By the time the first U.S. case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Washington state on Jan. 20, it had already infected hundreds of people in China and had spread to Japan, Thailand and South Korea. While the Washington State Department of Health had prepared a plan for the arrival of the virus that detailed how […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter million people in the United States could die as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Trump administration officials said Tuesday. That grim forecast is based on statistical models that have guided the administration’s response, and which were displayed at Tuesday’s White House press briefing of the coronavirus task force. In […]
April will pose a crucial test for stock-market investors looking for signs that the worst of the market carnage triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic is past, as the outbreak continues to claim lives and promises historic, near-term economic pain. Bears contend the sheer uncertainty surrounding the impact of the pandemic is likely to pave […]
As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, online daters are having longer conversations but finding fewer new dating prospects, Match Group Inc. said Tuesday, which is leading to a change in strategy. The new chief executive of Match Group MTCH, -0.94% — which owns Tinder, Match.com and other online-dating properties — wrote a letter about […]
Jeffrey Gundlach on Tuesday said that the worst isn’t over for the stock market, after a brutal quarter that left the Dow with its worst decline in the first three months of a calendar year in its 124-year history. Speaking during a webcast, the DoubleLine Capital founder said that the stock market remains “dysfunctional” from […]
April is going to be rough. The news is likely to get much worse as the coronavirus outbreak spreads, upending lives and the economy, while tens of millions of people hunker down and isolate themselves at home in a bid to slow its spread. We’re really going to need distractions to stay sane. Streaming services […]
How bad has it been for the U.S. stock market in the first three months of 2020? In a word, historic, but returns are almost certain to improve over the longer term despite the current pain, if history is any guide. Indeed, it has been punishing for investors, as the market went into a coronavirus-sparked […]
How do you strike a balance between the country’s economic life and actual human life? On Sunday, President Trump yielded to advice from health professionals and said he will extend the social-distancing guidelines until April 30. Previously, Trump said he’d consider ending them by Easter. “Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before victory is […]
Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images A mural dedicated to Italian medical workers on an exterior wall of Pope John XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy. COMO, Italy — Our world has been turned outside in. It’s now almost six weeks since the university in Milan has been closed, and three weeks since the official lockdown was announced. We […]
A handful of white tents popped up in Central Park’s East Meadow on Sunday. The structures are Mount Sinai Hospital’s new 68-bed field hospital and are just one creative way that New York City is hoping to create 40,000 more hospital beds. Mayor Bill de Blasio estimates that the city will need the additional beds, […]