The White House and Senate leaders of both parties announced agreement early Wednesday on unprecedented emergency legislation to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. The urgently needed pandemic response measure is the largest economic rescue measure in history and is...
Grim Find: Bodies of Virus Victims in Spanish Nursing Homes
MADRID — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday. Defense Minister Margarita Robles said the elderly residents were “completely left to fend for themselves, or...
With Isolation, Abuse Activists Fear an 'Explosive Cocktail'
“Safer at Home.” It's a slogan of choice for the mandatory confinement measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. But it's not true for everyone. As the world's families hunker down, there's another danger, less obvious but just as insidious, that worries advocates and officials: a potential spike...
Sheriff Says Gun Shops Not Essential, Must Close
Gun shops are not essential businesses and must stop selling to the public, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said on Tuesday. It was a move that enraged Second Amendment advocates who said they planned to challenge it in court. Los Angeles, the nation’s largest county with 10 million residents,...
Trump Agencies Steadily Push Rollbacks as Pandemic Rages
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is rejecting appeals to slow its deregulatory drive while Americans grapple with the coronavirus, pushing major public health and environmental rollbacks closer to enactment in recent days despite the pandemic. As Americans stockpiled food and medicine and retreated indoors and businesses shuttered in hopes of riding out COVID-19,...
School Meal Updates for Fresno And Madera Unifieds During COVID-19 Closures
Fresno Unified is adding Birney Elementary School in central Fresno to the school sites where the community can pick up breakfasts and lunches, district spokeswoman Amy Idsvoog said Tuesday. Birney will be the district's 19th school site for school meals starting Wednesday, she said. Fresno and other school districts in...
COVID-19 Response: Fresno to Limit Access to Parks
The city of Fresno announced it will limit access to city parks starting on Wednesday, by closing down park parking lots. The goal is to promote social distancing in response to the COVID-19 crisis. "We remind everyone that it’s important for all of us to change our behaviors and keep...
Tuolumne County Company Builds Machines That Help Produce Coronavirus Test Kits
[aggregation-styles] The Union Democrat A company in Tuolumne County is building machines that will help in the global battle against COVID-19 and looking to hire more local people with mechanical expertise. Ted Meigs, president and co-founder of Kinematic Automation near Soulsbyville, said he was recently contacted by Hologic Inc., a...
Virus Skeptic Musk Donates Ventilators in What Governor Calls ‘Heroic Effort’
[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg SubscriptionElon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and an outspoken skeptic of the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, donated more than 1,000 ventilators to officials in Los Angeles to meet demand as the pandemic becomes more severe. The billionaire said in a tweet he helped acquire...
Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine: What to Know About the Potential Coronavirus Drugs
[aggregation-styles] CNN As the world's heath experts race to find treatments -- and eventually, a cure -- for the novel coronavirus, two drugs have jumped to the front of the conversation: chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. President Donald Trump has called the drugs, which are used to treat malaria and other conditions,...