Dive Brief: Top Trump administration public health officials denied President Donald Trump ever asked them to slow down COVID-19 testing to tamp rising case counts, despite the president’s weekend remarks to the contrary, at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday. The U.S. has conducted more than 27 million tests to date, with a… Read More »
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said President Trump was joking when he said he asked officials to “slow down” coronavirus testing. Navarro was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday to react to the president’s comments during his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Come on now, Jake. You know it was tongue-in-cheek,” Navarro said. “Come… Read More »
Hospital emergency departments are seeing steep declines in the numbers of patients they’re treating, and April was an especially rough month. In fact, from April to 2019 to April 2020 there was a 42% decline in emergency department visits, according to data published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the U.S. Centers for… Read More »
April 17, 2020 Posted By Categories Gary Schwitzer is the founder of HealthNewsReview.org and has been its publisher for 14 years. He tweets as @garyschwitzer or as @HealthNewsRevu This is what STAT reported in what they labeled an “Exclusive” last evening. Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment… Read More »
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. At his home in the Bronx, where he lies in bed with a fever, Jose Peralta keeps replaying the scene in his head. It was Monday, March 16, the start of an unusually… Read More »
SATURDAY, March 21, 2020 — Governors in a total of five states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and New York — have now advised residents to stay at home indefinitely as of Saturday, meaning that about one in every four Americans now lives under such “shelter in place” orders. “I don’t come to this… Read More »