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...