Federal government spent nearly $100B on pandemic readiness, health security in decade leading up to coronavirus crisis Over the past decade, the U.S. government spent nearly $100 billion on preparation for major health crises including pandemics, according to a 2018 paper in an academic journal. However, Washington and states across the country were scrambling to muster supplies and respond at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.
The U.S. is continuing its gradual reopening this week, with more than a dozen states easing strict lockdown measures that shuttered businesses and brought the daily lives of millions of Americans to a halt for more than a month.
Meanwhile, Wuhan, the Chinese city widely believed to be the epicenter of the coronavirus and that has since reopened, on Monday reported five new cases at a residential compound, according to Reuters.
Attorneys general for 18 states have signed a letter asking bipartisan leaders in both the House and the Senate to open hearings into China's role in the spread of the coronavirus, accusing the nation of "layers of deceit" in a cover-up of the severity of the virus while it "wreaked havoc" in the U.S.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's threat to sue a California county and move the electric-car maker's headquarters elsewhere over disputes on the coronavirus shutdown regulations should be a “wake-up” call for the Golden State’s leaders, a constitutional lawyer told “Fox & Friends.”
And a lawyer identified as “patient zero” in New York's Westchester County revealed in his first televised interview Monday that doctors who first examined him “made no mention” of the coronavirus that has since infected more than 335,000 people in the state.
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And there were several other developments: New York and New Jersey – the two states leading the U.S. death toll for COVID-19 – have protocols in place that allow health care workers who tend to the elderly to return to their jobs just seven days after testing positive, even without a second test to ensure the infection had cleared. A three-drug combination - interferon beta-1b, lopinavir–ritonavir and ribavirin - appears to alleviate coronavirus symptoms and shorten the duration of hospital stays, according to a new study. A coronavirus outbreak at a federal prison resulted in 423 new cases on Sunday and the highest single-day record in the North Texas county where the facility is located. The new cases, as well as others, bumped up Tarrant County’s total to 3,695 cases. A new study suggests COVID-19 can also be transmitted through the eyes from the ACE-2 protein. A group of crew members aboard Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas ship reportedly staged a hunger strike until the cruise line confirmed they would be repatriated. The workers have allegedly been stuck at sea for almost two months because of the chaos the coronavirus pandemic caused in the cruise line industry. |
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