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UPDATED with latest: "We can now return to life as we know it," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said as he announced the state’s broad reopening on Tuesday. Those words were echoed at nearly the same moment by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who himself announced his state’s “full reopening” on Tuesday with the words, “We've…

“When I first started at CDC two months ago,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Monday, “I promised I would tell the truth, even when it wasn’t the news you wanted to hear. Now is one of those times when I have to share the truth and I have to hope and trust you will listen.” Dr. Walensky then grew emotional…

On Tuesday, Johns Hopkins University revealed that Covid-19 had infected more than 100 million people globally. That milestone comes a little over one year since the first case was confirmed in the United States. The U.S. now accounts for over one-quarter of those 100 million cases, even though it has only 4% of the…

Dr. Anthony Fauci led his first Covid-19 press conference for the Biden administration on Thursday. Asked about newly confirmed President Joe Biden’s directive to “be completely transparent,” Fauci called it “liberating.” The nation’s foremost infectious diseases expert then went on to confirm that, while the United St…

Implementation of a nationwide mask mandate, combined with complementary public health measures, could reduce the coronavirus’ spread to essentially zero and have a potential $1 trillion impact on the U.S. GDP, according to researchers at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. The team’s research “makes clear that…

Airline passengers heading to the U.S. from the UK must test negative for COVID-19 before departure, the Centers for Disease Control said late Thursday. This comes following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus that may be up to 70% more transmissible and is spreading in Britain and elsewhere. Airline…

“This is the greatest public health crisis in a century,” said Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield bluntly on Thursday. In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms. “It's dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times…

While it took 45 days to climb from 1 million and 2 million coronavirus cases in the United States, it took just only 16 days for infections to jump from 3 million to, as of Thursday, 4 million. How did that happen? “What we have right now are essentially three New Yorks,” said White House coronavirus task force…