Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, speaks after a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services on June 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Joshua Roberts | Getty Images Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, said on Sunday that the… Read More »
The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has sent a stark warning to residents living outside the state’s “hot zones”, saying if the number of coronavirus cases doesn’t improve he would consider locking down the whole state. Speaking with 3AW this morning, Mr Andrews said: “If we don’t get control of this really quickly we will end… Read More »
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday that it is unlikely there will be widespread deployment of a coronavirus vaccine this year. “I think we’ll have to have one more cycle of this virus in the fall, heading into the winter, before we get to a vaccine,” Gottlieb said on “Squawk Box.” “I really think a vaccine is… Read More »
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Nurses part of National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the US, protest in front of the White House about the lack of personal protective equipment on 21 April 2020 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm… Read More »
Claudia Greco/AGF/ShutterstockShutterstock The CDC warned Americans this week that they should prepare for the new coronavirus, named COVID-19, to disrupt their lives. The New York Times quotes the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, Nancy Messonnier, M.D. as saying “We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that… Read More »
Chinese communist officials should expect the coronavirus outbreak to get worse before it gets better, according to the Communist Party general secretary. “We have to be clear that the peak of the outbreak has not yet been reached,” Xi Jinping, chairman of the government, told his top party lieutenants on Friday. Xi sounded that cautionary… Read More »