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COVID-19’s lethality provides a grim opportunity to track its spread. COVID-19’s lethality provides a grim opportunity to track its spread.
Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy
As the U.S. confronts the coronavirus outbreak, Americans continue to rate a wide range of federal agencies favorably, including two at the forefront of dealing with COVID-19.
With countries still struggling to curb the outbreak Italy warns the EU could fail over its response.
A prestigious scientific panel told the White House Tuesday that it doesn't look like coronavirus will go away once the weather warms up. President Trump has claimed that "when it gets a little warmer [the virus] miraculously goes away."
AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus infections are spiking in Japan and creating hot spots in India's congested cities just as the U.S. and some of the hardest-hit European countries are considering when...
US and UK suffer highest number of daily deaths since outbreak began, as glimmers of hope emerge elsewhere in the world.
People surging unmonitored over borders in a volatile part of the world has sparked dire warnings.
Al-Monitor
Iran hawks are doubling down on sanctions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and Democrats can’t agree on how much relief the United States should give Iran.
British scientists have pushed back against an influential new coronavirus model that predicts the UK will be the worst-hit European country, with a death toll from Covid-19 possibly much higher than previously thought.
AP NEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, face, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect front-line...
Over 1.48 million infections are confirmed in at least 184 countries and territories, including more than 88,000 deaths.
Worldwide confirmed COVID-19 cases approach 1.5 million as global death toll exceeds 85,000.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) predicts a contraction of between 13% and 32% this year.
Al-Monitor
The United States opposes Iran’s request for a $5 billion emergency loan request from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help it cope with the coronavirus pandemic, Al-Monitor has learned.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who remains in intensive care with Covid-19, “has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team,” Chancellor Rishi Sunak said.
A majority of Americans -- 55% -- now say the federal government has done a poor job preventing the spread of coronavirus in the United States, up eight points in about a week, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS as the nationwide death toll from the virus rose above 12,000.
NBC News
Does hydroxychloroquine cure coronavirus? Trump and Cuomo have promoted hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus COVID-19 treatment. Does HCQ work for coronavirus?
As the Chinese city lifts its quarantine, residents share lessons learnt from the outbreak.
Asia Times
Globally, about one in every four people lives in one of South Asia’s three most populous countries, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which collectively occupy just 3% of the world’s tot…
Researchers at two leading universities take different approaches to creating cough-analysing tools.
California's efforts to stem the spread of the virus have been bold and controversial -- but appear to be working.
The new coronavirus is posing an unprecedented election year challenge to candidates running for president.
AP NEWS
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — At the construction site in Tel Aviv, Jamal Salman and the other Palestinian workers wore gloves and masks, and their employer provided apartments for them to stay...
The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali predicts COVID-19 will worsen security situation in country.
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Doctors are reaching for drugs that dampen the immune response — but these also undermine the body’s own fight against the coronavirus. Uncertainty is hampering doctors’ ability to choose treatments.
