WASHINGTON (AP) — Close to half a million people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 have gotten coverage through HealthCare.gov, the government reported Thursday. The numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services come as the Trump administration is expected to file written arguments in […]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 47-year-old Texas man was cited for disorderly conduct Thursday after he allegedly smacked the hand of a San Antonio-area official who was trying to persuade him to put on a face covering, officials said. The man’s lawyer disputes the claim. Terry Toller turned himself in to the Bexar County Sheriff’s […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that his government and the United Arab Emirates will soon announce a partnership in the fight against the coronavirus. The deal, if confirmed, would come despite recent warnings from UAE officials that Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank would harm […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases per day in the U.S. stood near an all-time high Thursday at more than 34,000, hovering close to the peak reached in late April during some of the darkest and deadliest days of the crisis. While greatly expanded testing probably accounts for some of the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The dramatic increase in COVID-19 positive cases in Israel over the past two weeks has not been accompanied by a corresponding spike in seriously ill and intubated patients. Corona departments reopened in hospitals in the wake of the increase stand nearly empty as the number of patients in serious condition remains stable. […]

NECHALIM, ISRAEL (VINNews) — A student at the Nechalim Yeshiva High School near Petach Tikva tested positive for coronavirus. 85 students were placed in isolation. This would not be newsworthy, since the same thing happened in many Israeli schools recently. However after testing it became apparent that none of the other students or their teachers […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (Newsmax) – The best way to build the body’s defenses against the coronavirus is to live a healthier lifestyle, world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall said in a new interview. Crandall, the author of “Fight Back: Beat the Coronavirus,” told Pat Robertson on “The 700 Club” that eating healthy, exercising, and not […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high infection rates to quarantine for 14 days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. “We now have to make sure the rates continue to drop,” Cuomo said. “We also have to make sure the virus doesn’t come on […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yemina leader MK Naftali Bennett sharply criticized the government decision to close down Chareidi neighborhoods in Tiberias as well as the Chareidi town of Elad in the wake of the increase in coronavirus infections. Bennett said that “they lost control of the pandemic and what do they do? Every time the government […]

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials tell Congress to brace for a second wave of coronavirus infections in the fall and winter of this year. Drs. Anthony Fauci of the NIH, Robert Redfield of the CDC, and FDA head Stephen Hahn agreed under questioning before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “It’s simple,” said Redfield. “We […]