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Apr 04, 2020
Trump repeated a favorite refrain of some conservatives, who have said that the coronavirus "cure"—that is, a nationwide shutdown—cannot be worse than the disease itself.
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Apr 04, 2020
Just a little over a month after saying there was no need for the community at large to wear masks in public, the CDC has changed its mind, recommending that all Americans should wear some sort of face covering when venturing outside.
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Apr 04, 2020
Just a little over a month after saying there was no need for the community at large to wear masks in public, the CDC has changed its mind, recommending that all Americans should wear some sort of face covering when venturing outside.
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Apr 04, 2020
Iran is experiencing on of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the world. Will the instability cause the country's leaders to lash out against America?
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Apr 04, 2020
It's Guy Cecil's job to criticize President Trump, but that's become a much more complicated job than it was a month ago thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Apr 03, 2020
President Trump said Friday that despite new CDC guidance recommending that American citizens wear masks or facial coverings to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, "I don't think that I'm going to be doing it."
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Apr 03, 2020
The nation could begin to see food shortages for some products if the people working on the supply chain lack personal protective equipment, warns an internal Trump administration document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Apr 03, 2020
The nation could begin to see food shortages for some products if the people working on the supply chain lack personal protective equipment, warns an internal Trump administration document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Apr 03, 2020
Now comes Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, a no-nonsense logistician plucked from the Pentagon's Joint Staff to take charge of the procurement and distribution of urgently needed medical equipment.
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Apr 03, 2020
According to regional newspaper LaVanguardia and other sources, a document circulated by the health department of Catalonia — the northeast region of Spain that has Barcelona as its capital — recommends that emergency teams and health care workers stop using ventilators for patients older than 80, and further recommends that extremely ill victims of COVID-19 be allowed to die at home rather than being taken to the hospital.
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Apr 03, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting all Americans, but it is hitting the poor the hardest, in part because those workers simply can't afford to adhere to social distancing restrictions if it means going without a paycheck.
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Apr 03, 2020
Rep. Adam Schiff's proposal for a 9/11-style commission to study the nation's response to the coronavirus outbreak "is not an exercise in casting blame or scoring political points, but something that the American people should rightly expect from their government as an exercise in accountability," he said.
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Apr 03, 2020
Two Army generals took critical actions early to stop the spread of the coronavirus in Asia and Europe from spreading to military bases.
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Apr 03, 2020
Two Army generals took critical actions early to stop the spread of the coronavirus in Asia and Europe from spreading to military bases.
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Apr 03, 2020
It may be true that planning for the fall election will not defeat the coronavirus, but it is a way of responding to it.
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Apr 02, 2020
Louisiana is poised to become the next epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, White House officials said Thursday, citing new data that shows that 26 percent of the tests for COVID-19 in that state in recent days have come back positive.
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Apr 02, 2020
In recents weeks, an intense amount of intention has been placed on data about of coronavirus cases and deaths. Are these numbers accurate enough to be building public policy on?
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Apr 02, 2020
Last Saturday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan closed the state's beaches, leaving the state's 7,719 miles of shoreline to piping plovers and sand crabs.
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Apr 02, 2020
The first reported cases came from China in December, eventually spreading to nearly every other country on earth over the ensuing three months.
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Apr 02, 2020
As the worsening coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the country, millions of Americans living with diabetes face heightened risks from COVID-19.
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Apr 02, 2020
The day after boasting that gasoline prices could fall to under $1 a gallon, President Trump said he had arranged a deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia that would lead to substantially higher oil prices.
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Apr 02, 2020
"It's crazy," J-L Cauvin said during an interview on the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast. "It's like eight years of a career shot into your vein in 72 hours."
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Apr 02, 2020
To see how pervasive COVID-19 has become — more than 171 countries currently have at least one positive patient — we are tracking active cases on a 3D map.
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Apr 02, 2020
OS ANGELES — The numbers have been devastating. More than 213,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases across the United States, with a staggering 83,000 in New York alone. A death toll — more than 4,700 at last count — that has already surpassed 9/11's. And grim new estimates from the Trump administration that predict the deadly pathogen could eventually kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans — assuming the U.S. does everything right.
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Apr 02, 2020
Long before the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, and then soon spread to nearly every country on Earth, a conference in 2018 offered proof that epidemiologists at the CDC and other institutions were aware that a new pandemic was poised to strike.
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Apr 01, 2020
President Trump shied away Wednesday from issuing domestic travel restrictions or a national lockdown to try and beat back the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic that, in a best case scenario, is expected to kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans.
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Apr 01, 2020
A New York City emergency room physician compares her experience fighting COVID-19 to that of post-hurricane relief efforts as the city continues to deal with waves of patients.
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Apr 01, 2020
When Ronnie Kresel went in for his most recent checkup following chemotherapy on March 21, it wasn't anything like the ones he'd had before. Upon his arrival at the Southhampton Stony Brook Hospital in Long Island, N.Y., a doctor met Kresel in a hazmat suit in a large tent outside the facility, where he was asked "a series of rapid-fire questions" and then sent to a negative-pressure room, which prevents cross-contamination, for his visit.
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Apr 01, 2020
Worldwide efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus have caused a massive drop in global emissions. Does the pandemic present an opportunity to accelerate the fight against climate change?
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Apr 01, 2020
With the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surging nationwide and health officials warning that, even in a best-case scenario, deaths from the disease could top 100,000 in the U.S., the government is reviewing its guidance on the use of face masks by the general population.
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Apr 01, 2020
The letter amounts to a desperate appeal to his chain of command to get most of his sailors off the ship, where the virus is spreading out of control, and into individual quarantine lodgings that are based on federal guidelines.
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Apr 01, 2020
While the Washington State Department of Health had prepared a plan for the arrival of the virus in January, it assumed it still had weeks before the disease would reach the U.S. "In three days, the plan was trashed. We went through every step," Marcia Goldoft, a clinical epidemiologist with the Washington State DOH, told Yahoo News. "I don't think anyone involved has ever seen anything go this fast."
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Apr 01, 2020
The latest news and information on the pandemic from Yahoo News reporters in the United States and around the world.
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Apr 01, 2020
Yahoo News is a member of the One Free Press Coalition and is publishing the group's latest "10 Most Urgent" list below to highlight the increasingly dangerous climate for journalism and free expression around the world in an effort to roll back repressive anti-press policies.
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Mar 31, 2020
Nearly a quarter million people in the United States could die as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Trump administration officials said Tuesday.
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Mar 31, 2020
Nearly a quarter million people in the United States could die as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Trump administration officials said Tuesday.
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Mar 31, 2020
As cases of COVID-19 in New York City continue to climb, makeshift emergency field hospitals are popping up and transforming some of the city's most iconic sites.
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Mar 31, 2020
Congressional Republicans have resisted allocating the billions of dollars experts say are necessary to implement nationwide mail-in voting ahead of the presidential election.
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Mar 31, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has forced restaurants across the country to close or dramatically limit their business. Will the industry survive the outbreak?
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Mar 31, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has forced restaurants across the country to close or dramatically limit their business. Will the industry survive the outbreak?
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Mar 31, 2020
The New York Times reported this week that almost a dozen Liberty University students have come down with COVID-19 symptoms since the school reopened last week. But Liberty University officials have since pushed back on these claims, calling the Times story "fake news". Now, students are choosing sides in who they believe is telling the truth.
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Mar 31, 2020
Some conservative commentators have begun questioning the reported death tolls and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19.
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Mar 31, 2020
As countries around the world look for ways to track coronavirus infections using people's personal smartphones, privacy experts and technologists warn the U.S. government faces an uphill battle to put such surveillance into practice.
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Mar 31, 2020
Many hospitals are putting together triage committees made up of doctors and ethicists who can help individual frontline doctors and nurses make on-the-spot decisions about where a needed ventilator should go, according to a leading medical ethicist.
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Mar 31, 2020
The last time New York faced a crisis of this magnitude, Andrew Cuomo almost destroyed his career.
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Mar 31, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci wants to study hydroxychloroquine in a systematic way to determine if it is safe to take for the coronavirus — and if it actually works. President Trump for his part has been excitedly talking it up, belligerently demanding of skeptics, "What do you have to lose?"
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Mar 31, 2020
While the worsening coronavirus pandemic has shuttered most businesses nationwide to promote social distancing, grocery stores have remained open, pushing their employees, whether they like it or not, to the front lines in a public health emergency.
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Mar 31, 2020
While the worsening coronavirus pandemic has shuttered most businesses nationwide to promote social distancing, grocery stores have remained open, pushing their employees, whether they like it or not, to the frontlines in a public health emergency.
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Mar 30, 2020
The Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Center is relocating today after a member of its team tested positive for COVID-19, according to an internal DHS document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Mar 30, 2020
As states and cities shut down all nonessential businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus, pot shops and gun stores are staying open in some places. Are they really essential?
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Mar 30, 2020
Earlier this month, Cuomo said that people were stealing face masks and other equipment needed to fight the coronavirus from area hospitals. On Monday, the New York governor dismissed a similar claim by the president.
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Mar 30, 2020
President Trump on Monday criticized attempts by Democrats in Congress to expand voting access for the presidential election in the fall, saying increased voter turnout would keep Republicans from getting elected.
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Mar 30, 2020
An FBI report about China's involvement with scientific research in the U.S. has raised alarms. While the report refers broadly to foreign researchers, all three cases cited involve Chinese nationals.
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Mar 30, 2020
One of the fallacies being circulated in this pandemic is the idea that public health principles conflict with economic growth. That might be true in the very short run while economies are stalled, but the long run shows exactly the opposite.
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Mar 30, 2020
The promise of coronavirus testing at local pharmacies, which President Trump implied was at hand on a large scale, remains unrealized.
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Mar 29, 2020
Abandoning his hope that the country could end its lockdown restrictions by Easter, which will be celebrated in two weeks, President Trump said on Sunday that intensive measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic would continue until the end of April.
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Mar 29, 2020
President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday and repeatedly bragged about the television ratings of his near-daily coronavirus press briefings.
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Mar 29, 2020
Congress approved the biggest stimulus bill in American history to counteract the economic impact of coronavirus. Is $2 trillion enough?
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Mar 29, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharpened her criticism of President Trump's early dismissal of the coronavirus, saying the delay cost American lives. She criticized the president's initial response to the virus during a Sunday morning interview on CNN.
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Mar 28, 2020
In a world desperate for good news about the coronavirus, a dip in global carbon emissions caused by the outbreak's economic downturn might be seen as a silver lining. But climate scientists and policy experts aren't encouraged.
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Mar 28, 2020
Distilleries of all shapes and sizes are now joining the fight against Covid-19, from local craft ones like Steven's to large manufacturers like Woodford Reserve.
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Mar 28, 2020
Chicago health care providers have been preparing since January for a potential surge of patients due to the increasingly wide spread of COVID-19.
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Mar 27, 2020
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, says that Trump administration officials declined an offer of early Congressional funding assistance that he and other senators made during a meeting to discuss the coronavirus on Feb. 5.
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Mar 27, 2020
President Trump used his daily coronavirus to attack Democratic governors who in his estimation had shown insufficient gratitude for his administration's response to the pandemic.
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Mar 27, 2020
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy says that it will be difficult for states to switch to mail-in voting in time for the presidential election in November.
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Mar 27, 2020
Trump ends vacillating and uses government powers to force GM to make ventilators
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Mar 27, 2020
As the need for physicians has increased, many qualified medical school seniors each year — and this year is no exception — fail to acquire a residency position in a hospital, a requirement for beginning a practice.
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Mar 27, 2020
An email sent by the Trump campaign this week cited a news story claiming that the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has experienced a 300 percent increase in call volume, but representatives for the organizations responsible for handling those calls say that figure is incorrect.
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Mar 27, 2020
Hours after a Fox News interview in which he downplayed a national shortage of hospital ventilators to treat patients infected with the coronavirus, President Trump fired off a number of tweets Friday blaming General Motors and its CEO, Mary Barra, for not manufacturing more of them.
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Mar 27, 2020
Pregnant women across the United States are wondering how COVID-19 could affect them and their babies. They also want to know how health professionals are making sure they stay safe and healthy. To get some answers, Yahoo News spoke to Dr. Lance Bruck, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at Jersey City Medical Center, in New Jersey.
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Mar 27, 2020
Experts say technological solutions to track the spread of coronavirus could help contain the outbreak, but the public would have to give up some of its privacy. Is it worth the trade off?
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Mar 27, 2020
A California couple waiting to adopt a child in India was days away from completion when the country's coronavirus lockdown brought the process to a halt.
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Mar 27, 2020
A large majority of Americans disagree with President Trump that the nation's battle against the coronavirus is winding down and that normal economic activity should resume sooner rather than later, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
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Mar 27, 2020
Caught between a mayor's indecision and a president's inattention, the nation's largest city was left dangerously exposed to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mar 26, 2020
Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hankins says his party might be left off of many ballots unless petitioning requirements are relaxed.
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Mar 26, 2020
The pandemic has left multiple members of Congress in quarantine and led to restrictions on movement that could prevent the House from voting.
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Mar 26, 2020
David Plouffe, who oversaw former President Barack Obama's storied 2008 bid for the White House, says he has an "overarching concern" about Joe Biden's campaign strategy against a media-savvy incumbent with a large financial advantage.
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Mar 26, 2020
Despite warnings from experts that existing evidence of hydroxychloroquine's effect on coronavirus symptoms is limited and largely anecdotal, President Trump's promotion of the prospective treatment has prompted stockpiling and fatally misinformed attempts to self-medicate.
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Mar 25, 2020
Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.'s decision to reopen the school this week was met with wide-ranging reactions. While many critics feel Falwell is endangering the lives of students and faculty, others think it was the right decision.
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Mar 25, 2020
President Trump's boast about the U.S. testing more people for coronavirus than any other country is likely untrue, and certainly misleading.
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Mar 25, 2020
Voting reforms that would make it much easier to cast ballots by mail in the fall presidential election were left out of the $2 trillion rescue package that was unveiled Wednesday.
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Mar 25, 2020
Millions of Britons have defied government advice about social distancing to congregate on beaches and in parks, ignoring stark warnings that the pandemic devastating Italy and Spain could cross the English Channel.
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Mar 25, 2020
The major U.S. airlines have asked for upwards of $50 billion from Congress to save their industry amid the coronavirus pandemic. Should taxpayer money be used to rescue them?
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Mar 25, 2020
The White House is pushing to return things back to normal by Easter, but there is only so much the federal government can do amid the pandemic if local leaders maintain shutdowns.
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Mar 25, 2020
TUNE IN LIVE: Yahoo Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel will answer readers' questions about the coronavirus here on Thursday, March 26, at 5 p.m. ET
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Mar 25, 2020
While the general public is being strongly advised to stay indoors, doctors, nurses and other health care providers can't work from home. They are facing a new reality of their own, as hospitals and clinics prepare for an imminent influx of coronavirus patients.
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Mar 25, 2020
The spread of the coronavirus has sent a large number of federal workers home to telework, in some cases limiting government services, raising concerns that some of the nation's highly sensitive national security work, which can often only be done in secure facilities, could suffer.
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Mar 25, 2020
Some conservatives are urging Americans to ignore the advice of public health experts and get back to work in order to avoid an extended market downturn.
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Mar 24, 2020
Health experts are concerned about the possibility of devastating coronavirus outbreaks inside America's jails and prisons. Are drastic steps needed to prevent the virus from wreaking havoc behind bars?
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Mar 24, 2020
Three sailors aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt tested positive for coronavirus after coming down with symptoms of COVID-19 and have been evacuated from the ship.
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Mar 24, 2020
President Trump has been reluctant to use the Cold War-era Defense Production Act, which allows the president to pressure or even force private industries to produce products deemed necessary for the nation's defense.
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Mar 24, 2020
The president told Fox News on Tuesday that he hopes to "have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter," which falls this year on April 12.
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Mar 24, 2020
For the past three days, President Trump has publicly embraced the view that the measures taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak should not come at the expense of the U.S. economy.
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Mar 24, 2020
Although the scale of the coronavirus outbreak, at least so far, is much lower in rural counties than in some big cities, they face distinctive challenges in coping with an epidemic of a life-threatening disease.
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Mar 24, 2020
As the coronavirus threat intensified in the U.S., Fox News viewers received different information than Americans who got their news from other sources. Ben Smith, the media critic at the New York Times, set out to understand why. His conclusion: Fox anchors consistently downplayed and even denied the existence of the virus.
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Mar 23, 2020
President Trump continued to downplay the exponential spread of the coronavirus in the United States on Monday, comparing the rising death toll to the number of Americans killed in car crashes and by the seasonal flu.
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Mar 23, 2020
Patrick, who is an American citizen, returned back to his current home in Beijing recently and per law is being quarantined in his apartment for 14 days since his arrival back to China. "Right now, [I'm] keeping my spirits up and enjoying it. I hope to be roaming outside freely and without a face mask very soon."
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Mar 23, 2020
A member of the White House press corps who has been in the briefing room several times with President Trump has come down with a suspected case of coronavirus.
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Mar 23, 2020
A member of the White House press corps who has been in the briefing room several times with President Trump has come down with a suspected case of coronavirus. White House Correspondents Association President Jon Karl announced the situation in an email to the group's membership on Monday afternoon.
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Mar 23, 2020
A former "Hamilton" star joins forces with the larger Broadway community to make protective equipment for health care workers and patients.
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