‘We’re moving back into a modification mode of our original stay-at-home order,” Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said. ‘This continues to be a deadly disease.’
‘Well, I don’t know that he’s a leaker. He’s a little bit of an alarmist,’ President Trump said of Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A federal dashboard that provides information to the public about COVID-19 data that is provided by hospitals has not been updated since a rapidly implemented rule for how hospitals report that kind of data was put into place.
Walmart and Best Buy join the list of retailers that are now requiring face masks, with the National Retail Federation calling on retailers to put a policy in place.
Melinda Gates is among those who’ve suggested Black communities should get early access to a vaccine. But some say that could stigmatize people of color.
Charmin toilet paper-maker Procter & Gamble Co. has joined other consumer-product conglomerates with its own updated climate-change campaign, agreeing with rivals that the next decade is a critical time for action, but drawing fresh concern from natural-resource groups.
Freakish Siberian heat and a record string of high-temperature days during the already typically soupy Washington, D.C., summer are just two of a handful of weather phenomena adding to the public-health stress of COVID-19.
Hackers compromised dozens of high profile Twitter Inc. accounts late Wednesday in an attempted cryptocurrency heist and the microblogging site appeared to be spending the day taking them down.
Bitcoin prices on Wednesday evening were virtually unchanged, even as unknown hackers were perpetuating a massive scam to lure bitcoins away from owners.