LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered more insight into his hospitalization for coronavirus, telling a British newspaper that he knew doctors were preparing for the worst. The 55-year-old Johnson, who spent three nights in intensive care during his week of treatment in a London hospital after falling ill with COVID-19, told The […]

HOKKAIDDO, JAPAN(VINnews) — A Japanese island has been struck by a second wave of coronavirus after having prematurely lifted its lockdown. Hokkaido, the second-largest island in Japan with 5.3 million people, had been viewed as a model in virus-management before they lifted the lockdown, but now experts hope to learn lessons from them about lifting […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government was slow to understand how much coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the acceleration of outbreaks across the nation, a top health official said Friday. Limited testing and delayed travel alerts for areas outside China contributed to the jump in U.S. cases starting in late February, […]

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California city official has been ousted after he suggested on social media that sick, old and homeless people should be left to meet their “natural course in nature” during the coronavirus pandemic. City council members in Antioch, a city of about 110,000 people 35 miles east of Oakland, voted […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of the first drug that appears to help some COVID-19 patients recover faster, a milestone in the global search for effective therapies against the coronavirus. The Food and Drug Administration said in a statement that Gilead Science’s intravenous drug would be specifically indicated for hospitalized […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As warmer weather tempted New Yorkers to come out of quarantine, police dispatched 1,000 officers this weekend to enforce social distancing and a ban on congregating in public spaces. Officers set out on foot, bicycles and cars to break up crowds and remind those enjoying the weather of public health restrictions […]

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — As her desperately sick daughter was being airlifted to a hospital, Jennifer Daly was thinking about all the parts of life that still lay ahead for her 12-year-old and whether she’d ever experience them: Would she get to fall in love? Would she get the chance to get married and have […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Lissette Serrano asked for a mask while she did her job cleaning toilets and picking up trash at a busy rest stop on a Connecticut parkway. She was told there were none. Soon after, Serrano came down with coronavirus symptoms and was told by a nurse to isolate for 14 days. […]

LONDON (VINnews) —When Suryakant “Suri” Nathwani returned from the hospital where doctors had refused to place him on a ventilator, the reserved 81-year-old grabbed his son’s hand and pleaded to be allowed to die at home. “He said, ‘Please promise me one thing: If I’m going to go, I’m going to go here. Do not […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The New York Post reports that an intelligence document leaked from the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance comprised of the five leading English-speaking countries, the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada claims that China lied to the world about human-to-human transmission of the virus, caused whistleblowers to disappear and refused to […]

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