Health & Safety

Coronavirus Repercussion: Tourists Abandon Rome's Streets

10:18am March 06, 2020

by Sylvia Poggioli

Rome is not the center of Italy's coronavirus outbreak, but tourists are staying clear of the city's sights, schools are shut down and Romans are having groceries delivered.

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Coronavirus Test Kits Are In Shortly Supply, Vice President Pence Says

7:25am March 06, 2020

The Trump administration promises to expand testing across the U.S. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Lauren Sauer of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response about the testing.

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News Brief: Coronavirus, Michigan Primary, Mortgage Rates Drop

6:59am March 06, 2020

New coronavirus cases emerge across the country. Michigan is the biggest of the six primary states voting next week. And, a cease-fire between Turkey and Russia is in effect in northwestern Syria.

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President Trump listens to Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, after a tour earlier this week.

Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging

10:17pm March 05, 2020

by Tamara Keith

Trump told a Fox News host that some people with coronavirus "get better just by ... sitting around and even going to work." He later tweeted that he wasn't telling people to go to work while sick.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, pictured in February, urged residents not to panic as he announced the states first three cases of coronavirus tests.

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Maryland Confirms 3 Coronavirus Cases, As COVID-19 Spreads In Other States

10:15pm March 05, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"We have been actively preparing for this situation over the last several weeks across all levels of government," Gov. Larry Hogan said on Thursday.

Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, in September.

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Recovering From Heart Surgery

9:54pm March 05, 2020

by Scott Neuman

Dimon, 63, who is the longest-serving head of a major U.S. bank, experienced "an acute aortic dissection" and underwent surgery to repair it Thursday morning, a JPMorgan memo said.

Cough into your elbow, not your hand. Or pull the collar of your T-shirt up to cover your mouth when coughing. That's the coughing advice from experts who seek to minimize risk of viral transmission.

How Coronavirus Spreads: A Cough In Your Face ... Or A Kiss On Your Cheek

9:51pm March 05, 2020

by Pien Huang

After looking at the patterns of spread in China, researchers have come up with advice for effective strategies to reduce the risk of infection.

President Trump greets a supporter following a Fox News Town Hall Thursday in Scranton, Pa.

Trump Says He Still Has To Shake Hands, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

8:54pm March 05, 2020

by Brian Naylor

At a town hall Thursday evening, he contradicted health officials' advice to avoid the traditional greeting.

A man wearing a protective face mask walks at a nearly empty shopping mall in Beijing on Feb. 27. Business activity in China has all but halted, with entire cities under quarantine and industries forced to lay off workers.

Coronavirus Spreads Recession Fears Around The World

6:46pm March 05, 2020

by Jim Zarroli

U.S. businesses are shutting down plants and watching their sales plummet around the world. Many economists now say odds are increasing that the economy will slow, if not contract altogether.

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"Access to testing is really the major tool we have right now to fight this new coronavirus," says Dr. Keith Jerome, who runs a University of Washington lab in Seattle that can now test for the virus.

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When Coronavirus Struck Seattle, This Lab Was Ready To Start Testing

6:00pm March 05, 2020

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists at the University of Washington's medical school began working on a test for coronavirus back in January. Now they're using it to fight an outbreak in their own backyard.

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