The nation could begin to see food shortages for some products if the people working on the supply chain lack personal protective equipment, warns an internal Trump administration document obtained by Yahoo News. |
Now comes Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, a no-nonsense logistician plucked from the Pentagon's Joint Staff to take charge of the procurement and distribution of urgently needed medical equipment. |
A document circulated by the health department of Catalonia recommends that emergency teams and health care workers stop using ventilators for patients older than 80, and further recommends that extremely ill victims of COVID-19 be allowed to die at home rather than being taken to the hospital. |
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting all Americans, but it is hitting the poor the hardest, in part because those workers simply can't afford to adhere to social distancing restrictions if it means going without a paycheck. |
Rep. Adam Schiff's proposal for a 9/11-style commission to study the nation's response to the coronavirus outbreak "is not an exercise in casting blame or scoring political points, but something that the American people should rightly expect from their government as an exercise in accountability," he said. |
The latest news and information on the pandemic from Yahoo News reporters in the United States and around the world. |
Two Army generals took critical actions early to stop the spread of the coronavirus in Asia and Europe from spreading to military bases. |
It may be true that planning for the fall election will not defeat the coronavirus, but it is a way of responding to it. |
Louisiana is poised to become the next epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, White House officials said Thursday, citing new data that shows that 26 percent of the tests for COVID-19 in that state in recent days have come back positive. |
In recents weeks, an intense amount of intention has been placed on data about of coronavirus cases and deaths. Are these numbers accurate enough to be building public policy on? |
Last Saturday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan closed the state's beaches, leaving the state's 7,719 miles of shoreline to piping plovers and sand crabs. |
The first reported cases came from China in December, eventually spreading to nearly every other country on earth over the ensuing three months. |
As the worsening coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the country, millions of Americans living with diabetes face heightened risks from COVID-19. |
The day after boasting that gasoline prices could fall to under $1 a gallon, President Trump said he had arranged a deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia that would lead to substantially higher oil prices. |
"It's crazy," J-L Cauvin said during an interview on the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast. "It's like eight years of a career shot into your vein in 72 hours." |
To see how pervasive COVID-19 has become - more than 171 countries currently have at least one positive patient - we are tracking active cases on a 3D map. |
New data suggests the two West Coast states may have slowed the spread of coronavirus. How they did it. |
Long before the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, and then soon spread to nearly every country on Earth, a conference in 2018 offered proof that epidemiologists at the CDC and other institutions were aware that a new pandemic was poised to strike. |
President Trump shied away Wednesday from issuing domestic travel restrictions or a national lockdown to try and beat back the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic that, in a best case scenario, is expected to kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. |
A New York City emergency room physician compares her experience fighting COVID-19 to that of post-hurricane relief efforts as the city continues to deal with waves of patients. |
When Ronnie Krensel went in for his most recent checkup following chemotherapy on March 21, it wasn't anything like the ones he'd had before. Upon his arrival at the Southhampton Stony Brook Hospital in Long Island, N.Y., a doctor met Krensel in a hazmat suit in a large tent outside the facility, where he was asked "a series of rapid-fire questions" and then sent to a negative-pressure room, which prevents cross-contamination, for his visit. |
Worldwide efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus have caused a massive drop in global emissions. Does the pandemic present an opportunity to accelerate the fight against climate change? |
With the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surging nationwide and health officials warning that, even in a best-case scenario, deaths from the disease could top 100,000 in the U.S., the government is reviewing its guidance on the use of face masks by the general population. |
The letter amounts to a desperate appeal to his chain of command to get most of his sailors off the ship, where the virus is spreading out of control, and into individual quarantine lodgings that are based on federal guidelines. |
While the Washington State Department of Health had prepared a plan for the arrival of the virus in January, it assumed it still had weeks before the disease would reach the U.S. "In three days, the plan was trashed. We went through every step," Marcia Goldoft, a clinical epidemiologist with the Washington State DOH, told Yahoo News. "I don't think anyone involved has ever seen anything go this fast." |
Yahoo News is a member of the One Free Press Coalition and is publishing the group's latest "10 Most Urgent" list below to highlight the increasingly dangerous climate for journalism and free expression around the world in an effort to roll back repressive anti-press policies. |
Nearly a quarter million people in the United States could die as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Trump administration officials said Tuesday. |
As cases of COVID-19 in New York City continue to climb, makeshift emergency field hospitals are popping up and transforming some of the city's most iconic sites. |
Congressional Republicans have resisted allocating the billions of dollars experts say are necessary to implement nationwide mail-in voting ahead of the presidential election. |
The coronavirus pandemic has forced restaurants across the country to close or dramatically limit their business. Will the industry survive the outbreak? |
The New York Times reported this week that almost a dozen Liberty University students have come down with COVID-19 symptoms since the school reopened last week. But Liberty University officials have since pushed back on these claims, calling the Times story "fake news". Now, students are choosing sides in who they believe is telling the truth. |
Some conservative commentators have begun questioning the reported death tolls and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19. |
As countries around the world look for ways to track coronavirus infections using people's personal smartphones, privacy experts and technologists warn the U.S. government faces an uphill battle to put such surveillance into practice. |
Many hospitals are putting together triage committees made up of doctors and ethicists who can help individual frontline doctors and nurses make on-the-spot decisions about where a needed ventilator should go, according to a leading medical ethicist. |
The last time New York faced a crisis of this magnitude, Andrew Cuomo almost destroyed his career. |
Dr. Anthony Fauci wants to study hydroxychloroquine in a systematic way to determine if it is safe to take for the coronavirus - and if it actually works. President Trump for his part has been excitedly talking it up, belligerently demanding of skeptics, "What do you have to lose?" |
While the worsening coronavirus pandemic has shuttered most businesses nationwide to promote social distancing, grocery stores have remained open, pushing their employees, whether they like it or not, to the frontlines in a public health emergency. |
The Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Center is relocating today after a member of its team tested positive for COVID-19, according to an internal DHS document obtained by Yahoo News. |
As states and cities shut down all nonessential businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus, pot shops and gun stores are staying open in some places. Are they really essential? |
Earlier this month, Cuomo said that people were stealing face masks and other equipment needed to fight the coronavirus from area hospitals. On Monday, the New York governor dismissed a similar claim by the president. |
President Trump on Monday criticized attempts by Democrats in Congress to expand voting access for the presidential election in the fall, saying increased voter turnout would keep Republicans from getting elected. |
An FBI report about China's involvement with scientific research in the U.S. has raised alarms. While the report refers broadly to foreign researchers, all three cases cited involve Chinese nationals. |
One of the fallacies being circulated in this pandemic is the idea that public health principles conflict with economic growth. That might be true in the very short run while economies are stalled, but the long run shows exactly the opposite. |
The promise of coronavirus testing at local pharmacies, which President Trump implied was at hand on a large scale, remains unrealized. |
Abandoning his hope that the country could end its lockdown restrictions by Easter, which will be celebrated in two weeks, President Trump said on Sunday that intensive measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic would continue until the end of April. |
President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday and repeatedly bragged about the television ratings of his near-daily coronavirus press briefings. |
Congress approved the biggest stimulus bill in American history to counteract the economic impact of coronavirus. Is $2 trillion enough? |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharpened her criticism of President Trump's early dismissal of the coronavirus, saying the delay cost American lives. She criticized the president's initial response to the virus during a Sunday morning interview on CNN. |
In a world desperate for good news about the coronavirus, a dip in global carbon emissions caused by the outbreak's economic downturn might be seen as a silver lining. But climate scientists and policy experts aren't encouraged. |
Distilleries of all shapes and sizes are now joining the fight against COVID-19. |
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