New Yorkers who traveled to coronavirus countries urged to self-quarantine

Every New Yorker who has traveled and recently returned from China, Japan, Iran, Italy and South Korea have been told by the city’s mayor to self-quarantine for 14 days as a coronavirus precaution.  Mayor Bill de Blasio made the recommendation at a press conference on Thursday where he struck a more concerned tone than in … Read more

Elizabeth Warren declines to endorse Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders

JOE BIDEN Age on Inauguration Day 2021: 78 Entered race: April 25, 2019 Career: No current role. A University of Delaware and Syracuse Law graduate, he was first elected to Newcastle City Council in 1969, then won upset election to Senate in 1972, aged 29. Was talked out of quitting before being sworn in when … Read more

Facebook shuts down its Seattle headquarters after contractor tests positive for coronavirus 

Facebook has announced that a contractor working in its Seattle headquarters has tested positive for coronavirus, as the disease continues to spread through Washington State. The employee was last in the social media giant’s Stadium East office in Seattle on February 21 – around 12 miles from the nursing home which is connected to at … Read more

Amazon employee in company’s Seattle headquarters tests positive for coronavirus 

Amazon employee working in the company’s Seattle headquarters tests positive for the coronavirus – 12 miles away from nursing home where six infected patients have died Amazon employee in Seattle went home feeling sick on February 25 Employee subsequently tested positive for coronavirus, staff were told The infected worker is currently in quarantine, according to … Read more

Joe Biden WINS Virginia with Bernie Sanders safely taking Vermont 

JOE BIDEN Age on Inauguration Day 2021: 78 Entered race: April 25, 2019 Career: No current role. A University of Delaware and Syracuse Law graduate, he was first elected to Newcastle City Council in 1969, then won upset election to Senate in 1972, aged 29. Was talked out of quitting before being sworn in when … Read more

Pete Buttigieg endorses Joe Biden as moderates go all-out to stop Bernie Sanders

JOE BIDEN Age on Inauguration Day 2021: 78 Entered race: April 25, 2019 Career: No current role. A University of Delaware and Syracuse Law graduate, he was first elected to Newcastle City Council in 1969, then won upset election to Senate in 1972, aged 29. Was talked out of quitting before being sworn in when … Read more

Top virus expert warns coronavirus has reached ‘pandemic proportions’

The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. has now climbed to six as the top infectious disease official in the country warned the disease had likely reached ‘pandemic proportions’.  Health officials announced on Monday that four additional people had died in Washington state. Two other patients in that same area died over the weekend.  Five of the … Read more

Pete Buttigieg drops out of the race for president

Pete Buttigieg announced the suspension of his presidential campaign on Sunday night in South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg offered an uplifting message to his supporters as he announced the suspension of his presidential campaign on Sunday night in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana.   The impromptu event came hours after reports emerged that Buttigieg would … Read more

Man becomes second U.S. death from coronavirus as New York City confirms first case

A second person in the U.S. has died from coronavirus in Seattle as New York confirms its first positive coronavirus case on Sunday.  Health officials per the New York Times have said a man in his 70s with underlying health conditions died at the EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland on Sunday.  This is the same hospital where … Read more

Man, 70, becomes second U.S. death from coronavirus as New York City confirms first case

A second person in the U.S. has died from coronavirus in Seattle as New York confirms its first positive coronavirus case on Sunday.  Health officials per the New York Times have said a man in his 70s with underlying health conditions died at the EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland on Sunday.  This is the same hospital where … Read more