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DETROIT (AP) — Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is joining a growing call for the release of comprehensive racial data on the coronavirus pandemic, which he says has put a spotlight on inequity and the impact of “structural racism.” Biden’s Medium poston Thursday said he is joining Democratic congressional members Ayanna Pressley, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and others who have also called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies to release more data. Biden said he wants data released on income, too, to better help allocate resources to communities in need. Biden acknowledged this...

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Attorney General William Barr late Wednesday claimed that the Washington press corps is on a "jihad" against President Trump over his promotion of an anti-malaria drug to treat the novel coronavirus. In an interview with Fox News's Laura Ingraham Barr lauded Trump's response to the outbreak of the virus, saying that the president has been "very statesmanlike" in his efforts to work with governors around the country to address the crisis. He railed against the media's coverage of those efforts, though, arguing that the president has been the target of "snarky, gotcha questions from the White House media pool." He...

Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise. Workers in hazmat outfits were seen using a ladder to descend into a huge pit where the coffins were stacked. The location is Hart Island, used for New Yorkers with no next of kin or who could not afford a funeral. New York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country, according to latest figures. The state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 jumped by 10,000 on Thursday to 159,937, of whom 7,000 have...

Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University's Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus. ...he offers data to show that China and South Korea had already reached their peak number of cases when they instituted their containment measures...nature had already...nearly achieved herd immunity. With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have...

FORT WORTH, Texas — While physicians, government leaders, and even President Donald Trump turn to the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine in the fight against COVID-19, one Tarrant County woman believed to have contracted the disease in late February says the drug saved her life. Heavy research now surrounds hydroxychloroquine after some physicians saw success in treating COVID-19 patients with it. President Trump even said in a news conference earlier this week that 29 million doses have been added to the National Strategic Stockpile, which is a repository of medical supplies used to respond to medical emergencies. Governor Greg Abbott said Monday...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky doctor has been arrested and charged with attacking a group of teenage girls for not practicing social distancing after video of the violent encounter went viral over the weekend. Dr. John B. Rademaker, 57, of Prospect, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of first-degree strangulation and three counts of harassment, according to officials with the Louisville Metro Police Department. Authorities declined to offer further comment in a post on Facebook, but released a statement to local media outlets. “Obviously, we do not advise individuals concerned about social distancing to take matters into their own hands...

Former Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton has been indicted on a felony charge of injury to a child after his teenage daughter accused him of beating her. A Tarrant County grand jury indicted the 38-year-old Hamilton on Monday. He remains free on $30,000 bond after he turned himself in to authorities on Oct. 30. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence of two to 10 years in prison. Hamilton's attorneys say the Texas Rangers Hall of Famer is innocent of the charge. His 14-year-old daughter told her mother, Hamilton’s ex-wife, that her father struck her after he became enraged by...

Health experts are warning the national count of Covid-19 deaths in the United States could be underestimated as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread. This could be especially true because the reporting data can lag by an average of one to two weeks, according to the latest guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's. Also, deaths due to Covid-19 "may be misclassified as pneumonia deaths in the absence of positive test results, and pneumonia may appear on death certificates as a comorbid condition," the CDC noted, adding that "analyses to better understand and quantify reporting delays" for...

Americans bought over 2 million firearms in March of 2020, over a million more than this time last year. We have to keep each other safe by social distancing and washing our hands and not bringing dangerous firearms into our homes. #StopTheCoronavirusGunSurge #NoRA pic.twitter.com/O5J98QXTFO— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 9, 2020

Former GOP Rep. Ron Paul calls on Trump to fire top coronavirus adivsor Fauci because 'he's a fraud, doesn't give good information and is trying to have total control over the people' Former Texas Republican Representative Ron Paul called on the Trump administrationto fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top coronavirus advisor Paul said Fauci provided 'bad information' after he lowered his national death estimates from the outbreak Thursday from more than 100,000 to 60,000 The lower figures, however, are contingent on continued social distancing continues that would effectively slow the spread of the outbreak Paul, speaking on his program,...

The Trump administration is pushing to reopen much of the country next month, raising concerns among health experts and economists of a possible covid-19 resurgence if Americans return to their normal lives before the virus is truly stamped out. Behind closed doors, President Trump — concerned with the sagging economy — has sought a strategy for resuming business activity by May 1, according to people familiar with the discussions. In phone calls with outside advisers, Trump has even floated trying to reopen much of the country before the end of this month, when the current federal recommendations to avoid social...

Donald Trump says there will not be mass testing for all Americans when the economy reopens but insists deaths will be 'far lower' than 100,000 As White House shares hope of getting people back to work in early May President Donald Trump predicted deaths from the coronavirus in the United States will be much lower than 100,000 'You are looking at a much lower level than the level of, I hope the level of 100,000,' he said at the daily White House briefing 'It's working America,' Vice President Pence said of containment measures President Trump also said the economy was...

Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul called for the firing of Dr, Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, and called him a “fraud.” “He should be fired, but if you don’t do it in the literal sense, the people have to fire him,” the Texas Republican said on his show. “They have to fire him by saying ‘he’s a fraud.’” “The plan that they have is when things are getting back to normal, people can return to their work, and they do things, and go to the golf course if they get a stamp...

Vice President Mike Pence's office is barring top public health officials from appearing on CNN, the network reported. The ban will remain in effect until CNN agrees to carry the daily White House coronavirus briefings in their entirety, instead of breaking away after the president is done speaking, the network said it was told. The situation reflects a growing unease among news organizations about how much of the hours-long daily briefings should be aired live.

Dr. Oz The television doctor, an "unpaid guest," has become a regular dispenser of analysis and commentary. Dr. Oz had a busy day Tuesday. The syndicated talk show host participated in Fox News Channel's virtual town hall with President Donald Trump in the afternoon, appeared on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business Network show, did a hit on Fox host Sean Hannity's radio show a few hours later and then did Hannity's primetime television show at night. (On Wednesday, he started off the day on Fox & Friends in the morning.) Dr. Oz, the director of the Integrative Medical Center at the...

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville claimed Wednesday that Republicans were so intent on maintaining power that they would literally “kill people” in order to do so. “My kind of mission in the short-term is to sound the alarm to say [that] Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court — they’re going to do everything they can to hold onto power,” Carville said duing an appearance on MSNBC. “This thing in Wisconsin was one of the most awful things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Carville added, referring to the controversy over whether to postpone the Badger State’s primary elections due to...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci joins "CBS This Morning" after he and other medical experts credited Americans as well as the mitigation efforts of state and local governments for what they say are signs that the coronavirus' spread is slowing. However, he warned that the next few weeks will be critical and that models may continue to display a downward trend if Americans "redouble our efforts" at social distancing and other precautions.

One of the sources said Cohen was placed in solitary after another inmate complained about his internet use. “It is my understanding that a verbal dispute over phone use prompted a temporary placement to SHU pending an investigation. I do not, however, know who prompted the altercation, or if the action taken was factually/regulatory appropriate,” Cohen’s lawyer, Roger Adler, said in an email to Reuters. A former representative for Cohen, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.