coronavirus response

After isolating for five days with mild COVID-19 symptoms, President Joe Biden said he was “feeling great” and credited vaccines, boosters and therapeutic treatments like Paxlovid for his swift recovery.

During a House select committee meeting Thursday, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx testified that radiologist and political commentator Dr. Scott Atlas pushed former President Trump to enact ‘dangerous’ pandemic policies.

Dr. Deborah Birx, former coronavirus response coordinator for the Trump Administration, testified Thursday before a congressional committee about early missteps in the pandemic. “Creating the sense among the American people that [COVID-19] would… have the fatalities equivalent to flu created a sense among the American people that this was not going to be a serious pandemic.”

President Joe Biden detailed Thursday his administration’s efforts to double its procurement of rapid COVID-19 tests and make high-quality masks available for free as coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide.

The CDC released guidelines on Friday recommending that K-12 schools continue to require face masks for the 2021-2022 school year.

President Joe Biden has highlighted how the United States has administered 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine before his first 100 days in office.

The United States reached a milestone in its efforts to combat the coronavirus, with one in four American adults now fully vaccinated.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez spoke in favor of the House’s coronavirus relief package on Friday. Suarez also criticized the support many U.S. cities received in previous aid packages, saying, “Many of them had very, very bad experiences in terms of receiving the full allotment that they should have received based on their population.”

Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House coronavirus response team, said on Monday that the accessibility of vaccines would continue to grow in coming weeks as they address backlogs with a new continuous roll-out system, saying, “We are focused on this every hour of every day.”

The Biden administration is kicking off an aggressive agenda on its first full day. Biden will sign ten new executive orders on COVID-19 as part of his national strategy to expand emergency relief, increase vaccinations and testing rates, reopen schools and address inequities.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Friday announced a statewide two-week “freeze” which will limit restaurants and bars to take-out only and close gyms, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities during that period. The freeze will be in effect from Nov. 18 through Dec. 2 and aims to limit group activities and slow the spread of COVID-19. The state is experiencing a…

During a congressional hearing on the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on whether coronavirus precautions have been encouraged and followed during President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies.

President Trump is taking heat for telling an interviewer that the rising death toll from COVID-19 “is what it is,” in an interview with Axios on HBO. “They are dying, that’s true. And it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can,” he says.

During a congressional hearing on the coronavirus response on Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci dispelled some of the misinformation spread online by politicians and fringe groups about the virus.

When asked about his call to try to delay the election, President Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims that mail-in voting leads to increased instances of voter fraud.

Vice President Mike Pence met briefly Saturday with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic while he visited the famous island getaway of Nantucket to headline a fundraiser for President Donald Trump administration’s reelection campaign.

At a roundtable with President Trump on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar advocated to reopen schools by citing social distancing, good hygiene and face masks as necessary and sufficient precautions to keep students and teachers healthy.

At a roundtable meetings about reopening schools, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. response to the coronavirus in limiting the number of Americans who have died, saying, “We saved of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives… we’re at [130,000 deaths] and we could be at way over a million right now and I think it could have been...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID and member of the White House coronavirus task force, addressed the growing number of virus cases across the U.S. Fauci urged Americans to do their part in stopping the spread, saying, “A risk for you is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part, innocently or inadvertently, of propagating...