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Even as government officials scolded and health experts warned, Americans flocked to the beaches this Memorial Day weekend after two months of confinement. Beaches from the East coast to the West coast and along the southern tip in Florida, Texas and more were packed, and lakes saw an influx of boaters and party…

Los Angeles County reported 1,032 new COVID-19 cases and 41 new deaths today in the daily total released by the Health Dept. That brings the LA County total to date to 44,055 cases and 2,090 deaths in the pandemic. The County crossed the 2,000 deaths total on Thursday. The overall US death total is nearing 100,000. Dr…

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, identified the Los Angeles metro area and two other major cities on Friday as places of concern because they have a “persistent high number of cases” yet remain closed. She also cited Washington, D.C. and Chicago as hotspots, and called for the…

Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said that they are starting to see “encouraging signs” that the rate of cases is leveling off. “You can see for the first time in the United States, we are starting to level on the logarithmic phase, like Italy did about a week ago,” she said at a…

It’s come to this: The White House is now advising everyone not to head to the grocery store or pharmacy in the coming two weeks. "The next two weeks are extraordinarily important," White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx said Saturday at a press conference. "This is the moment to not be going to…

The United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s expert on infectious diseases. Fauci made his prediction in an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning. “I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,” as…