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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
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials said on Thursday they would distribute a stockpile of personal protective equipment, including 192,000 N95 respirator masks, which they seized this week from an alleged hoarder. FILE PHOTO: Various N95 respiration masks at a laboratory … Continue reading U.S. officials redistribute protective gear seized from alleged hoarder
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
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
A healthcare worker removes and discards personal protective equipment (PPE) into a trash can after wheeling the bodies of deceased people outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Brooklyn borough of … Continue reading Staff at a NY hospital put protective gear in outdoor trash can after handling bodies
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
(Reuters) – When the coronavirus struck Sylvia LeRoy, she turned to the hospital she knew best – Brooklyn’s Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center – where she has worked for seven years as a labor and delivery nurse and planned to … Continue reading Coronavirus-infected New York nurse finds hospital transformed as a patient
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
CORNWALL ISLAND, Ontario (Reuters) – Canada and the United States have closed their border to non-essential traffic to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, but one rural corner of the vast frontier remains open: an indigenous territory that straddles … Continue reading For Mohawk community that straddles Canada and U.S., the border is no barrier to coronavirus
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
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
