Locations with Confirmed COVID-19 Cases China Hong Kong Macau Taiwan Afghanistan Algeria Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Belgium Brazil Cambodia Canada Croatia Denmark Estonia Egypt Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Iceland India Iran Iraq Israel MORE
Cutting to the heart of the matter with her characteristic bluntness, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez this week pointed out the absurdity of placing Pence in charge of a potentially looming health crisis. “Mike Pence literally does not MORE
Let’s roll the tape, shall we? The world according to Steve Scalise goes something like this: “Anybody that’s playing partisan games with this, especially while the president’s in a foreign country, should be ashamed of MORE
Now that the CDC has said the coronovirus may be coming to your community, it’s time to talk about what we should be doing at home to prepare without panic. NPR has had the conversation MORE
Secretary Devos Claims a Report Showing Charters Average 40% Failure Rate is Fake News, but Doesn’t Know What the Actual Failure Rate is Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday and MORE
In late 2014, health officials belatedly became aware of an HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana. With fewer than 24,000 people, this rural county rarely saw a single new case in a year, according to The New York Times. But by MORE
Both men told a White House news conference that the risk to the American people remained very low. The announcement came as new cases of Covid-19, the infection caused by the Wuhan coronavirus, continue to MORE
Department of Health and Human Services plans to shift $136 million from the following programs to aid in their response to the Coronavirus. Their decision to shift funds does not require Congressional approval. $37 million MORE
Organisers of the world’s biggest sporting events are counting the cost of the coronavirus outbreak, which is threatening the cancellation of this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo while disrupting competitions around the world. The spread of MORE
Here are some of the things Trump has done to shut down America’s ability to respond to pandemic disease. Trump’s first budget proposal contained proposed cuts to the CDC that former Director Tom Frieden warned were “unsafe at MORE
A Miami man who flew to China worried he might have coronavirus. He may owe thousands. Remember when Trump decided he’d get rid of the ACA by approving junk plans that could impose pre-existing conditions MORE
The coronavirus has hit Italy with alarming speed, with case numbers expanding to over 200 in a matter of days in the northern region and spreading. Officials are unsure how the virus reached the country, MORE
A man trying to prove the earth is flat, died when his rocket crashed Saturday in the desert in Barstow California. “A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during MORE
When LGBTQ students at Brigham Young University caught wind of the change, they ran to the statue of the university’s namesake to celebrate. Women kissed women and men kissed men on Wednesday, extolling the school’s MORE
The World Health Organization cautioned years ago that a mysterious “disease X” could spark an international contagion. The new coronavirus, with its ability to quickly morph from mild to deadly, is emerging as a contender. From MORE
ANSA) – Rome, February 21 – Six people have been infected with the coronavirus in Lombardy, regional welfare councillor Giulio Gallera said Friday. Gallera urged people in the towns of Codogno, Castiglione d’Adda and Casalpusterlengo MORE
As the Supreme Court considers hearing Texas v. United States, which challenges the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), the ACA has hit its highest approval rating since the Kaiser Family Foundation began polling MORE
It’s a video but I’ll break down the stats: Health Care Expenditure per Capita: The USA is the highest in the worldNumber of US Citizens without Health Insurance: >37,000,000How much Medicare for All would save MORE
SpaceX has signed a deal with a space tourism company to organize a trip orbiting the Earth for a handful of adventurous travelers. Space Adventures — which organized eight tourism trips to the International Space Station MORE
The newly reported cases of Covid-19, the disease, caused by the respiratory virus [Rare coronavirus cases can have long incubation period, warns leading Chinese respiratory expert] , were concentrated in Wuhan, Hubei’s capital and the MORE
CBS5-SW Arkansas LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is claiming that China “continues to lie” about the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in the country and that it won’t allow experts from the MORE
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a Shawnee State University professor who alleged his constitutional rights were violated when he was disciplined for refusing to identify a transgender MORE
A 6-year-old Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility without her mother’s consent after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at school, an attorney for the family said. The child was MORE
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against Trump-approved Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas, the latest legal setback to the administration’s efforts to remake the safety net health care program. A three judge panel in MORE
SEATTLE — Unprecedented data sharing and breakneck genetic sleuthing are charting the new coronavirus’s travels around the globe. By cataloging tiny genetic tweaks to the virus, called 2019 novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV, computational biologist Trevor Bedford at MORE