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Biden to hit the campaign trail after negative test for COVID-19

Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 03:58 AM

WILMINGTON, Delaware - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden plans to head to the battleground state of Michigan and resume campaigning on Friday after testing negative for coronavirus, hours after President Donald Trump was sidelined by contracting the virus. Read more »

Trump unable to escape virus as term comes to a close

Hervé Rouach, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 02 08:02 PM

The COVID-19 crisis had already haunted Donald Trump's first term in office, as his scatter-gun response placed him increasingly at odds with the science. Then he tested positive, a month before the election. Read more »

US President Trump, Melania test positive for COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 02 03:42 PM

US President Donald Trump and wife Melania have tested positive for COVID-19. Read more »

Trump quarantines; virus situation worsens in Europe

Jerome Cartillier, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 02 12:16 PM

WASHINGTON (UPDATE) - US President Donald Trump went into quarantine Thursday night after a potential Covid-19 exposure, as more restrictions loomed in Europe in an attempt to contain the deadly pandemic. Read more »

Study finds ‘single largest driver’ of COVID misinformation: Trump

Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 01 09:58 AM

The study, to be released Thursday, is the first comprehensive examination of coronavirus misinformation in traditional and online media.   Read more »

US hits 5 million virus cases as Trump criticized over relief package

Brian Knowlton, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 03:30 PM

WASHINGTON -- The United States on Sunday reached the extraordinary milestone of five million coronavirus cases as President Donald Trump was accused of flouting the constitution by unilaterally extending a virus relief package. Read more »

Bolsonaro says he tested negative for COVID-19, two weeks after diagnosis

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 25 10:47 PM

Bolsonaro apparently used unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the effectiveness of which against COVID-19 has not been demonstrated in clinical trials. Read more »

Virus, protests and Trump’s angry words darken US Independence Day weekend

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 05 12:03 AM

Fireworks displays are typically a high point of the holiday, with crowds of thousands gathering to ooh and aah, but an estimated 80 percent of the events have been canceled this year.  Read more »

Trump says he urged team to 'slow' COVID-19 testing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 22 08:30 AM

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was encouraging health officials in his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, arguing that increased tests lead to more cases being discovered.   Read more »

With fact-checks, Twitter takes on a new kind of task

Elizabeth Culliford and Katie Paul, Reuters
Updated as of May 31 09:40 AM

In addition to disputing misleading claims made by US President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month, mostly on posts about the coronavirus.   Read more »

Trump dismisses concern over virus spreading in White House

Jerome Cartillier, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 12 07:16 AM

US President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed concerns over the possible spread of coronavirus in the White House but said he may limit contact with Vice President Mike Pence. Read more »

In leaked call, Obama describes Trump handling of virus as chaotic

Steve Holland, Reuters
Posted at May 10 07:40 AM

Former President Barack Obama described President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as "chaotic" in a conference call with former members of his administration, a source said on Saturday. Read more »

China slams US after Trump says COVID-19 'attack' worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 08:49 PM

Tension between the world’s two biggest economies has reached fever pitch in recent days as they have exchanged barbed comments on each other's handling of the virus. Read more »

US milestone of 100,000 virus deaths likely by June

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 05 07:45 AM

US President Donald Trump now says his worst-case coronavirus scenario would be 100,000 deaths, but the country will probably reach that grim milestone by next month, according to several scientific models -- none of which predict a summertime halt to the virus's spread.   Read more »

US states loosen lockdowns as coronavirus drug approved

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 02 09:42 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - More US states eased pandemic lockdown measures on Friday even as coronavirus deaths rose, while American authorities greenlighted an experimental drug for emergency use on patients. Read more »

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

Reuters
Posted at Apr 21 02:27 PM

Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Read more »

Director of Wuhan lab denies virus link

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 19 02:44 PM

BEIJING - The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the source of the outbreak, calling it "impossible." Read more »

WHO chief Tedros in the eye of pandemic and Trump storm

Agnes Pedrero, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 16 07:27 AM

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the World Health Organization, has drawn the ire of US President Donald Trump over his chummy tone with China in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

Coronavirus: Trump decides against quarantine of New York region

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 11:56 AM

US President Donald Trump decided late Saturday against imposing a broad two-week lockdown on New York and its neighbors after a strong pushback from local political leaders and warnings of the panic it could spark.   Read more »

COVID-19 cases top 43,000 in the US

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 24 02:08 PM

The United States has recorded more than 43,000 cases of COVID-19 including 20,000 in New York state alone, a report by the ABS-CBN North America News Bureau said Tuesday.  Read more »