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CDC Acknowledges Airborne Transmission Of Coronavirus After Deleting Guidance

[Forbes, Getty Images] TOPLINE The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines Monday to say coronavirus can spread from airborne transmission over a distance greater than six feet, and from exposure to tiny droplets and particles known as aerosols that can remain in the air for minutes […]

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Sources: New England Patriots QB Cam Newton tests positive for COVID-19

[ESPN] FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton has tested positive for the coronavirus and is out for the team’s Week 4 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Field Yates. “Late last night, we received notice that a Patriots player tested positive for COVID-19. The player […]

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President Trump Has Been Treated With an Experimental COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail. What’s That?

[Time, Getty Images] U.S. President Donald Trump has received a promising but experimental COVID-19 drug still in clinical trials, according to a White House statement released Friday afternoon, following his diagnosis with the disease. Sean Conley, the President’s personal physician, wrote in a memo that he treated Trump with an […]

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Trump to be hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center

(CNN) President Donald Trump will be hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and remain there for several days, the White House said Friday afternoon. The development came roughly 15 hours after Trump disclosed he had tested positive for the virus. Trump was due to be flown aboard his Marine […]

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President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19

(CNN) President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus, the President announced early Friday morning, an extraordinary development coming months into a global pandemic and in the final stretch of his reelection campaign. The diagnosis amounts to the most serious known health threat to a sitting […]

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Steelers-Titans postponed after positive COVID-19 tests in Tennessee

[ESPN] Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans has been postponed to either Monday or Tuesday. The NFL said in a statement Wednesday that a new game date and time will be announced as soon as possible, adding that the postponement will “allow additional time for further daily COVID-19 testing and to […]

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Signs of an ‘October vaccine surprise’ alarm scientists

[NBC NEWS, AP] Such a move could further erode public trust in a vaccine and foist an unsafe shot on Americans. President Donald Trump, who seems intent on announcing a Covid-19 vaccine before Election Day, could legally authorize a0 vaccine over the objections of experts, officials at the Food and Drug Administration and even vaccine manufacturers, […]

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