Tag: World Health Organization

World Health Organization partners with Google to stop spread of coronavirus misinformation

Madison Dibble · February 3, 2020 1:42 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.

Coronavirus whistleblower punished for ‘spreading rumors’ now infected with disease

Spencer Neale · February 1, 2020 7:08 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.

Top US infectious disease doctor has ‘no doubt’ coronavirus can spread before symptoms

Zach Halaschak · January 31, 2020 7:28 pm

American Airlines' planes are parked at a gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011.

Three airlines suspend flights to mainland China over coronavirus

Caitlin Yilek · January 31, 2020 5:41 pm

A woman wearing a protective mask prays during a Mass at Manila's Chinatown, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.

‘Our names will live in infamy’: Mayor of Wuhan offers to resign over virus response

Zach Halaschak · January 31, 2020 4:54 pm

Tom Cotton urges all Americans in China to ‘get out—now’ amid coronavirus outbreak

Tim Pearce · January 30, 2020 9:21 pm

Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is interviewed by reporters following final votes for the week.

Tom Cotton says coronavirus may have originated in Wuhan ‘super laboratory’

Spencer Neale · January 30, 2020 8:54 pm

World Health Organization declares coronavirus a global public health emergency

Cassidy Morrison · January 30, 2020 7:45 pm

The Costa Smeralda cruise ship is docked in the Civitavecchia port near Rome, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Italian health authorities are keeping some 7,000 people aboard after a passenger from Macao came down with flu-like symptoms, amid the global scare about a new virus. Passengers are being kept on board pending check to determine the type of virus.

UPDATED: Thousands quarantined on cruise ship over possible coronavirus case

Zach Halaschak · January 30, 2020 4:08 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.

Russia closes land border with China in ramping up coronavirus precautions

Cassidy Morrison · January 30, 2020 2:38 pm

A woman wearing a protective mask prays during a Mass at Manila's Chinatown, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.

‘Outsiders forbidden’: Coronavirus kills 38 in biggest single-day jump since outbreak

Spencer Neale · January 30, 2020 10:43 am

Workers in protective overalls walk past the Hankou railway station on the eve of its resuming outbound traffic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Just after midnight Wednesday, the city's 11 million residents will be permitted to leave without special authorization as long as a mandatory smartphone application shows they are healthy and have not been in recent contact with anyone confirmed to have the virus.

‘Get it right’: Pompeo mulls China travel ban over coronavirus outbreak

Joel Gehrke · January 29, 2020 9:15 pm