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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday looked set to join local officials in advising Americans to wear masks when venturing out during the still-exploding coronavirus pandemic, as the U.S. death toll rose by 1,000 in a single … Continue reading Americans urged to wear masks outside as coronavirus pandemic worsens
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The coronavirus crisis is beginning to do something the city of San Francisco has been unable to accomplish for years – move homeless people off the streets and into shelters, including some of the city’s now-empty … Continue reading Coronavirus forces San Francisco to put homeless into hotels
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City hospitals and morgues bent under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, struggling to treat or bury casualties, as the state’s governor offered a grim prediction that the rest of the country … Continue reading New York reels at center of pandemic as home-bound Americans feel economic pain
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Infectious disease researchers are using Facebook Inc mobile location data to provide daily updates to U.S. cities and states evaluating the effectiveness of social distancing orders aimed at slowing the novel coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed … Continue reading In coronavirus fight, oft-criticized Facebook data aids U.S. cities, states
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration said on Thursday it was allocating $25 billion in emergency funding grants to public transportation systems facing a massive falloff in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. FILE PHOTO: An MTA transit worker cleans … Continue reading Trump administration awards $25 billion in emergency transit funding
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic’s mounting death toll began to overwhelm New York City morgues on Thursday as hospitals struggled to treat thousands of infected patients with a dwindling supply of ventilators and protective equipment. Funeral homes and … Continue reading New York as U.S. ‘microcosm’: Body count mounts, medical supplies dwindle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic triggered a record 6.6 million jobless claims in a week and killed nearly 1,000 Americans in a single day, the latest data show, as the crisis led officials to order more than 80% of … Continue reading U.S. deaths, joblessness mount as coronavirus exacts toll on Americans
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four new states imposed sweeping stay-at-home directives on Wednesday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, putting over 80% of Americans under lockdown as the number of deaths and cases in the United States soared to new … Continue reading Most Americans huddle indoors as coronavirus deaths keep spiking
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four new states imposed sweeping stay-at-home directives on Wednesday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, putting over 80% of Americans under lockdown as the number of deaths and cases in the United States soared to new … Continue reading Most Americans huddle indoors as coronavirus deaths keep spiking
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California’s aggressive stay-at-home measures are improving the prospects of slowing the coronavirus pandemic, but the state is still on track to run out of hospital beds in mid-May, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday. If residents … Continue reading California coronavirus hospitalizations will exceed available beds in May: governor
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The governor of New York on Wednesday clamped down harder on public gatherings in the face of the coronavirus, calling residents “selfish” for refusing to stay home as California’s governor warned his state may run … Continue reading New York scolds ‘selfish’ residents, California intensive care beds running out
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The governor of New York on Wednesday clamped down harder on public gatherings in the face of the coronavirus, calling residents “selfish” for refusing to stay home as California’s governor warned his state may run … Continue reading New York scolds ‘selfish’ residents, California intensive care beds running out
