The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rolled a test that would determine whether or not someone has been infected with coronavirus. This type of test, which is known as a serology test, looks for antibodies against the new virus in the blood. Health officials say the test could help scientists understand how … Read more
Eiza Gonzalez wears a bandanna over her face as she stocks up at the grocery store By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 03:09 BST, 7 April 2020 | Updated: 03:11 BST, 7 April 2020 She was ‘heartbroken’ after losing out on the role of Catwoman in the upcoming Batman film. Eiza González played a different … Read more
President Trump announced at his Friday press briefing that the Centers for Disease Control was now recommending that Americans wear non-medical cloth masks – but pressed that it wasn’t a mandate. ‘So it’s voluntary, you don’t have to be doing it,’ the president said from the briefing room podium. ‘This is voluntary, I don’t think I’m … Read more
President Trump announced at his Friday press briefing that the Centers for Disease Control was now recommending that Americans wear non-medical cloth masks – but pressed that it wasn’t a mandate. ‘So it’s voluntary, you don’t have to be doing it,’ the president said from the briefing room podium. ‘This is voluntary, I don’t think I’m … Read more
As many as 25 percent of people with coronavirus are asymptomatic, according to CDC director Dr Robert Redfield (pictured at the White House, March 22) The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says as many as one in four coronavirus patients in the US are asymptomatic. Dr Robert Redfield told NPR … Read more
Coronavirus can survive on a surface for 17 days, says the CDC after traces were found in cabins on infected cruise ship Diamond Princess more than two weeks after passengers left Researchers have made the startling discovering that a form of the coronavirus can linger around for more than two weeks. New traces of the … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) never discussed providing coronavirus testing kits to the US in the early days of the outbreak. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped hundreds of thousands of test kits around the world – but the US was not among … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: CDC confirms first case of employee testing positive for coronavirus but says they were not part of the response team The CDC said it has confirmed the first case of an employee testing positive for coronavirus He or she was not involved in the CDC’s response to the nationwide outbreak of the highly-infectious … Read more