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Chinese Drug Traffickers Have a Brand-New Product: Knockoff N95 Masks for Coronavirus
“They're supplying them through the same exact supply chain, through the same exact marketing mechanisms, that they have with illicit drugs for a long time.”
Coronavirus Just Crossed a Grim Global Milestone: 1 Million Cases
The new coronavirus, which erupted four months ago in Wuhan, China, has ground vast swathes of the global economy to a halt and claimed over 51,000 lives.
Trump Won't Give Porn Stars Coronavirus Bailout Money
The Small Business Administration loan application specifically bans anyone engaged in “live performances of a prurient sexual nature,” along with weed dispensaries, casinos, lobbyists, and members of Congress.
Alabama and Massachusetts Are Handing the Addresses of People With Coronavirus Over to Police
Privacy advocates say it won't protect first responders and it exposes the sick to privacy violations.
As Coronavirus Spreads In Venezuela, Some Hospitals Don’t Have Soap. Or Sinks.
“My fear is that we won’t have supplies next week, when cases are expected to spike,” said Maria Eugenia Landaeta, Caracas University’s head of infectious diseases.
The Cost of Ventilators Just Skyrocketed — And New York Needs Thousands More
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the price of ventilators has soared from less than $20,000 to more than $50,000.
Here's How China Is Rewriting the History of the Coronavirus Pandemic to Make Itself the Hero
The Chinese government has waged a months-long disinformation campaign to portray itself as the country that defeated the virus, when it attempted to hide it for months.
China Is Making Tons of PPE Respirators Good Enough for Asia and Europe. But U.S. Hospitals Can't Buy Them.
Fear of lawsuits and red tape are keeping them out of the hands of American frontline medical workers.
100 People Died of Coronavirus in New York in One Day
There are currently 1,290 people in the intensive care unit, meaning they're hooked up to ventilators — a device that’s in short supply in New York.
The White House Now Wants Everyone Who's Visited New York City to Self-Quarantine
Roughly 1 in 1,000 people in and around the city are infected with the coronavirus, White House officials said, warning that those who leave the city risk seeding the infection in new places.
Coronavirus Is Spreading Through America’s Prisons and No One Is Ready
“Whatever gets in here starts spreading, and everyone gets it.”