President Donald Trump on Wednesday raged about the coverage of CDC Director Robert Redfield’s interview with The Washington Post, where the medical expert warned about the dangers of a second wave of the coronavirus. Trump brought Redfield to the White House podium to repudiate the interview only for the CDC director to confirm the newspaper correctly … Read more
President Donald Trump hit out at Dr Anthony Fauci Sunday night by retweeting the #FireFauci hashtag and claimed that he banned flights from China ‘long before people spoke up’ just hours after the nation’s top immunologist said his recommendation for a US shut down in February was ignored. Trump retweeted a post from former congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine who … Read more
The CDC has warned that the only way the US can return to normal life is through aggressive contact tracing – but it will need an ‘army of healthcare workers’ to be able to do this. CDC Director Robert Redfield said the health agency is working on a plan for the nation to come out … Read more
The CDC has extended its ‘no sail’ order for the cruise industry for a further 100 days, leaving 100 ships and 80,000 crew members stranded off the US coast. At least 20 of these ships have known or suspected cases of coronavirus on-board, the agency said. Cruise liners are coming under pressure to make repatriation … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed highly unusual guidance from its website informing doctors on how to prescribe the anti-malaria drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat coronavirus. The medications, chloroquine and its analog hydroxychlorquine, are also used to threat arthritis and the autoimmune disorder lupus. Initially, the CDC webpage had … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will advise all Americans to wear cloth masks or other face coverings if they go out in public but President Donald Trump said the new guidelines will not be mandatory. But the policy marks a profound change in messaging as both the CDC and World Health Organization previously … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rolled a test that would determine whether or not someone has been infected with coronavirus. This type of test, which is known as a serology test, looks for antibodies against the new virus in the blood. Health officials say the test could help scientists understand how … Read more
Eiza Gonzalez wears a bandanna over her face as she stocks up at the grocery store By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 03:09 BST, 7 April 2020 | Updated: 03:11 BST, 7 April 2020 She was ‘heartbroken’ after losing out on the role of Catwoman in the upcoming Batman film. Eiza González played a different … Read more
President Trump announced at his Friday press briefing that the Centers for Disease Control was now recommending that Americans wear non-medical cloth masks – but pressed that it wasn’t a mandate. ‘So it’s voluntary, you don’t have to be doing it,’ the president said from the briefing room podium. ‘This is voluntary, I don’t think I’m … Read more
As many as 25 percent of people with coronavirus are asymptomatic, according to CDC director Dr Robert Redfield (pictured at the White House, March 22) The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says as many as one in four coronavirus patients in the US are asymptomatic. Dr Robert Redfield told NPR … Read more