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Pope Francis delivers his message during Easter Sunday Mass inside an empty St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Pope Francis and Christians around the world marked a solitary Easter Sunday, forced to celebrate the most joyful day in the liturgical calendar amid the sorrowful reminders of the devastation wrought by the […]

Hogan, Cuomo call for additional $500B in aid to states Governors Larry Hogan of Maryland and Andrew Cuomo of New York issued a bipartisan call Saturday for an additional $500 billion in federal aid for U.S. states and territories dealing with the coronavirus. Hogan is chairman of the National Governors Association and Cuomo is the […]

Californians may have developed immunity to the coronavirus. New York’s population is about half the size of California’s, yet the East Coast state has experienced 14 times as many deaths due to the coronavirus and experts are trying to figure out how that is possible. Considering the amount of travel to and from China in […]

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Trump: “We will be substantially below 100,000 deaths in US” At today’s briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task force,  President Trump said initial projections of anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 deaths […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon). Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return In a first, […]

AP Photo / Rich Pedroncelli, Pool Today, during Governor Gavin Newsom’s press conference he announced that California is starting to create protocols in hospitals to decontaminate used N95 masks with a newly FDA approved technique. The Food and Drug Administration says there is a company in Ohio, Battelle, that is capable of processing up to 80,000 […]

A patient is wheeled past two medical workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) as the pair study a cell phone after carrying an oxygen tank out of Elmhurst Hospital Center’s emergency room, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, during the current coronavirus outbreak in the Queens borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate […]

Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis has crippled the court system and since the shelter-in-place order was issued on March 16th, the courts have been operating with a reduced work force making everyday tasks overwhelming. To help combat this issue, on Monday, the California judicial court began using a statewide emergency order suspending evictions and minimizing bail. During […]

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and President Donald Trump listen to a question during a conference call with banks on efforts to help small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, at the White House, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). NYC virus deaths exceed 3,200, topping toll for 9/11 attacks New York City’s death […]

Faint glimmers of hope as virus deaths appear to be holding in New York The steep rise in coronavirus deaths in New York appears to leveling off in a faint glimmer of hope in the nation’s epicenter,the governor said Monday, warning residents they must continue to adhere to social distancing and lockdown measures that have […]