VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – The U.S. surgeon general has a message for Americans inclined to wear a mask to ward off the deadly coronavirus — don’t. «Their risk as American citizens remains low,» Surgeon General Jerome Adams told the «Fox & Friends» show on Monday. «There are things that people can do to […]readmore
VOA News By Lisa Schlein GENEVA – The World Health Organization is urging countries affected by the coronavirus to enact containment measures as the best way to slow down the spread of this deadly disease. While most of the nearly 89,000 cases of coronavirus are reported from China, WHO said Monday the virus appears to be […]readmore
VOA News By Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE – As the reported number of coronavirus cases and fatalities on Monday increased in the United States, President Donald Trump said there is no immediate need to declare a national emergency. «I don’t think you’ll need that, because I really think we’re in extremely good shape,» the president said. […]readmore
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – The death toll from the coronavirus in the U.S. climbed to six Monday and the disease spread to ever more countries and world capitals, even as new cases in China dropped to their lowest level in six weeks. A shift in the crisis appeared to be taking shape, as hundreds of […]readmore
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks the spread of a new coronavirus in the United States is avoidable and expressed confidence his administration is ready to respond. “I don’t think it’s inevitable,” he told reporters at the White House. “It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very […]readmore
VOA News AP Una segunda oleada de influenza azota a Estados Unidos convirtiendo a la actual temporada en una de las peores para los niños en una década. La cifra de muertes infantiles y la tasa de hospitalización de niños son las más altas registradas en esta fecha para cualquier temporada desde el severo brote […]readmore
By VOA News U.S. health officials are preparing for a second wave of the winter flu season, complicated this year by similarities between flu symptoms and those of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 in China and spread fear around the world. A first round of seasonal flu, caused by a strain of influenza […]readmore
VOA News By Steve Baragona Does fighting climate change mean wrecking the economy? That’s the question my editor posed to me about a year ago. It has been the focus of my reporting ever since. The rhetoric from climate change skeptics suggests it would. President Donald Trump has made canceling Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations a central […]readmore
VOA News By Michelle Quinn SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. health officials began screening at three airports — here, Los Angeles and New York — of passengers traveling from Wuhan, a city in central China, where a viral pneumonia has spread. As of Saturday, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said four more people were diagnosed with the virus. […]readmore
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) today voted in favor of H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. The bill, which passed the House by a vote of 230-192, aims to provide relief to Americans struggling with high prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to achieve price […]readmore