The Javits Convention Center’s stunning transformation into a 2,000-bed hospital complex to treat coronavirus patients was in full swing Monday, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave a sneak peek at the facility. “For us, a major thrust is increasing hospital capacity,” Cuomo told reporters inside the cavernous Midtown convention center. “We’re trying to reduce the rate […]
Wikimedia Commons/Jim Gathany Exterior of the CDC Museum. As the coronavirus epidemic spread around the globe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided restrictive guidance on who should be tested, archived pages on its website show. While agencies in other countries were advising and conducting widespread testing, the CDC, charged with setting the U.S. […]
That’s (almost) a rap on the coronavirus for America’s sweethearts. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, who were released from an Australian hospital last week after testing positive for the COVID-19 virus, shared an update on their recovery over Twitter TWTR, +3.09% on Sunday. “Hey, folks. Two weeks after our first symptoms and we feel better,” […]
A reporter wearing a latex glove raises his hand to ask President Trump a question during a coronavirus briefing at the White House. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — A member of the White House press corps who has been in the briefing room several times with President Trump has come down with a suspected case […]
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday he is again raising the protection condition on the Pentagon, which will further restrict access to one of the world’s largest office buildings. The Pentagon will now be at Level C, the second highest of the military’s five health protection conditions. Esper had previously raised the Pentagon’s health protection […]
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, made his first video address after four days of cable news silence to discuss the coronavirus pandemic. The address, made from his family home in Wilmington, Del., was the campaign’s first public foray into telecampaigning. Biden has participated over video in […]
Buying every roll of toilet paper in sight? Enjoying beer pong on your favorite spring break beach? Can’t be bothered to wash your hands or cover up when you cough or sneeze? Then you just might be a: ‘Covidiot.’ The term has emerged as a catchall for those misbehaving during the coronavirus pandemic. The Urban […]
The New York Stock Exchange is going all-electronic on Monday, marking the first time that the centuries-old exchange will operate in regular hours without its legion of trusted flesh-and-blood floor traders. “It’s unprecedented, it’s never happened before,” said one NYSE official who declined to be identified because they weren’t authorized to publicly talk about the […]
‘One of the things we’re saying is tax it back a year from now. So we don’t have to worry about a big bureaucratic means test. Mail them all out to everybody and let’s get them back from the folks who don’t need them next year.’ That’s New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explaining what she […]
‘This is a planned, organized partial shutdown of the U.S. economy in the second quarter. The overall goal is to keep everyone, households and businesses, whole… It is a huge shock and we are trying to cope with it and keep it under control.’ That’s Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard explaining […]