Tag: Health

According to those familiar with the matter, the Trump administration is blacklisting certain words from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2019 budget. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

CDC updates guidance to note coronavirus ‘does not spread easily’ from contaminated surfaces

Emma Colton · May 20, 2020 5:06 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

Study forecasts US coronavirus deaths tripling by end of 2020

Anthony Leonardi · May 19, 2020 7:54 pm

Elderly ICE detainee seeking release to avoid coronavirus dies by suicide: Lawyer

Anna Giaritelli · May 19, 2020 3:27 pm

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis gestures as he debates.

On reopening decisions, look at data, not at models

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2020 12:00 am

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Beltway Confidential

Wear the face mask. It’s a service to others

Kaylee McGhee White · May 14, 2020 5:56 pm

‘She survived’: 113-year-old woman, thought to be Spain’s oldest, beats coronavirus

Zach Halaschak · May 13, 2020 1:46 am

Pritzker says expected peak in COVID-19 cases pushed to mid-June

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2020 4:00 pm

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Beltway Confidential

We’re starting to see downward trend in coronavirus cases

Philip Klein · May 12, 2020 1:10 pm

Gavin Newsom needs to set more realistic standards for California counties to reopen

Jim Desmond · May 11, 2020 4:09 am

‘We need a plan’: Infectious disease specialist says ‘60% to 70% of Americans’ will contract coronavirus

Madison Dibble · May 10, 2020 7:01 pm

Un trabajador mÃ©dico escribe en un tubo tras recoger una muestra de un paciente en un hotel utilizado para colocar a personas en cuarentena en Wuhan, en la provincia central de Hubei, China, el martes 4 de febrero de 2020.

Stress from virus response will destroy 7 times more years of life than lockdowns save: Study

Andrew Mark Miller · May 5, 2020 11:48 pm

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks during a media conference after a meeting of the EU3 and Iran at EEAS headquarters in Brussels on Thursday Jan. 11, 2018. European Union foreign ministers held talks with their Iranian counterpart in Brussels on Thursday amid doubts over the future of an international agreement curbing the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.

‘I was immune’: Lead epidemiologist at Imperial College London resigns after reportedly breaking social distancing mandate to visit lover

Dominick Mastrangelo · May 5, 2020 7:57 pm