by Jim Heath | Jul 13, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
It’s all about him. With polls showing him way behind Joe Biden in key battleground states, Donald Trump this morning accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of lying about the coronavirus in order to obstruct his reelection. Trump retweeted...
by Jim Heath | Jul 12, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
When you think Donald Trump can’t go any lower, well, of course he can. Trump’s advisers spent the weekend undercuting the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had...
by Jim Heath | Jul 12, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
A 37-year-old Ohio man who claimed the coronavirus pandemic was just ‘hype’ and repeatedly refused to wear a face mask has died from COVID-19. Richard Rose wrote on Facebook on July 1 that he was experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, and went to get tested. The...
by Jim Heath | Jul 12, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Florida today reported a record 15,300 new coronavirus cases, the most by any state in a single day and a bleak sign of the United States’ failure to control the pandemic about six months after the first infection surfaced in the country. The staggering number was the...
by Jim Heath | Jul 11, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
President Trump today wore a mask in a public setting for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic struck the nation in earnest in March. Trump wore a black mask during a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The institution...
by Jim Heath | Jul 11, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
“I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.” Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, this week after attending a so-called “COVID party,” according...
