Tag: Health

A member of the Rhode Island National Guard Military Police directs motorists with New York license plates at a checkpoint on I-95 over the border with Connecticut where New Yorkers must pull over and provide contact information and are told to self-quarantine for two weeks, Saturday, March 28, 2020, in Hope Valley, R.I. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo on Saturday ordered anyone visiting the state to self-quarantine for 14 days and restricted residents to stay at home and nonessential retail businesses to close Monday until April 13 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Rhode Island National Guard going door-to-door to find New Yorkers fleeing coronavirus

John Gage · March 29, 2020 3:57 pm

In this March 2, 2020 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during a news conference in Ewing, N.J. On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Murphy, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, and Acting Governor Sheila Oliver announced the first presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in New Jersey.

New Jersey governor says tri-state quarantine is unnecessary due to ‘aggressive’ steps already taken

John Gage · March 29, 2020 3:03 pm

Louisiana governor predicts New Orleans will use ventilator supply by end of week

Madison Dibble · March 29, 2020 2:22 pm

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stands during a news conference on climate change at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019.

‘As the president fiddles, people are dying’: Pelosi calls Trump coronavirus response ‘deadly’

John Gage · March 29, 2020 2:13 pm

Head of Massachusetts Department of Public Health diagnosed with coronavirus

Zach Halaschak · March 28, 2020 1:12 am

'Don't be a cutie pie': Trump rips White House reporter for question on ventilators

Anthony Leonardi · March 28, 2020 12:16 am

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky.

'START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!': Trump demands top automakers help with coronavirus effort

Spencer Neale · March 27, 2020 1:09 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Trump says there is ‘possibility’ country will reopen in ‘quadrants’

John Gage · March 27, 2020 2:52 am

Fauci: Trump ‘aspirational’ Easter projection was ‘to give people some hope’

John Gage · March 27, 2020 2:26 am

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New York governor says quarantining everyone ‘not the best public health strategy’

John Gage · March 27, 2020 1:06 am

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.

‘We are now on crisis footing’: Healthcare providers weigh do-not-resuscitate protocols for coronavirus patients

Spencer Neale · March 26, 2020 9:38 pm

Scientist says US can and should randomly test for coronavirus to get better idea of mortality rate

Andrew Mark Miller · March 26, 2020 8:14 pm