New York City’s efforts are continuing to find places to build medical facilities in order to ease the burden on hospitals caused by coronavirus. The city is set to lease thousands of hotel rooms, and in some
Macy’s said on Monday that it will stop paying tens of thousands of employees who were put of work when the chain closed its stores in response to collapsing sales due to the coronavirus pandemic. The majority
President Donald Trump and members of his administration have discussed whether to impose a nationwide stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but added that option is “pretty unlikely” for now. Trump made the comments
President Trump officially reversed his call to reopen businesses by Easter, saying he will extend the nation’s coronavirus social distancing guidelines to April 30. At his daily briefing at the White House, Trump said: “the modeling estimates
On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he anticipates the coronavirus could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans while infecting “millions” of others. However Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy
The U.S. has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than any country in the world, surpassing China, where the pandemic began. According to a running tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. had 82,404 confirmed cases
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake rattled West Texas on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake epicenter was about 27 miles west of Mentone, Texas, and was located 3 miles below the surface. Residents of El
Health officials in New Jersey presume all 94 residents at a nursing home have coronavirus, as the United States’ death toll surpassed 800 on Wednesday. All residents at St. Joseph’s Senior Home in Woodbridge, N.J. have not
Senate leaders and the White House reached an agreement on Wednesday on a massive $2 trillion stimulus package hoping to help businesses and workers negatively affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The agreement followed five days of
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved investigating treatment options for the outbreak by using plasma collected from recovered COVID-19 patients. Doctors in China have already tried these specific COVID-19 treatments using what the history books
