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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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Mar 23, 2020
A lack of protective equipment combined with a lack of testing for the coronavirus is putting a huge strain on those first responders who are on the frontlines of helping pick up sick patients from their homes or off the street.
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Mar 23, 2020
Native New Yorker Giselle Abinader thought she'd be spending weekends traveling around Europe while studying abroad in Barcelona for the year. But the coronavirus pandemic has upended her plans because she's now quarantined to her flat. In a video diary, she shares with Yahoo News her firsthand account of what it's like under lockdown in the country with the third most coronavirus fatalities.
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Mar 23, 2020
Native New Yorker Giselle Abinader thought she'd be spending weekends traveling around Europe while studying abroad in Barcelona for the year. But the coronavirus pandemic has upended her plans because she's now quarantined to her flat. In a video diary, she shares with Yahoo News her firsthand account of what it's like under lockdown in the country with the third most coronavirus fatalities.
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Mar 23, 2020
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday he is again raising the protection condition on the Pentagon, which will further restrict access to one of the world's largest office buildings. The Pentagon will now be at Level C, the second highest of the military's five health protection conditions.
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Mar 23, 2020
President Trump again touted the promise of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine on Monday for use treating COVID-19, retweeting a story that appeared in the New York Post.
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Mar 23, 2020
Several senators have come under scrutiny for selling stock just before the economy began to suffer. Will the transactions cost them?
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Mar 23, 2020
The president has promoted commentary from his supporters who are ready to relax recommended guidelines to slow the virus's spread in an attempt to boost the economy.
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Mar 23, 2020
The president has promoted commentary from his supporters who are ready to relax recommended guidelines to slow the virus's spread in an attempt to boost the economy.
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Mar 23, 2020
Former Vice President and Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden made his first video address after four days of cable news silence to address the coronavirus pandemic from his family home in Wilmington, Del.
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Mar 23, 2020
A Pittsburgh-based hospital system faces growing dissension from hundreds of its doctors over its controversial decision to continue routine clinic visits and certain elective surgeries in the face of COVID-19.
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Mar 23, 2020
One of the nation's top doctors in the fight against coronavirus expressed frustration and some praise for his experience working with the White House in an interview with Science magazine.
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Mar 22, 2020
President Trump reassured undocumented immigrants that they could receive testing for the coronavirus without risking enforcement action by ICE.
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Mar 22, 2020
What does an expert in infectious disease get asked about coronavirus, and what does she answer?
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Mar 22, 2020
What does an expert in infectious disease get asked about coronavirus, and what does she answer?
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Mar 22, 2020
A day after he was unable to deliver specifics at a White House briefing, FEMA Director Pete Gaynor again had no answers during multiple Sunday morning interviews.
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Mar 22, 2020
A day after he was unable to deliver specifics at a White House briefing, FEMA Director Peter Gaynor again had no answers during multiple Sunday morning interviews.
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Mar 21, 2020
Like all Americans, President Trump can't wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to be over. And while his administration struggles to get supplies and equipment out to hospitals facing critical shortages, he holds out hope that the disease can be eradicated with one stroke by a medical coup.
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Mar 21, 2020
As a reporter and editor at Yahoo News who has written often about the impact the growing coronavirus outbreak is having on American life, my assignment to investigate how education was being impacted took me to a not-so-exotic location — my own kitchen table.
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Mar 21, 2020
As a reporter and editor at Yahoo News who has written often about the impact the growing coronavirus outbreak is having on American life, my assignment to investigate how education was being impacted took me to a not-so-exotic location — my own kitchen table.
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Mar 21, 2020
White supremacists discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus via "saliva," a "spray bottle" or "laced items," according to a weekly intelligence brief distributed by a federal law enforcement division on Feb. 17.
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Mar 21, 2020
President Trump and other conservatives have begun referring to coronavirus as the "Chinese virus," saying they want to ensure that China's government is held accountable. The change in word choice has raised accusations of racism.
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Mar 21, 2020
In an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic, governors in Connecticut, Illinois, and New York announced executive orders on Friday requiring all nonessential workers to stay home as much as possible — a day after California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a similar order requiring all nonessential workers to stay home. In total, about 75 million Americans will be affected.
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Mar 21, 2020
In approximately 10 months, a new presidential administration will take shape. And how it does so could have great consequences in the years to come. That's why there's reason to cheer a bill that could ensure that the transition is conducted with the proper ethical strictures in place — the kinds of strictures that did not exist in 2016.
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Mar 20, 2020
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to create more than 10,000 ICU-type hospital rooms in hotels, dormitories and other available buildings in New York City over the next few weeks, its commander said Friday.
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Mar 20, 2020
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to create more than 10,000 ICU-type hospital rooms in hotels, dormitories and other available buildings in New York City over the next few weeks, its commander said Friday.
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Mar 20, 2020
The pews will be empty this Sunday at First Baptist Dallas, the megachurch whose pastor, Robert Jeffress, is one of President Trump's most ardent supporters and a frequent guest on Fox News.
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Mar 20, 2020
President Trump announced Friday that standardized testing requirements at public K-12 schools will be suspended as a result of the worsening coronavirus outbreak that has shuttered schools in almost every state.
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Mar 20, 2020
The spread of the coronavirus will force U.S. European Command to cut back on its exercises in the coming months by up to 65 percent, but the command's top general said the reductions in training would only affect the "fine-tuning" aspects of his units' combat readiness.
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Mar 20, 2020
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a 49-year-old Democrat from Brooklyn, just might be the next speaker of the House. In the meantime, however, there's a pandemic to deal with.
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Mar 20, 2020
President Trump and the leading scientific expert on infectious diseases on his coronavirus task force offered starkly different views Friday about whether Americans should feel hopeful that the anti-malarial drug chloroquine could be used to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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Mar 20, 2020
As one of President Trump's top scientific advisers, Kelvin Droegemeier is a key figure in the fight to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mar 20, 2020
Ron Klain, who in 2014 ran the Obama administration's response to that year's Ebola outbreak, told Yahoo News that if more Americans made simple adjustments such as ordering groceries instead of going to the store to shop, it could make a substantial difference in containing the coronavirus.
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Mar 20, 2020
The corona pandemic has forced religions centered on community to rethink the way they practice their faith and the role spiritual leaders play in daily life.
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Mar 20, 2020
President Trump said Friday the federal government has begun to use the Defense Production Act to direct U.S. companies to produce emergency supplies of protective masks for health workers dealing with coronavirus patients, but is not using it to procure ventilators. "We are using it … for certain things that we need," Trump said under questioning from reporters at the White House. "We have millions more masks that are coming," Trump said.
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Mar 20, 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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Mar 20, 2020
Ron Klain, who was named as the Obama administration's Ebola response coordinator, said he expects that the shortage of tests in the United States will be one of the most enduring legacies of the crisis.
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Mar 20, 2020
A seeming lack of urgency marks the coronavirus in Spain, where cases began climbing three weeks ago, and where concepts like social distancing didn't enter the discussion until this week.
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Mar 19, 2020
The director of the Defense Health Agency said Thursday that while Defense Department labs can perform "tens of thousands" of tests per day for civilians, so far nobody has asked them to do so.
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Mar 19, 2020
Patel gave her advice about the best ways to keep families safe, how to maintain mental health under quarantine and what everyone can do to help address the crisis, among other topics.
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Mar 19, 2020
President Trump has taken pains over the past week to link the coronavirus outbreak to China, calling it the "Chinese virus" at daily briefings over objections that doing so unfairly stigmatizes an entire nation, and might encourage hostility toward Asian-Americans.
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Mar 19, 2020
"The reason they told me five days is probably because they're overwhelmed with more testing," said Dr. Bassem Khalil, an internist at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C. He started experiencing symptoms that matched the warning signs of COVID-19 last Saturday.
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Mar 19, 2020
Ron Klain, who served as President Barack Obama's "Ebola czar," says Americans need to prepare for a massive spike in coronavirus cases and deaths over the next few weeks.
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Mar 19, 2020
What does the American Red Cross do when it's in desperate need for blood? Pivot to Instagram. Over the past few weeks, the humanitarian organization has turned to multiple social media channels to recruit users who tend to skew younger to help fill their desperate need for donors during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mar 19, 2020
Despite dire warnings about the health risks of large crowds, people all over the country are still gathering in groups. What's causing so many Americans to ignore public health protocols?
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Mar 19, 2020
President Trump said he supports prohibiting corporations that receive federal bailout money from buying back shares of their own stock.
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Mar 19, 2020
President Trump said Thursday that the antimalarial drug chloroquine had shown "very encouraging early results" treating COVID-19 and will be rolled out "almost immediately" to help fight the growing coronavirus outbreak. But FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn cautioned that chloroquine had not yet been approved for treating COVID-19.
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Mar 19, 2020
"A historic event demands a historic response," the chief of the National Guard Bureau said, adding that the Guard is the ideal force to help communities respond to the coronavirus threat.
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Mar 19, 2020
John Weaver, once a senior adviser to Sen. John McCain, discusses his group's effort to defeat Trump and GOP senators.
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Mar 19, 2020
The Navy's hospital ship on the west coast is "a matter of days" from leaving its home port of San Diego to help in the coronavirus response, but its east coast counterpart is still weeks from getting underway, a Navy official told Yahoo News Thursday morning. In addition, according to Cuomo, Trump suggested moving some of the military's mobile field hospitals to New York.
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Mar 19, 2020
Follow along for heartwarming stories of camaraderie; funny videos (like penguins taking a field trip) and memes; and more.
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Mar 19, 2020
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii announced on Thursday she was dropping her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In a video posted on her website, Gabbard said she had concluded that she could best serve the country during the current emergency in her capacity as a member of Congress, and in the Hawaii National Guard if her unit is activated. An Iraq War veteran and four-term representative, Gabbard officially launched her campaign in February 2019, emphasizing a non-interventionist foreign policy.
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Mar 19, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on President Trump to use the Defense Production Act powers that he invoked Wednesday but later in the day said he was not yet utilizing in the fight against the coronavirus.
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Mar 18, 2020
Coronavirus will scramble this summer's planned RNC and DNC, requiring "virtual" conventions, veteran political strategist Joe Trippi told the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast.
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Mar 18, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday explained that a basic problem facing hospitals in the coronavirus outbreak is a shortage of the equipment that helps critically ill people breathe.
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Mar 18, 2020
As state and federal officials continue to ramp up efforts to control the outbreak of coronavirus in the United States, new information about the virus is raising new questions about the official messaging on the use of face masks.
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Mar 18, 2020
As state and federal officials continue to ramp up efforts to control the outbreak of coronavirus in the United States, new information about the virus — in particular the potential for transmission by people without symptoms — is raising new questions about the official messaging on the use of face masks during this pandemic. In a series of tweets Wednesday morning, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggested that evidence that the virus can be spread by asymptomatic people undermines the official position maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that masks should only be worn by the sick. "If the concern is that asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic younger Americans (millennials) are continuing to spread #Coronavirus because they don't heed warnings, you could require anyone between certain ages to wear a procedure mask when they go out," wrote Gottlieb. Procedure masks, similar to surgical masks, are general-use medical face masks that attach to the back of the head or ears with straps and are used to catch bacteria released from the wearer's mouth or nose.
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Mar 18, 2020
Joe Biden is popular with just about every part of the Democratic base, except for young people. Will his struggles with the youth vote cost him the general election?
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Mar 18, 2020
The Trump administration announced a "historic breakthrough" by expanding telehealth services for Americans 65 and up, the demographic most at risk in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mar 18, 2020
Follow along for heartwarming stories of camaraderie; funny videos (like penguins taking a field trip) and memes; and more.
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