President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended his “15 days to slow the spread” campaign by another two weeks, warning of a spike in deaths from the coronavirus that’s just ahead.
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The House vote came after lawmakers were forced to scramble back to the Capitol when a lone Republican bucked GOP leaders and threatened to force a roll call vote.
The worldwide death toll has surpassed 25,200 with more than 558,500 cases. In the U.S., 1,353 have died and 91,255 have been infected.
The Las Vegas Valley Chinese American community is now using the pipeline it established to help China fight the COVID-19 pandemic to aid hospitals in Southern Nevada.
President Donald Trump said his administration will use “expanded” testing capabilities to advise high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk communities whether to increase, maintain or relax their social distancing guidelines.
President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force is scheduled to conduct a briefing hours after Trump held a conference call with leaders of nonprofit organizations.
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President Donald Trump praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for telling residents to stay home and deal with the coronavirus.
He said infection rates are doubling every four days in some parts of the state and issued the dire prediction that 56% of California’s population could contract the virus over the next eight weeks.
President Donald Trump said the government should take an equity stake in companies that need bailouts because of the effects of coronavirus on the U.S. economy.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says he would like to see aggressive measures such as a 14-day national shutdown.
The company said that the decision was made “in an abundance of caution” to protect guests and employees amid the global outbreak of the new coronavirus.
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, a sight the Hollywood mogul’s multitude of accusers thought they would never see.
By reversing course and using the charged word “pandemic” that it had previously shied away from, the U.N. health agency appeared to want to shock lethargic countries into pulling out all the stops.