Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee are the latest states to restart their economies and ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The governor of Georgia said some businesses will be allowed to reopen as early as Friday, while South Carolina will permit some businesses to restart on Tuesday. Tennessee says businesses can open again next week. Texas became the … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took another swipe at Donald Trump on Saturday by channeling Abraham Lincoln saying there’s ‘no time for politics’ as he announced the state’s death rate has dropped to the lowest since April 1. Speaking in his daily press briefing, Cuomo said he had some ‘good news’ for New Yorkers as he … Read more
Americans have taken part in mass protests after President Donald Trump urged supporters to ‘liberate’ states from governors’ stringent coronavirus lockdowns. Demonstrators rallied in the streets waving huge USA flags and called for the country to reopen despite the pandemic ripping through the country. Thousands raced to the Florida coastline after Governor Ron DeSantis gave the … Read more
President Donald Trump urged supporters to ‘LIBERATE’ three states led by Democratic governors Friday, apparently encouraging the growing protests against the stay-at-home restrictions aimed at stopping the coronavirus. A day after laying out a roadmap to gradually reopen the crippled economy, Trump took to Twitter with the kind of rhetoric some of his supporters have … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump tells governors it is up to THEM when they open their states up – abandoning claim of ‘total authority’ to decide and unveiling three-phase ‘guidelines’ The White House released guidelines for reopening the country Trump holds a news conference at 6 pm EDT to discuss them One benchmark is a sustained … Read more
Spikes in fevers across the US predicted deaths from the novel coronavirus in most states just days beforehand. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. Of the 47 states that have experienced deaths from COVID-19, the disease … Read more
The director of the Centers for Disease Control said Monday that he did recommend in February some states expand mitigation efforts to combat the coronavirus spread, but lockdowns didn’t begin until March. Robert Redfield suggested on NBC’s Today that some recommendations by the CDC and National Institute of Health were ignored earlier on in the … Read more
As the majority of the US continue to see a decrease in fevers during the coronavirus pandemic, states in the West are seeing increases. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. One of the company’s maps, which tracks … Read more
Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a stern warning to states which think they will not be badly affected by coronavirus on Wednesday as he revealed the virus has claimed another 391 lives across the state of New York. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, the number of infections in New York State rose to 83,712 – an increase … Read more
Company creates social distancing ‘scoreboard’ that ranks states on their adherence to isolation rules by using GPS data collected from phones The maps made by Unacast show how well each state is doing using GPS data It judges locations based on reduction in distance traveled Wyoming had the worst score, an ‘F’, while Nevada scored … Read more