White House defends coronavirus safety measures as another staffer falls ill
The White House on Friday defended measures it has taken to protect President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as another staffer tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about the safety of the United States’ top leaders.
`I’m never going to be the same’: Medics grapple with mental trauma on COVID-19 front line
Anne Messman, a veteran emergency room physician in Detroit, knew something was wrong when she developed insomnia and became unusually irritated with people she loved.
Trump, Pence have not had contact with infected Pence staffer recently: official
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have not been in contact recently with a member of Pence’s staff who was found to be infected with the coronavirus, a senior administration official said on Friday.
U.S. CDC reopening guidelines are under review: White House
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended guidelines on when and how localities should reopen activity are being edited, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Friday.
Protesters decry delay in arrests of two white men in shooting of black Georgia jogger
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of a Georgia courthouse on Friday to decry the killing of an unarmed black man in February and the delay in charging two white men in a shooting captured on video that was released earlier this week.
Some White House staff now masked as another staffer tests positive
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said some White House employees have started wearing face masks as a staffer to Vice President Mike Pence tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about the safety of the country’s top leaders.
New York coronavirus hospitalizations at six-week low: governor
The number of people hospitalized for the novel coronavirus across New York has fallen to a six-week low as the state hit hardest by the pandemic has figured out how to “control the beast”, Governor Andrew Cuomo told a briefing on Friday.
Working women, and especially single moms, are hit hard by coronavirus downturn
Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans.
Member of U.S. Vice President’s staff tests positive for coronavirus: official
A member of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s staff has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, briefly delaying his Friday flight to Iowa and prompting some fellow passengers on Air Force Two to disembark, according to a White House official.
Pence staffer tests positive for coronavirus, Trump says White House staffers wearing masks
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said certain White House staff members have started wearing face masks, one day after the White House said his personal valet had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
