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Officials Say Testing was Delayed Due to CDC Labs Being Contaminated and Needs to be Tripled Before the US Can Reopen
It has been widely talked about for several weeks. The first test kits for COVID-19 that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) laboratories in Atlanta developed were ineffective. These tests were sent to almost all of the 100 state and local public...
Number of COVID-19 Cases Passes 2 Million Globally as Many Wonder How Governments are Able to Find Money to Provide Assistance
As of today, the number of COVID-19 cases has surpassed more than 2 million people worldwide. The number of deaths is over 130,000. The numbers doubled in about 13 days and are growing continually. Many public health officials fear that the numbers are actually much...
Trump Disregards Advice to Tighten Clean Air Rules as the Number of Deaths in Britain Potentially 10% Higher Than Official Number
There has been an emerging link between air pollution and deaths from COVID-19. Harvard researchers recently released a study that looked at the link between long-term air pollution exposure and deaths as the result of the virus. They found that if a person lives for...
National Trade Adviser Warns Prolonged Shutdown Could Pose a More Dire Long-Term Health Threat as Trump Says He Has ‘Total’ Authority to Surpass Governors
The White House trade adviser, Peter Navarro, is charged with coordinating the country’s medical supply chain. He issued a warning today that a prolonged shutdown of nonessential commerce may result in a wide range of negative health effects. He further states that...
As Trump Criticizes Fauci, Chloroquine Study Halted Due to Increase in Fatal Heart Rhythms and Poor Americans Struggle with ‘Shelter in Place’
Over the weekend, President Trump signaled his frustration with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and a lead member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. This comes after Dr. Fauci said in an...
Scientists Find that NY COVID-19 Cases are from Europe as Number of Deaths Continue to Climb, but Surge at Hospitals Hasn’t Happened Yet
Research is pointing to data that shows that COVID-19 was in the New York area by mid-February. This was weeks before there was a confirmed case. According to geneticists, the origin of the strain of the virus in New York is from Europe, not Asia. Two independent...
As Vaccines and Treatments Get Closer to Human Trials, Will Antibody Tests Help to Gradually Reopen the Country?
Currently, there aren’t any treatment options specific to COVID-19. This has led to many scientists and doctors to try new and innovative therapies. It has also caused several potential therapies to be purported as a treatment without enough information to support...
Trump Blames the WHO for Lack of Response to COVID-19
The latest target of attack for President Trump’s blame regarding response to COVID-19 is the World Health Organization (WHO). In a press conference yesterday, he said that failures and mistakes by the organization resulted in the virus spreading the way it has. Due...
COVID-19 Killing More Men Than Women and Adults Over Children
New York City has become the center of the battle against COVID-19 here in the United States. While it’s infecting all people across the state, new numbers show that it’s hitting men harder and killing them at twice the rate. Per the city’s health department, there...
US Death Toll Undercounted as Black Americans are Infected at Alarming Rates
As of this past weekend, over 9,400 people across the country have been reported as succumbing to the virus. However, experts say that the true number of COVID-19 cases and deaths aren’t known and most likely much higher than the reported numbers. They express that...