WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to Vice President Mike Pence has the coronavirus, marking the second person in the White House complex known to test positive this week. The latest positive test was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. On Thursday, White House […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have revoked U.S. authorization for masks made by more than 60 Chinese manufacturers after they failed to meet standards needed to protect health care workers. The Food and Drug Administration had allowed the imports based on testing data from the companies. Normally, the masks are tested and certified by […]

PARIS (JTA) – At least 1,300 members of France’s Jewish community have died of COVID-19, the country’s Jewish burial service said. The French chevra kadisha, the Jewish term for those who provide Jewish burial services, reported the figure this week after declining to disclose any numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic in France in […]

Its Jewish-Arab, Orthodox-secular rifts are all still there, but the country has thus far proved capable of transcending them, holding together to reduce the pandemic's ravages

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Professor Yehoshua (Shuki) Shemer, the director of the Asuta association which runs hospitals in different regions in Israel and a former director-general of the Health Ministry, explained in an interview with Maariv how the coronavirus could affect society, whether a vaccine or antibodies will be found effective against it and whether […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Sandy Jensen’s customer-service job at a Sam’s Club in Fullerton, California, normally involves checking member ID cards at the door and answering questions. But the coronavirus has turned her into a kind of store sheriff. Now she must confront shoppers who aren’t wearing masks, enforce social distancing measures such as one-way […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A new study finds no evidence of benefit from a malaria drug widely promoted as a treatment for coronavirus infection. Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers reported Thursday […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Many governors across the U.S. are disregarding or creatively interpreting White House guidelines in easing their states’ lockdowns and letting businesses reopen, an Associated Press analysis found. The AP determined that 17 states do not appear to meet one of the key benchmarks set by the White House for loosening up — […]

(THE CONVERSATION/AP/Rahel Mathews, Mississippi State University) My health conscious friends and colleagues tell me that they need an alternative to soda but plain water is too boring. They, like many people, are turning to sparkling water and flavored seltzer water. Carbonated waters are being promoted as the low-calorie or zero-calorie alternative to soda. In a […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The advent of an unknown, mysterious, earthshaking pandemic is such an unfathomable event that it has served as a fertile breeding ground for all sorts of conspiracy theorists and deniers. Some have blamed the virus on Chinese labs, some on Bill Gates who appears to some people to have almost limitless […]