A vaccine expert who claims he was ousted from his role at the Department of Health and Human Services will tell Congress on Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration was not prepared for the novel coronavirus pandemic and that it dismissed his warnings about how bad it could become.
CVS Health is escalating its cross-country effort to expand testing for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 with plans to open 1,000 locations by the end of the month.
Health insurers fled the Affordable Care Act in the early years of the law, fearing that losses from covering too many sick people would eat away at their profits. Now the insurers increasingly view Obamacare as a boon while job-based health coverage faces its biggest threat yet in a crashing economy.
Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a law enforcement action.
Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, has warned of “needless suffering and death” if reopening occurs prematurely. No state has met the White House’s own reopening criteria, yet more than 40 of them have loosened or are loosening social distancing restrictions. So here’s the question I would have asked the witnesses at Tuesday’s Senate coronavirus hearing: Have we formally retreated from a goal of containing covid-19 to one of harm reduction?