The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has forecast 233,000 COVID-19 deaths by the end of this month with up to 6,800 new fatalities in the last week of October alone. In a report on its website the CDC writes: ‘This week’s national ensemble forecast indicates an uncertain trend in new COVID-19 deaths reported over … Read more
Donald Trump said Sunday that he is cured of COVID-19 just over one week after diagnosis as he claims he is now ‘immune’ from the virus. ‘Once you recover, you’re immune,’ Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ in a phone interview. ‘Now you have a president that’s immune.’ Moments after the … Read more
Conservative activists have launched a cross-country bus tour in support of Amy Coney Barrett, who has been nominated by President Donald Trump to the US Supreme Court. Penny Nance and Jenny Beth Martin, of Concerned Women for America, attended the nomination announcement in the White House Rose Garden on September 26, which ended up being … Read more
A 13-year-old girl infected 11 out of 13 of her relatives with coronavirus while the family was staying together in a vacation home for three weeks, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report reveals. The girl was exposed to a ‘large outbreak’ of coronavirus while away from home in June 2020 but … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now admits that coronavirus does spread through airborne transmission, according to updated guidance on the agency’s website. It comes two weeks after CDC officials said their previous warning about airborne transmission was ‘in error,’ making Monday’s update the third time in a month the agency has flip-flopped … Read more
A Trump administration aide pressured Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts to alter its report on children’s coronavirus risks, emails obtained by Politico suggest. Paul Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods at McMaster University in Canada who was brought into the Trump administration by Michael Caputo, pressed the editor of … Read more
Adults CAN get the life-threatening inflammation condition linked to COVID-19 that has killed 20 US children, CDC report reveals – and at least two people over 18 have died of the Kawasaki-like disease Earlier this year, cases began appearing of a mysterious inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) linked to coronavirus exposure Since June 2020, at … Read more
At least two of Donald Trump‘s Secret Service detail are facing 14 days of isolation after traveling in a sealed car with the infected president during a motorcade stunt which caused ‘outrage’ among some of the agency’s 3,000 elite bodyguards. Doctors, the CDC and the state of Maryland say the agents will have to quarantine … Read more
Nearly 15% of US adults are uninsured: Two-thirds of under-30s and more than 80% of older adults who don’t have health care say they can’t afford it, CDC report finds A new CDC report found that 14.5% of adults between ages 18 and 64 were uninsured in 2019 – s one-third drop from 20.4% in … Read more
Over the last month, coronavirus cases among American 18- to 22-year-olds surged by 55 percent nationwide, with case rates more than doubling among college-age people in the Northeast and Midwest, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. As adolescents and young adults across the nation headed back to college last month, campuses … Read more