If you check your bank account and find your stimulus check deposited, you may be among the first taxpayers to receive a stimulus check. The first stimulus checks were deposited into bank accounts starting last MORE
London Breed wasn’t going to wait around for COVID-19. San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case of the coronavirus when Breed, the city’s 45-year-old first-term mayor, declared a state of emergency in late February. MORE
A natural experiment in stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus is playing out on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, where an early start to social distancing is pitted against a late one. As MORE
Iceland has achieved something no other country has: tested 10% of its population for coronavirus, a figure far higher than anywhere else in the world. No country or scientist or doctor has all the answers about the pandemic that has swept MORE
More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD.O), according to new data based on patient observation. The MORE
I THINK it’s Friday, right? 🤔🤔 It could be Tuesday for all I know; the days begin to look alike—- Wake up; follow the cats’ orders, (usually involving food); complete daily power-walk up and down MORE
WASHINGTON — In Massachusetts, state leaders said they had confirmed a vast order of personal protective equipment for their health workers; then the Trump administration took control of the shipments. In Kentucky, the head of MORE
BALTIMORE — After searching for four days, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police have found the body of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s missing daughter. Authorities found Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean’s body MORE
President Donald Trump on Monday questioned whether politics tinged the findings of a newly released Health and Human Services inspector general report that found hospitals have been most concerned about a shortage of coronavirus testing MORE
The White House coronavirus task force had its biggest fight yet on Saturday, pitting economic adviser Peter Navarro against infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci. At issue: How enthusiastically should the White House tout the prospects MORE
IT IS BECOMING clearer every day that the scale of the societal disruption caused by the novel coronavirus is like nothing most people on Earth have ever witnessed. One stark indicator of the pandemic’s far-reaching impact MORE
The twist of fate that has cast Jared Kushner as a would-be savior in the greatest public health crisis to confront the United States in a century is a dramatic one. The moment of national MORE
Though it’s just a four-minute drive across the lagoon from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club, and ten minutes from the Palm Beach outposts of Chanel and Louis Vuitton, Howley’s diner has become an emblem of America’s stark new economic MORE
(Washington Post illustration; iStock) By Drew Jones April 3 at 6:37 PM For many zoos and aquariums, the lack of guests has both opened up and forced them down new avenues. Some are now holding live streams for MORE
Revisions were made on March 30, 2020, to reflect the following: New information about asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infections Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of infection or infection severity MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers on this Free Chat Friday; We chat to live and live to chat, because at the rate things are happening, we have to start the “sorting” and chatting is our way MORE
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, it’s clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a MORE
Sean Hannity on Wednesday night flipped out at the growing criticism of the way that he and other Fox News personalities have covered the coronavirus pandemic. The “Hannity” host, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, MORE
John Prine: The influential singer-songwriter was hospitalized on March 26 after “a sudden onset of Covid-19 symptoms,” his family said in a statement. Two days later, he was in critical condition, the statement said. Mr. Prine, 73, MORE
“. . . .some of the films that have changed cinematic history barely made a blip at the box office when they were first released. They were actually undisputed movie bombs. . . . . They’ve all proven MORE
“….Today, the U.S. reported that 1 million people have been tested for the coronavirus—a milestone that the White House once promised it would hit the first week of March.” But things are not going as smoothly as MORE
Guidance on whether to wear a face mask has been evolving. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently looking at recommending masks be worn whenever we go out. “It is still most important to limit MORE
After the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Bill Gates gave a TED Talks with what he predicted was coming, a pandemic originating with a virus. He discussed how we needed to prepare for it, because at MORE
A common fixture in refrigerators, furniture and footwear, polyurethane plastic is pretty much always in high demand. Humans worldwide cycle through millions of tons of the durable substance each year, sending the bulk of what’s MORE
Last week, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles sent out a tweet asking individuals self-isolating at home to recreate their favorite pieces of artwork. But there’s a catch: Participants must make their masterpieces using everyday household items. MORE