COVID-19 vaccines raise hopes for eventual end to pandemic, but cruel months lie ahead. US leaders and scientific advisers urgently called on Americans to wear masks immediately and threatened even… Read more »
California, Florida report record numbers of daily COVID-19 deaths; CDC says rates likely 10 times higher than reported. The US came just shy of breaking its single-day record for new… Read more »
COVID-19 cases surge in US, elsewhere, with no end in sight; mask wearing, school openings still contentious. Divided Americans clashed anew over mask mandates and the reopening of schools on… Read more »
Fierce US surge adds over one million new coronavirus cases the past four weeks, ending months of declining national death totals. Since the first US case of the new coronavirus… Read more »
WHO warns coronavirus pandemic accelerating in 81 countries, especially the Americas; California orders residents to wear masks outside. The world has entered a “new and dangerous phase” of the coronavirus… Read more »
Fears of second surge of SARS-CoV-2 follow big spike in hospitalizations. States are rolling back lockdowns, but the coronavirus isn’t done with the US. Not by a long shot, says… Read more »
White House picks five COVID-19 vaccine candidates for Warp Speed initiative. The Trump administration has chosen five companies as the most likely contenders to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus, senior officials… Read more »
US coronavirus deaths top 100,000 as country reopens; Trump cuts ties with WHO. President Donald Trump on Thursday offered his first expression of sympathy in observance of the milestone of… Read more »
CDC issues detailed reopening guidance after initial rejection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gently released more detailed guidance for schools, businesses, transit systems and other industries hoping to… Read more »
Quarrel flares up between White House and the CDC over reopening guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly found its suggestions for fighting the coronavirus outbreak taking… Read more »
