Covid-19

Fox News host Jillian Mele cautioned the network's viewers on Sunday after actor Kevin Sorbo compared COVID-19 to the seasonal flu.

A long CNN interview conducted by "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper with White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow ended with Donald Trump's appointee lashing back at the host for running a clip of comments he made about the coronavirus pandemic that proved to not only be untrue but also contradicted health experts in the administration.

Calling Donald Trump's latest comments on coronavirus deaths in the United States "tone-deaf," CNN "Inside Politics" host John King noted the election is only months away and things are not looking good for the president's re-election.

Faced with declining poll numbers in multiple swing states, Donald Trump's 2020 campaign strategists are gearing up for a full-throated assault on China as the cause of the COVID-19 crisis that has shut the country down in the hopes that it will be a winning issue for voters unhappy with his bungling response that has led to over 65,000 U.S. deaths so far.

According to a detailed report at the Daily Beast, Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are scheming behind the scenes to override lawmakers at the state level and force people back to work during the coronavirus crisis to save their political fortunes with the November election looming.

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have successfully recovered and have now volunteered to donate their blood and plasma for COVID-19 research. After learning they had coronavirus antibodies, they were approached for studies, the actor revealed on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! “We will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what I would like to call the ‘Hank-ccine,'” the actor joked on the radio show.“There could be no better ending to this international catastrophe than if the cure turns out to be the blood of Tom Hanks,” host Peter Sagal responded.The couple first tested posi...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Careful, “covidiots.” You’re being watched, you’re being judged, and there’s a decent chance that somewhere on social media, you’re being shamed.Venturing out in public these days without a face mask or with a less-than-perfect sense of personal space has never been more likely to get you identified, labeled and publicly ridiculed. “Covidiot” is the insult of choice on Twitter, a mashup that takes the first part of its name from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The “FloridaMorons” hashtag was also popular before beaches were closed, gaining popularit...

AUSTIN, Texas — Eyeing reports that more Texans have died in the first three months of 2020 than the historical average, some experts question whether the death toll from the new coronavirus might be an undercount.During January, February and March, 53,583 Texans died — 1,473 more than the average for that period in the previous six years, according to a USA Today Network analysis. Texas attributed 41 of the deaths to COVID-19 from Jan. 1 to March 31, with the first victim on March 17, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.Doctors told the USA Today Network that they could...

MIAMI — Florida’s Department of Health on Saturday morning confirmed 735 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state total of confirmed cases to more than 35,000. Saturday’s daily total of 35,463 brings the number of newly confirmed cases back under 1,000, which had been a weeklong trend until Friday’s report topped out at 1,038. There were also 50 new deaths announced, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,364 — a bump of four more than the health department had reported on Friday morning. Of those latest deaths, 18 were in South Florida. Nine more people died in Miami-Dade, bringing the c...

A massive wave of coronavirus infections is blasting through the world's largest prison population in the United States even as officials begin opening up their economies, saying the disease has plateaued.

President Donald Trump's response to the COVID-19 was the focus of a Washington Post deep-dive that was published online on Saturday.

Senior advisor Jared Kushner embraced the findings of an internal White House coronavirus model that was conducted by an economist, according to an in-depth new Washington Post expose on the administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.