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Ford Joins Effort to Make Ventilators
This briefing is no longer updating. Read the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak here. Ford Motor and General Electric will produce 50,000 ventilators. Ford Motor and General Electric’s health care division said on Monday that they together planned to produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days to help meet the needs of hospitals …
Colorado Springs King Soopers employee tests positive for coronavirus, health alert sent out to the community
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – An employee at a Colorado Springs King Soopers has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee works at the location at Academy and Woodmen and was last there on the 28th. The El Paso County Health Department wants to alert anyone who may have been in the store on the following …
Trump’s path to extending coronavirus guidelines was led by health experts and the scenes at one New York hospital
Images from the besieged hospital, only seven miles from where Trump was raised in Jamaica Estates, had a sobering effect on the President this week as he was mulling options for returning Americans to work, people familiar with the matter said. Even as members of Trump’s task force offered models showing potentially millions of Americans …
The Health 202: Joe Biden is likely to draw on Obama health experts if he wins the White House
THE PROGNOSIS Former vice president Joe Biden during a virtual press briefing. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Polling indicates the coronavirus pandemic could make it harder for former vice president Joe Biden to beat President Trump. But Biden’s team is arguing the opposite: That the virus and subsequent economic landslide highlight precisely why Americans should elect the …
Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Deaths Could Exceed 200,000; Social Curbs Extended
New infections in U.S. soar and the nation is warned that 200,000 could die. Faced with the grim prospect that 200,000 Americans could die even with aggressive action to slow the spread of the coronavirus, President Trump extended the guidelines on avoiding nonessential travel, staying away from work, visiting bars and restaurants and gathering in …
Coronavirus Live Updates: 200,000 Americans Could Die, Warn Top Health Officials
200,000 Americans could die even if the U.S. takes aggressive action, Fauci says. Two of the top doctors advising President Trump on the coronavirus pandemic warned on Sunday that as many as 200,000 Americans could die during the outbreak, even with much of the country already under stay-at-home orders and practicing social distancing. Dr. Anthony …
Live Coronavirus News Coverage and Updates
Mr. Trump denied on Sunday that the prospect of a quarantine was a threat. “I didn’t go around threatening,” he said during a White House briefing. He raised the idea because the region has the most confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, but he offered no details about how his administration would enforce it. …
German health institute warns pandemic could overstretch system -paper
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s health system could face strains similar to those in Italy if the coronavirus outbreak in the country worsens, the head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the federal agency responsible for disease control, told a newspaper. A general view of the almost empty street Kaiserdamm, as the spread of coronavirus disease …
Monthly poll seeks to gauge mental health of UK under coronavirus | Society
A mental health charity has teamed up with academic institutions across the UK to monitor the psychological wellbeing of the nation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps around the world. They will conduct monthly polls of Britons living under lockdown and any measures that followso that emerging mental health problems are spotted early on and interventions …
How Will the Coronavirus End?
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has …