Without adequate testing, universities "can't function at all," Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told members of the U.S. Senate.
New York is expanding its testing facilities to the thousands of people who participated in recent George Floyd protests, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.
Trevor Milton's newfound fortune is the latest vindication for the Utah-born college dropout, who founded Nikola at the age of 29 after talking to truckers in the North Dakota oil fields.
The U.S. needs to ramp up "equitable access" to testing for the coronavirus, the government's top testing official said in a briefing with reporters Thursday.
The government should be making efforts to test "medically and socially disadvantaged people" who are more likely to contract Covid-19, but still don't have access to testing, Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.
"I know a lot of the protesters are so annoyed they don't want to hear about Covid anymore," Cuomo said on Tuesday. "Covid is yesterday's news.' No, Covid is still a problem. Covid still kills also, so be mindful and respectful of that."
The CDC's new guidelines for returning to work during the coronavirus pandemic sparked some backlash and raised major concerns of what could be unbearable congestion and a surge in carbon emissions from vehicles.
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, speaks before the House Appropriations Committee.
What technologies are being used to trace and track Covid-19? How concerned are experts about the role of widespread protests in spreading the virus? And how will the dozens of vaccines in development start getting tested at large scale? Dr. Luciana Borio, former NSC Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness, joins Meg Tirrell for "Healthy Returns: The Path Forward"
The U.S. Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is holdings a hearing Thursday with top university officials about how to return students to college campuses safely in the fall.
An email sent to some online companies that sell Lego sets requested that marketing for some products be stopped and Lego itself paused advertising on social media.
China's aviation authority said Thursday that it would allow foreign airlines to increase flights between the country and other regions beginning June 8.