(Headline USA) U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the first drug to treat COVID-19: remdesivir, an antiviral medicine given to hospitalized patients through an IV.
The drug, which California-based Gilead Sciences Inc. is calling Veklury, cut the time to recovery by five days---from 15 days to 10 on average---in a large...
(Headline USA) Just in time for Election Day, Michigan's Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer claimed Wednesday that her state has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than ever.
She noted a sharp increase since the state Supreme Court rebuffed her sweeping lockdown orders earlier this month, declaring the authoritarian measures unconstitutional.
The...
(Headline USA) California won't allow any distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the nation’s most populous state until it is reviewed by the state’s own panel of experts, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
Vaccinations for the pandemic “will move at the speed of trust,” said Newsom, a Democrat, and the state...
(Headline USA) Twitter censored a post Sunday from an adviser to President Donald Trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Scott Atlas, who joined the White House in August as a science adviser, had tweeted "Masks work? NO," and said widespread use...
(Headline USA) After months of enduring attacks from left-wing critics who claimed he had misled the public with an overly rosy picture of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump put his money where his mouth is.
Trump has advocated vociferously for schools to reopen, citing statistics that show little risk of...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed Republicans and the New York Post for the controversy surrounding his deadly policy of forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients.
In his new memoir, American Crisis, Cuomo acknowledged the impact the coronavirus outbreak has had on his state’s nursing homes, but he denied...
More than 20 nursing-home residents in Greeley, Colorado, gathered outside the facility this week to protest the state’s coronavirus restrictions, arguing that they would rather risk catching the virus than be separated from their loved ones.
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(Headline USA) To hear Democrats tell it, a Supreme Court with President Donald Trump's nominee Amy Coney Barrett could quickly get rid of the law that gives more than 20 million Americans health insurance coverage.
But that's not the inevitable outcome of a challenge the court will hear Nov. 10, just...
A top official at the World Health Organization urged world leaders to stop “using lockdowns” as the “primary control method” when fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Studies have shown that the lockdowns many countries adopted to stop the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in hundreds of thousands of job losses, plunging...
(Headline USA) Citizens and leaders from the conservative wing of the Texas Republican Party on Saturday continued their backlash against Gov. Greg Abbott's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
State party chairman Allen West, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and some GOP lawmakers were among an estimated 200 people gathered outside...
Thousands of epidemiologists, doctors and health experts published a letter this week calling for a return to normalcy for everyone besides those severely at risk for the coronavirus.
COVID-19 is proven to only seriously affect the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, said the letter, which was signed by more...
Several GOP representatives who are also doctors pushed back on criticism of Operation Warp Speed (OPS), a multi-agency wide effort to develop and deliver a coronavirus vaccine, and urged Americans to trust the process.
OPS is a public--private partnership that relies on federal research dollars to supplement and accelerate private...