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The best way to get Americans back to work faster

April 9, 2020 / By Arpit Gupta and David Sraer for CNN Business Perspectives The Covid-19 pandemic has paralyzed the US economy, with millions of Americans being urged to stay home and many businesses shuttered. Now that the stimulus package has passed, our policymakers should be working on a credible and feasible way to reduce the length …

NYC Could Need Up To 45,000 Additional Medical Workers This Month, Mayor Says

April 9, 2020 / JASON BRESLOW Mayor Bill de Blasio is warning that New York City could require an additional 45,000 medical workers by the end of April to help reinforce a hospital system that has been stretched dangerously thin by the COVID-19 crisis. In an interview Thursday with NPR’s Morning Edition, the mayor called that projection …

2nd coronavirus vaccine trial begins in US using ‘skin-deep’ shots

April 9, 2020 / Associated Press U.S. researchers have opened another safety test of an experimental  COVID-19 vaccine, this one using a skin-deep shot instead of the usual deeper jab. The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told the volunteer lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday. “It’s …

‘We all want to avoid a false start,’ Fed Chair Powell says on reopening the economy

April 9, 2020 / By David Gura Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expressed caution about reopening the economy too soon, saying “we all want to avoid a false start” in a speech Thursday morning just hours after the central bank announced a new multitrillion-dollar round of emergency measures. “This is going to be, and is, a …

New York Coronavirus Hospitalizations Drop To Lowest Level Since March 19

April 9, 2020 / Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes Staff Topline: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference on Thursday that even though his state again saw its biggest single-day increase in coronavirus deaths, the total number of new hospitalizations continues to decline, hitting its lowest level in three weeks. New York is the global …

‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room

April 8, 2020 / LEILA FADEL At one New York City hospital, a doctor’s used mask tore as she performed CPR on her infected patient. In Seattle, a nurse compares walking into her intensive care unit to bathing in COVID-19. And in St. Louis, a nurse slips her used N95 mask into a paper bag …

Coronavirus lockdown measures should not be lifted until vaccine found, study says

April 9, 2020 / By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News A new study says that despite stay-at-home measures being successful in flattening the curve of the coronavirus pandemic, any easing of restrictions could be counterintuitive prior to a vaccine being discovered. “The first wave of COVID-19 outside of Hubei has abated because of aggressive non-pharmaceutical interventions,” the researchers wrote in …

Fauci: Don’t Assume Coronavirus Will Slow Down In Warm Weather

April 9, 2020 / Ariel Shapiro, Forbes Staff Topline: The spread of coronavirus will not necessarily slow down in warm weather, Dr. Anthony Fauci said during an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, diminishing the idea that life in the U.S. can return to normal in summer. The lockdowns and closure of non-essential businesses across the country have …

Some ER doctors are losing pay and hours even as coronavirus rages

April 8, 2020 / By Tami Luhby, Sonia Moghe, Natasha Chen and Jasmine Wright, CNN (CNN) – Many emergency room doctors around the country are seeing their hours, pay and benefits cut, even as the coronavirus overwhelms hospitals in New York City and other hotspots. Though many hospitals are seeing more very sick coronavirus victims, they have had to sharply curtail their more …

Obamacare’s health care protections face first true test in coronavirus crisis

April 5, 2020 / By Jacqueline Stenson The Affordable Care Act turned 10 last month and is credited with helping 20 million more Americans get health insurance than before the law was enacted. But the coronavirus pandemic could be the first true test of how well “Obamacare” works at preventing significant coverage loss, experts say. With …

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