President Donald Trump on Tuesday said new research shows the coronavirus is disproportionately affecting black Americans across the country. “This is a real problem and it is showing up very strongly in our data on the African-American community,” Trump said during his daily coronavirus briefing. “They are getting hit very, very hard,” he said. Dr. […]
Even as Asia, Europe and North America battle to keep the spread of coronavirus under control, public health officials are raising the alarm that infection rates in Africa could soon boom, while also undermining international efforts to end the pandemic. So far, African countries have been spared the high death tolls seen in Italy, Spain, […]
1 / 5 Virus Outbreak Mideast Disrupted Burials FILE – In this Friday, March 27, 2020 file photo, municipality workers bury the body of coronavirus victim on the outskirts of Herat province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Across the Middle East and parts of South Asia, bereaved families have faced traumatic restrictions on burying their dead […]
WASHINGTON — Trump used Monday’s briefing of the coronavirus task force to lash out at several members of the press, despite having recently praised media coverage of his response to the crisis as “very fair.” After kicking off the briefing by praising his own administration for its response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Trump opened […]
MADRID — Over the weekend, more than 2,100 people died in Spain as a result of the coronavirus, yet here we are, allowing ourselves to feel hopeful. The neighbors looked weary Monday evening but clapped and cheered enthusiastically from their Madrid balconies. The weekend’s tally — tabulating the lives lost between midmorning Friday and midmorning […]
HBO’s John Oliver, in his latest “Last Week Tonight” episode over the weekend, blasted the awkward relationship between President Donald Trump and One America News as contributing to the dangerous dumbing-down of America during the coronavirus pandemic. “The kind of misinformation OAN’s spewing right now could end up getting people killed, and sadly their message […]
This article is part of a series tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on major businesses, and will be updated. It was originally published on April 6. The COVID-19 pandemic is sending users to Facebook Inc.’s social-networking, messaging and live-streaming platforms in record numbers, but that does not automatically mean more money for Facebook. […]
This article is part of a series tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on major businesses, and will be updated. It was originally published on April 6. For Apple Inc., the most valuable U.S. company, COVID-19 creates questions about supply and demand. On the supply side, some factories in Apple’s AAPL, +8.72% Asian supply […]
Messages of support and well wishes for a speedy recovery have been pouring in from across the political divide as well as from political leaders around the world after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care late Monday as his coronavirus symptoms “worsened.” Johnson, 55, had been admitted to a hospital in […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Monday evening overruled a decision by the state’s governor to postpone their primary election from this week to June, putting the Tuesday election back on just hours after the the governor had tried to push it back. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday morning issued an executive order to postpone state elections scheduled […]