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 Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyAs the global pandemic and a staggering economic crisis swells, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the controversial celebrity doctor, has been advising senior Trump administration officials on coronavirus-related matters. Oz has even caught Donald Trump's attention with the celebrity doctor's numerous appearances on the president's favorite TV channel, The Daily Beast has learned.
In the past couple of weeks, President Trump began more and more hearing about and watching Oz, now a Fox News regular, discuss hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that Trump aggressively touted as a coronavirus treatment, much to the dismay of various medical experts and scientists. Over these two weeks, the president had specifically made a point of telling aides that he was interested in what Oz had to say, and that he wished to speak to the much-maligned television personality, according to two people familiar with the president's requests. It is unclear if Trump has spoken on the phone with Oz lately, as he told aides that he wished to do so.
But Trump has told officials that it would be "a good idea" if they talked to Oz, one of the sources added. Top administration officials, including Trump's administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medi
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 The Trump administration said Sunday that it was "beginning to see the glimmers of progress" in the fight to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the United States and across the globe.
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 Governors in some of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic have had mixed reactions to President Trump's response to the public health crisis, but they all agree on one thing: they need more help.
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 WPA Pool/GettyBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to the hospital after testing positive for coronavirus and experiencing "persistent symptoms" for 10 days after getting his positive result.
A statement from his office said he was being admitted to the hospital for "tests" and said the move was a "precautionary step" that was taken "on the advice of his doctor." According to BBC News, one of Johnson's symptoms was a fever.
"The Prime Minister thanks NHS staff for all their incredible hard work and urges the public to continue to follow the Government's advice to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives," the statement, obtained by BBC News, read.
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 Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called for the nations of the world to put aside their differences and unite against a common "powerful and invisible enemy": the coronavirus pandemic.
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 Former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on Sunday the party may be forced to host a "virtual" nominating convention in August due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
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 The Pentagon mandated Sunday that everyone at Defense Department facilities cover their faces in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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 When it comes to the new House committee tasked with overseeing the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said he is looking to the future not the past.
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 The Navy captain removed from command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt last week after warning that action was needed to save the lives of his crew from a coronavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, according to The New York Times on Sunday.
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 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that if the coronavirus outbreak does not get "globally under control," it is likely to become a recurring problem.
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The former vice president sharply criticized the firing of Brett Crozier, who was removed after he spoke up in a leaked letter to his superiors on conditions aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
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Vice Admiral Jerome Adams called on the nine Republican governors who have not issued statewide stay-at-home orders to "do their part."
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Some Pentagon employees began receiving emails from their office administrators over the weekend to come to work Monday with at least one face covering to prevent the spread of coronavirus, an official who received one of the messages told CNN on Sunday.
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The Covid-19 pandemic is leading to "tsunami" of change in how people buy food.
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The new Labour leader says there will be a "reckoning" after the coronavirus crisis, where the wealthy will be asked to pay more.
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Melania Trump on Sunday tweeted her second message in 48 hours about the importance of taking seriously federal guidelines for people to wear masks or face coverings as coronavirus continues to spread across the country.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday defended the recent removal of the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who warned that action was needed to save the lives of his crew from an outbreak of coronavirus, saying the move is an example of how "we hold leaders accountable for their actions."
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Former Vice President Joe Biden said the Democratic National Convention, which has already been pushed back from July to August, may have to go virtual if the coronavirus continues as a public health threat into the summer.
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 Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastPARIS—"I wasn't able to sleep last night," began acclaimed French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani's "Journal du confinement" (lockdown diary) in the French daily Le Monde. "From my bedroom window I watch the dawn break over the hills. The grass covered in frost, the first buds appearing on the branches of the trees..."
Several days before President Emmanuel Macron announced a nationwide lockdown on March 16 in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the prize-winning author of the international bestseller Chanson Douce (Lullaby) left Paris and holed up in her country house with her family. From there, she kept busy writing, entertaining her children and, like many of us in France, reflecting on the sudden, disorienting end to normal life.
"Everything has stopped," she wrote. "Like a game of musical chairs. The record goes silent, you have to sit, to no longer move… suddenly the carousel stops turning."
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 New York state saw its first drop in daily coronavirus deaths, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday -- as U.S. Northern Command announced it would deploy a combined total of 1,000 Air Force and Navy medical providers to the New York City area to support relief efforts in the next three days.
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 In that way he has of saying out loud what many believe but won't admit, Donald Trump made no pretense of his fear of vote by mail, describing why Republicans opposed mandated vote by mail in earlier versions of the $2 trillion emergency relief bill, despite the public health issues in sending voters to the polls in the midst of a pandemic:
"They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again, they had things in there about election days, and what you do… and it was totally crazy."
To make this a perfect Trump moment, he himself has requested an absentee ballot for the Republican presidential primary in Florida.
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 President Trump Saturday dismissed a critical tweet from Joe Biden, saying the former vice president couldn't have authored it because "he doesn't write."
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 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer railed against President Trump's choice to nominate a White House lawyer to oversee the massive coronavirus stimulus program as a failure and re-upped up calls for more congressional oversight.
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 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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President Trump again characterized the federal stockpile as "backup" and put the onus on states to secure ventilators.
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 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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There are about two dozen medical professionals in Congress, including 17 doctors, plus a former health secretary. Some are trying to shape the coronavirus response.
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Wisconsin is set to hold in-person voting next week after the state's legislature on Saturday declined to take up an effort delaying the presidential primary due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The tabloid slapped a mask on Trump for saying he likely won't follow CDC guidelines about wearing them in public amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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The public-health crisis has intensified a long-running partisan fight over ballot access, now an escalating battle in multiple states.
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President Donald Trump made yet another series of inaccurate or misleading claims at a coronavirus briefing on Friday.
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