Dikembe Mutombo is helping the CDC with a PSA on … Having spent 18 years in the NBA and standing at 7 feet, 2 inches, former basketball star Dikembe Mutombo is highly recognizable. But he perhaps is just as well known for his humanitarian work away from the court. Now Mutombo has teamed up with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help spread […]
Dr. Fauci: U.S. still in the first wave, seasonal … During the 1918 pandemic, the number of cases plummeted before exploding during the colder months later in the year.
Experts predicted a coronavirus pandemic years ago. … In 2017, a team of experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security published a scenario as part of a training exercise that they believed could happen in the not-so-distant future.
Dr. Anthony Fauci describes his ‘very different’ … (CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci gave CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta some insight into his “very different” relationships with each of the presidents he’s served under as the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, has worked as a key […]
Ebola outbreak enters ‘truly frightening phase’ as … The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo made the long-feared jump across borders with three cases confirmed Wednesday in Uganda, including the death of a 5-year-old boy who had the virus. The World Health Organization and Ugandan health authorities said Tuesday the Congolese boy had traveled from Congo on Sunday, entered Uganda with his family […]
Who are the superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy … As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins. Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished.
AP-NORC poll: Many in US won’t return to gym or dining … WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of the country remains unlikely to venture out to bars, restaurants, theaters or gyms anytime soon, despite state and local officials across the country increasingly allowing businesses to reopen, according to a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That hesitancy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak could muffle […]
Trump vs Fauci: President’s gut sense collides with … WASHINGTON (AP) — In a clash of gut instinct versus science, President Donald Trump and the government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, publicly sparred over whether a malaria drug would work to treat people with coronavirus disease. Trump clung to his feeling that a malaria drug widely available could be the answer-in-waiting to […]
Pence tries to project calm as virus response coordinator Vice President Mike Pence moved Thursday to project calm in the role of chief coordinator of the government’s response to the new coronovirus, as the Trump administration rushed to contain mounting public concerns and steep stock market declines.
Ebola outbreak in Congo hits record for confirmed … The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a grim milestone, with 27 new cases confirmed in a single day – a record for the current outbreak. The outbreak, which is the second deadliest in history, has proven difficult to bring under control because of community mistrust and violent attacks on health […]
Top administration officials said last year threat … Two top administration officials last year listed the threat of a pandemic as an issue that greatly worried them, undercutting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the coronavirus pandemic was an unforeseen problem.
The timetable for a coronavirus vaccine is 18 months. … Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it’s a blink. That’s the long end of the Trump administration’s time window for developing a coronavirus vaccine, and some leaders in the field say this is too fast — and could come at the expense of safety.