Tag: Health

A girl wears a face mask as she walks across a frozen canal during a snowfall in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.

‘We can’t stop’: Funeral worker says Wuhan cremating ‘at least 100’ bodies a day amid coronavirus outbreak

Spencer Neale · February 5, 2020 5:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trump declares war on Democratic dreams of destroying your healthcare

Tiana Lowe Doescher · February 5, 2020 3:22 am

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, delivers a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.

Democrats to bring insulin users to State of the Union to troll Trump

Kimberly Leonard · February 4, 2020 8:39 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

‘Avoiding us like we are the virus’: Fear of coronavirus plagues Chinese sex workers

Joel Gehrke · February 4, 2020 7:41 pm

In this Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 photo, a rhesus macaques monkey observes kayakers as they navigate along the Silver River in Silver Springs, Fla. Wildlife managers in Florida say they want to remove the roaming monkeys from the state in light of a new study published Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, that finds some of the animals are excreting a virus that can be dangerous to humans.

Deadly herpes-riddled feral monkeys swing through Florida

Zach Halaschak · February 4, 2020 7:23 pm

This handout photo taken and released by Malaysia's Ministry of Health shows health officials in protective suits at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, waiting for arrivals that were evacuated from China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

China witnesses deadliest day of coronavirus outbreak as infection rapidly spreads

Zach Halaschak · February 4, 2020 4:42 pm

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Healthcare tops voter concerns at Iowa caucuses

Kimberly Leonard · February 4, 2020 2:54 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.

American Airlines cuts flights to Hong Kong over coronavirus

Tim Pearce · February 4, 2020 1:58 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

Hong Kong confirms first death from coronavirus as medical workers strike

Kimberly Leonard · February 4, 2020 1:14 pm

HHS teams up with biotech company to create coronavirus treatment

Cassidy Morrison · February 4, 2020 9:46 am

‘We expect to see more’: CDC confirms second case of person-to-person coronavirus transmission in US

Zach Halaschak · February 3, 2020 10:21 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.

Vatican ships thousands of masks to China to help combat coronavirus spread

Tim Pearce · February 3, 2020 9:02 pm