Boris Johnson’s opening words in a coronavirus crisis phone call with Donald Trump were ‘we need ventilators’, the US president has revealed. The Prime Minister has been urging businesses to ramp up production of the life-saving machines, which are desperately lacking in the UK. Mr Trump has invoked Korean War-era legislation to order the General … Read more
President Donald Trump said Friday he is using wartime federal authority to force production of up to 100,000 ventilators – less than a day after saying governors were making over-blown estimates of the medical need. Trump made the comment on the ventilator shopping spree just hours after announcing he was invoking the Defense Production Act … Read more
President Donald Trump is using the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to manufacture ventilators to be used by overwhelmed hospitals – in a move that follows an angry blow-up online. Democrats and administration critics have been pushing the Trump administration to use Korean War-era military authority to speed production of vital equipment. Trump … Read more
Donald Trump begins to water down commitment to open the country up by Easter saying some areas will NOT qualify – and promising to ask Tony Fauci for advice Trump talked about opening ‘big sections of our country’ that he said were little affected There are spiraling outbreaks in New York, California, Washington and Louisiana … Read more
The Navy hospital ship being sent to help coronavirus-stricken Los Angeles traveled just nine miles from San Diego in 24 hours – and spent most of Tuesday anchored off Imperial Beach, California, DailyMail.com can disclose. USNS Mercy, a converted oil tanker that has space to treat up to 1,000 patients, left its home port at … Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday argued that thousands die every year from the flu and the United States doesn’t shut down the economy, adding he wants the guidelines he put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus over by Easter. ‘We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We … Read more
A health expert on Monday warned that coronavirus will ‘spread widely, rapidly, terribly and millions could die’ if Donald Trump lifts lockdowns in the United States early. Tom Inglesby, a director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tweeted his fears after the president said he will reconsider the nation’s social distancing policy within a matter … Read more
President Donald Trump once again touted a new drug regimen against the coronavirus he said may prove ‘very affective’ against the disease – at a briefing where top national expert Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn’t present. Trump said clinical trials would begin on the anti-malarial drug chloroquine, which has been seen to have positive effects in … Read more
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Sunday it was temporarily putting new emergency access to its experimental coronavirus drug on hold. Remdesivir has been touted by Donald Trump and credited with helping in the recovery of a 79-year-old Italian man who had the disease. But the drugmaker said in a statement there had been an exponential increase … Read more
President Donald Trump won’t rule out accepting government assistance for his Trump Organization after the company closed Mar-a-Lago, fired staff, and even shut down the bars at its Washington D.C. luxury hotel in the wake of the coronavirus. ‘I don’t know. I mean, I just don’t know what the government assistance would be for what I … Read more