WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation’s economy, adding a dose of caution to increasingly optimistic projections from the White House. “We have to have something in place that is […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign. The asylum-seeker from El Salvador and others had resorted to tearing their T-shirts into face coverings after a woman in their unit tested positive for COVID-19. But the guards would not […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — In an outrageous display of insensitivity, police Tuesday broke into an apartment in Bnei Brak where singers Roli and Yoeli Dickman were holding live prayers via loudspeaker and confiscated equipment. The two singers were making a live Youtube stream of prayers for Chol Hamoed to enable neighbors and people worldwide to […]

LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — The following letter signed by prominent Lakewood poskim was sent out in light of the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic: 3rd day of Chol Hamoed 5780 We are living in troubled times, faced with the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic in our country and throughout the world. To our sorrow, our communities have seen […]

NIR ETZION (VINnews) — While the rest of Israel continues to take extreme precautions against the coronavirus, with facemasks now obligatory for all residents in the streets and a total lockdown on movements for the entire seventh day of Pesach and the Mimouna celebrations afterwards, some places are isles of tranquility. One such place is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are dusting off some decades-old vaccines against other germs to see if they could provide a little stopgap protection against COVID-19 until a more precise shot arrives. It may sound odd: Vaccines are designed to target a specific disease. But vaccines made using live strains of bacteria or viruses seem to […]

UNITED STATES (AP) — Democratic governors in the Northeast and along the West Coast on Monday announced separate state compacts to coordinate one of their biggest challenges in the weeks to come: How to begin reopening society amid the coronavirus pandemic. The governors made separate announcements just hours after President Donald Trump said on Twitter […]

BRAZIL (AP) – Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of a malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested. Chloroquine and a newer, similar drug called hydroxychloroquine, have been pushed by President Donald Trump after […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they’d been started earlier, and when they’re eased new cases are certain to arise, said the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, seeming to draw the ire of President Donald Trump. Trump, who has been […]

VLADIVOSTOCK, RUSSIA (VINnews) — Chaim Goldberg, who was reputedly the world’s oldest Jewish war veteran, passed away at the age of 106 in Vladivostock, Eastern Russia. Goldberg was a World War Two veteran who had driven a tank in a Russian armored brigade and fought the Nazis. Goldberg had been sick in recent months and […]