Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went after President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, slamming his Republican rival for not doing more.
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Skylar Herbert, a 5-year-old African American girl from Detroit, became the youngest person to die in Michigan from Covid-19 in April. Her death led to a memorial fund in her name, backed by local police and fire departments, which directly supports her first responder parents.
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The University of California system will no longer use the SAT or ACT standardized tests as a consideration for admission after the UC Regents voted unanimously to discontinue its use during its meeting on Thursday.
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The pathway out of the Covid-19 pandemic demands testing and well-coordinated strategy but it also requires transparency, a group of public health experts told a new congressional body tasked with overseeing the federal government’s response to the crisis.
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The majority of Americans believe that the federal government has primary responsibility for Covid-19 testing, but there are strong disagreements along partisan lines over responses to the ongoing pandemic.
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The view from the White House on America’s testing capability for Covid-19 was undeniably rosy Monday afternoon, despite the virus spreading through the ranks of the Trump administration itself and the U.S. death count climbing ever closer to 100,000.
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The California Supreme Court has postponed this year’s bar exam until Sept. 9, ordering the State Bar to “make every effort possible” to administer the test online.
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The House of Representatives on Thursday sent to President Donald Trump’s desk a $484 billion package that pours hundreds of billions of dollars into a federal small business loan program and sets aside money for hospitals and testing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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The head of the World Health Organization on Monday blasted as racist comments two French doctors made on television suggesting tests for a Covid-19 vaccine should be conducted on Africans because Africa will be less capable of protecting people against coronavirus.
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Louisiana’s governor said Thursday afternoon that a 42% increase in coronavirus cases reported between Wednesday and Thursday is likely the result of delays from commercial tests that are typically performed at drive-thru sites, indicating the people getting tested are generally healthy enough to avoid hospitalization.
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Dozens of anxious law students flooded an emergency phone meeting of the California Committee of Bar Examiners on Monday to beg for automatic admission to the bar rather than face the uncertainty of a postponed exam.
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Turning up the heat on the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak in America, Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee issued a letter to senior health officials Thursday demanding they turn over information about U.S. testing capacity.
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As Congress and the White House work on more measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its toll on the economy, the Senate voted Wednesday to send a House-approved bill covering free testing and paid sick leave to President Donald Trump’s desk.
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Last month, Corin Barsily Goodwin, a 52-year-old semi-retired tutor from Renton, Washington, visited family in New York City and milled among throngs of international tourists. It wasn’t until she returned home that she noticed her sore throat.
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Despite an announcement from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that a deal had been reached with the White House, the future of a coronavirus response bill that includes free testing and paid sick leave for workers remains unclear.
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The nation’s senior-most expert on infectious diseases told lawmakers Thursday the U.S. is failing at a federal level to administer broadscale testing for the novel coronavirus.
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A Brazilian official who met with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence just days ago has tested positive for COVID-19, but the White House says neither Trump nor Pence will be tested for the coronavirus.
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One of the world’s leading virologists suspects that there is a growing mass of undetected, symptomless cases of the new coronavirus strain due to technical limitations on diagnostic test kits.
Read moreNew York state sued Thermo Fisher Scientific and Microgenics Corp. for $761,000, claiming they provided urinalysis drug test kits to use in state prisons that produce false positives, subjecting inmates to unwarranted discipline, in Albany County Supreme Court.
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