NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ezras Nashim, the organization founded by women to provide first-response treatment for women, has served the Borough Park community for 8 years. During the course of the coronavirus epidemic, volunteers geared up and visited numerous sick patients, providing many of them with oxygen which enabled them to stay at home and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a tiny slice of the population that represents a shockingly high proportion of Americans who have perished in the pandemic. The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled all events on his schedule Monday, marking the first time the city’s leader will not hold a briefing on the coronavirus during a weekday in more than 100 days. Freddi Goldstein, the mayor’s press secretary, posted on Twitter, saying he “woke up feeling […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is revoking its emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause deadly side effects. The agency said Monday that the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — “There is a grave concern of a spike in repeat strokes,” says Prof. David Tene, the director of the Stroke And Cognition Institute at Haifa’s Rambam hospital and the head of the Israeli Neurology Association. Prof. Tene says that numerous people refrained from going to hospital during the coronavirus epidemic despite having […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — How accurate are the coronavirus tests used in the U.S.? Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work, and experts at top medical centers say it is time to do the studies to find out. When the new virus began spreading, the Food and […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – At the start of Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the public against flouting guidelines set out by the Health Ministry, as the country witnesses a spike in coronavirus cases. Netanyahu said that there has been “no improvement” in the number of daily new infections, which […]

WASHINGTON (Newsmax) – Larry Kudlow, the director of the White House National Economic Council, conceded Sunday that it’s worrisome a relaxation of social distancing could lead to an increase of COVID-19 infections — and more economic pain. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Kudlow was pressed on continuing outbreaks in parts of […]

Move is latest in series of steps to nix Obama-era protections for LGBTQ people in areas such as military, housing, education

NEW YORK (VINnews) – New York state’s health commissioner says overnight summer camps will not be allowed to operate over coronavirus concerns. Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said Friday that it’s too difficult to manage the risks in overnight camps and maintain practices like social distancing and mask wearing. The state had previously decided that […]