanitarian aid funding, the U.N. children’s agency warned Friday. The stark prediction comes in a new UNICEF report, “Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19.” It said […]
As the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting economic slowdown strain company budgets, employers are trying to calculate how much they will spend on healthcare next year. Soon, they will be picking health plans for 2021, and the pandemic will certainly go into that calculus. A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers attempts to forecast healthcare costs for next […]
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont told CNBC on Tuesday that the leaders of Arizona and Texas, two states grappling with growing Covid-19 outbreaks, should reinstitute more aggressive containment strategies. “I’d close down the bars,” Lamont, a Democrat, said on “Closing Bell.” Both Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have said that a larger share of […]
Miley Cyrus has spent the first half of 2020 embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle. The 27-year-old actor and singer tells Variety that she quit drinking to undergo vocal cord surgery last fall. She decided to stay sober after recovering from the procedure, too. “I’ve been sober sober for the past six months,” she said. “At the beginning, it was […]
The Transportation Security Administration worsened the coronavirus outbreak by failing to institute early safety measures despite pleas from its employees, a whistleblower at the agency said in a complaint revealed on Thursday. The federal watchdog that investigated the whistleblower’s claims now wants the Department of Homeland Security ― which oversees the TSA ― to investigate […]
Americans are losing confidence in federal guidance about the coronavirus, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. Just 37% of Americans say they’re either very or somewhat confident that the U.S. government’s statements about the coronavirus are reliable and accurate, while about half, 52%, say they’re either not very or not at all confident in what the […]
A Chinese epidemic control worker wears a protective suit and mask as he and volunteers direct people at a site where authorities were performing nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 on citizens who have had contact with the the Xinfadi Wholesale Market or someone who has, at an outdoor sports center June 15, 2020 in Beijing, […]