Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that the White House coronavirus task force will likely disband within a month, even as the number of coronavirus cases climbed passed 1.2 million and the death toll passed 71,000. The slow shutdown will happen because of “the tremendous progress we’ve made as a country,” Pence said during a… read on >
A new, mutated strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has become dominant and appears to be more contagious than the strain that spread during the early stages of the pandemic, scientists report. They said the new strain appeared in February in Europe, spread to the East Coast of the United States and has been… read on >
U.S. researchers have started enrolling participants in a study to assess the rate of new coronavirus infection among children and their families. The study — sponsored and funded by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — will also examine if rates of new coronavirus infection differ between children with and without… read on >
As many states began to reopen their economies on Monday, a new internal report from the Trump administration predicts that will come at a cost: There will be 200,000 new coronavirus cases and 3,000 deaths every day by the end of May. Those projections, based on data collected by various government agencies, are way up… read on >
Because people who receive a donor kidney are often on immune-suppressing medications, they’re at extremely high risk of dying if COVID-19 strikes, a new report warns. The study, from doctors at Montefiore Medical Center in hard-hit New York City, looked at outcomes for 36 kidney transplant patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 16 and April… read on >
The U.S. coronavirus death toll could reach 100,000, President Donald Trump predicted Sunday night. That number is far higher than the 60,000 lives lost that was predicted just a few weeks ago, but Trump continued to push states to reopen their economies. In a virtual town hall meeting on Fox News, Trump acknowledged that COVID-19… read on >
Many U.S. states are preparing to emerge from their quarantine cocoons, hoping to get their economies back on track. But experts are concerned that these states have not yet created the public health infrastructure needed to safely reopen without causing a second wave of COVID-19 infections. In particular, tens of thousands of new public health… read on >
The coronavirus pandemic has families spending plenty of “quality time” together, but living under the same roof 24 hours a day can tax relationships, an expert in child development says. This is “a completely new and unique situation,” said Murray Krantz, a professor in the College of Human Sciences at Florida State University, in Tallahassee.… read on >
As national guidelines on social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic expired Thursday, the White House announced an initiative to produce a COVID-19 vaccine that could be available nationwide by January. President Donald Trump said it is not too optimistic to try to produce roughly 300 million doses of vaccine in eight months, enough for all… read on >
A 3-week-old Texas infant in critical condition with COVID-19 was successfully treated and recovered, doctors report. This is one of the first cases of its kind, according to the team of doctors at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). They noted that the initial belief that children aren’t at risk of… read on >
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