NEW YORK (AP) — After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents. Neither the federal government nor […]

ATLANTA (JTA) — The road to reopening for houses of worship has been paved in a handful of states, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to kill more than 1,500 Americans a day. But synagogues in the Republican-led states that are relaxing some restrictions — including Georgia, Texas and South Carolina — appear unlikely to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday. A state survey of around 3,000 people found that 13.9% had antibodies suggesting they had been exposed to the virus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his daily news […]

BOSTON (AP) — The oldest brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Donald Reed Herring, has died from the coronavirus, the Massachusetts senator said Thursday. The former Democratic presidential candidate said her brother died Tuesday evening. He spent his career in the military after joining the U.S. Air Force at the age of 19 and was “charming […]

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s medicines regulator on Thursday warned countries that malaria drugs being used experimentally to treat the new coronavirus have potentially serious side effects, including seizures and heart problems. The European Medicines Agency said in a statement that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — two medicines embraced by U.S. President Donald Trump and […]

TIBERIAS (VINnews) — Coronavirus patients in Israel are either transferred to hospital (if they require treatment), left at home (if they have a place to stay in isolation) or if they are fortunate, transferred to designated hotels where they can be together in relative isolation. However the Chareidi patients at the Lavi hotel near Tiberias […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Reopening Florida’s theme parks, among the world’s most visited attractions and one of the state’s biggest economic engines, could be a long process fraught with logistical and public health considerations, an industry executive told a task force charged with reopening the state for business. “We are obviously thinking a lot about […]

FORT LEE, NJ (JTA) – Claiming Jews are responsible for the coronavirus, a New York City man has been charged with bias intimidation and harassment f0llowing two confrontations with a Jewish man at a Dunkin’ Donuts in New Jersey. Afrim Haxhaj, 30, of Queens, told the Jewish man at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Fort Lee […]

OXFORD, ENGLAND (VINnews) — As COVID-19 continues to cause relentless infections and death worldwide, the race to develop an effective vaccine against the virus has gathered pace in recent days. In Oxford, England, a clinical trial of an experimental vaccine will begin for the first time on humans. The trial is the result of a […]

BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Southeast Asian counterparts on Thursday that China is taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to push its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea. Pompeo made the accusation in a meeting via video to discuss the outbreak with the foreign […]

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