by Jim Heath | Apr 28, 2020 | coronavirus, Fox News, Headlines, Health
The New York Times today said it would not retract or apologize for columns critical of Fox News host Sean Hannity’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic after Hannity’s attorney threatened legal action against the newspaper. “The columns are...
by Jim Heath | Apr 28, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Science
As the nation confronts one of its worst public health disasters in generations, a moment that demands a leader willing to marshal the full might of the American scientific establishment, the White House is occupied by a president whose administration has diminished...
by Jim Heath | Apr 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
President Trump said today that he takes no responsibility for any spike in people using disinfectants improperly after dangerously suggesting last week that ingesting it could serve as a coronavirus treatment. Asked about the increase during a White House news...
by Jim Heath | Apr 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
A leader of the ReOpen NC group revealed in a Facebook post that she tested positive for COVID-19. Audrey Whitlock posted to the ReOpen NC Facebook page early Sunday saying her two-week quarantine was ending. She described herself as an “an asymptomatic COVID19...
by Jim Heath | Apr 27, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Headlines, Joe Biden, Polls, Trump
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump in a new national poll that shows a reversal in the race amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Forty-four percent of respondents in the USA Today–Suffolk University poll said they backed the...
by Jim Heath | Apr 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The United States now has more than one million coronavirus cases across the country – accounting for a third of the global tally – as the death toll rises to more than 56,000. Infections across the US increased by more than 27,000 on Monday, bringing the...