Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, two of the top members on the White House coronavirus task force, urged people leaving New York to self-quarantine for 14 days. New York has been hit hard by the Coronavirus, with New York City reporting more than 13,000 infections from the virus and 126 deaths. Read Story…
U.S. governors and mayors on Monday became more desperate in their pleas for help obtaining medical supplies from the federal government as the military prepared to set up field hospitals in New York and Seattle to ease the strain on overloaded health services. Read Story…
Disgraced producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein, who is currently an inmate at a New York prison, has tested positive for coronavirus. Read Story…
New York’s mayor issued a stark warning that hospitals across the state would experience major shortages of critical medical supplies in less than 10 days as the city struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus. Read Story…
State leaders are scrambling to make up major gaps in critical medical equipment they need to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus as the outbreak spreads rapidly across the country. Several governors have complained that the federal government has refused to address their pleas for millions of masks, ventilators and other supplies. Read Story…
A “ground stop” for all flights to New York City airports including John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark was issued by the FAA, briefly grounding all in-bound flights. Staffing issues related to the coronavirus were cited as the reason. Read Story…
A Whole Foods employee working at one of its grocery stores in New York City tested positive for the coronavirus and was placed in quarantine, a spokeswoman for the Amazon.com Inc-owned company said on Thursday. Read Story…