Tag: Health

FDA approves coronavirus test that gives results in less than an hour

Caitlin Yilek · March 22, 2020 1:59 pm

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The World Health Organization is the last entity in the world that should be telling people how to talk about COVID-19

Becket Adams · March 20, 2020 9:14 pm

Illinois governor orders residents to stay at home

Caitlin Yilek · March 20, 2020 5:00 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Washington.

Fauci: People likely will need to stay home ‘at least several’ more weeks to cut off coronavirus outbreak

John Gage · March 20, 2020 3:11 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, center, tours a Walmart Distribution Center Wednesday April 1, 2020, in Gordonsville, Va.

Walmart giving over $500 million in early bonuses to employees because of the coronavirus outbreak

John Gage · March 20, 2020 3:05 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom updates the state's response to the coronavirus, at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova Calif., Tuesday, March 17, 2020. At right is California Health and Human Services Agency Director Dr. Mark Ghaly.

California governor orders residents to ‘stay at home’ over coronavirus outbreak

John Gage · March 20, 2020 2:04 am

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.

20-year-old dies from coronavirus after doctors told him ‘no need to worry’

John Gage · March 20, 2020 1:20 am

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.

‘Additional public health risk’: California residents warned against flushing disinfecting wipes during coronavirus outbreak

John Gage · March 19, 2020 8:35 pm

A video of the spread and mutation of the Ebola out break in West Africa in 2014 plays on a laptop at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick, Md., Thursday, March 19, 2020, where scientists are working to help develop solutions to prevent, detect and treat the coronavirus.

Energy and Environment

Warmer and wetter weather may ‘significantly reduce’ spread of coronavirus

Tim Pearce · March 19, 2020 7:58 pm

Beltway Confidential

We need a more sustainable social distancing strategy

Philip Klein · March 19, 2020 3:17 pm

Secret recording captures top Republican delivering early warning about severe coronavirus consequences

Caitlin Yilek · March 19, 2020 3:03 pm

Entire Georgia Senate asked to quarantine after one member tests positive for coronavirus

Madison Dibble · March 19, 2020 2:05 pm