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Top health officials denied on Wednesday that political appointees are meddling with CDC’s weekly scientific reports on coronavirus.

Five Connecticut residents became ill with infections caused by a “flesh-eating bacteria” in the Long Island Sound over the summer, health officials said.

Planned Parenthood uses abortion as part of a “black genocide” project, billionaire fashion mogul and gospel rapper Kanye West said in an interview with actor and Masked Singer host Nick Cannon on his eponymous series, “Cannon’s Class.”

W.H.O. officials did an about-face Thursday on the agency’s coronavirus testing guidelines, proclaiming that broad-based population tests are “not really that useful.”

Rep. Steve Scalise (D-LA) said New York families who had loved ones die from coronavirus are contacting his office for help obtaining information from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) related to nursing home deaths.

Mental health disorders linked to the lockdowns are disproportionately plaguing minorities and young adults in the U.S., CDC reports.

A CDC survery confirmed that lockdown orders exacerbated drug abuse problems and “adverse” mental health disorders among U.S. adults.

The U.S. reported nearly 49,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, marking the lowest single-day number of infections in four weeks.

U.S. hospitals have a “perverse” monetary “incentive” to increase their count of coronavirus fatalities, the CDC chief suggests.

Robert Redfield of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) testified on Friday that this fall, the United States must reopen schools that were shut down to stem the coronavirus spread because failing to do so would be detrimental and even deadly for the development and health of students K thru 12.

A fight reportedly broke out amongst a group of people at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Friday in Hollywood, Florida.

A parasite linked to bagged salad mixes has sickened 641 people in 11 states, federal health officials said Friday.

The director of the CDC tweeted Friday that it is “critically important for public health to open schools this fall.”

The total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in California, standing at nearly 425,600 as of Thursday evening, exceeded cumulative infections in any other state, including in fellow Democrat-run New York, once the epicenter of the pandemic, according to several tallies analyzed by Breitbart News.

President Trump’s border controls have kept at least 88,100 illegal aliens from entering the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border since late March, newly released figures reveal. 

Dr. Scott Barbour said some people who avoided hospitals due to COVID-19 fears now have permanent damage because of delayed treatment.

A physician and MN senator said he is under investigation by his state medical board for his criticism of CDC guidelines for classifying coronavirus deaths.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), angered by the Trump administration’s requirement that hospitals bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and report coronavirus data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said that hospitals should tell the president to “GO TO HELL.”

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Tuesday that a universal masking policy could bring the coronavirus epidemic “under control” in four to eight weeks, just one day after stating that cloth masks “may” help reduce the spread of the virus.

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Monday said a cloth mask “may” help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but he did not release a definitive statement on its purported effectiveness.

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdowns disrupted pediatric outpatient visits and routine childhood vaccinations in the United States, leaving children and their communities vulnerable to potential outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, top health officials testified on Thursday.

Environmental groups pressured states to resume taxing single-use plastic bags, claiming reusable bags will not spread COVID-19.

The number of new Chinese coronavirus cases in the United States could reach 100,000 a day if the country fails to turn things around, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, predicted while testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday.

A significant number of states will reopen their colleges and universities by the fall, while K-12 schools will follow suit on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, the nation’s top disease official told lawmakers this week.

Andrew Cuomo neglected to use assets made available to him by Donald Trump as part of New York’s coronavirus response, explained Seema Verma.

States experiencing growing novel coronavirus outbreaks may need to pause or roll back their reopening stages without necessarily reimposing an “absolute shutdown,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, told a House panel on Tuesday.

The United States is in a better position to deal with the spike in Chinese coronavirus cases plaguing several states, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield indicated this week.

Many media outlets manipulated information to cultivate public support for lockdowns during the coronavirus outbeak, said Gov. Kristi Noem.

Data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that the novel coronavirus’s true fatality rate in the United States, which takes into account mild and asymptomatic cases, stands at 0.26 percent, about eight to 15 times lower than earlier mortality rate estimates of between two and four percent, which prompted the lockdowns.

A woman is using her business to design and make masks with a “straw hole” specifically meant for sipping cocktails.

Carnival Cruise Lines was inundated with bookings after announcing it would return to the high seas starting in August after months of being on Chinese coronavirus lockdown.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar detailed Operation Warp Speed on Tuesday at the White House, a government effort to speed the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

The White House dismissed Monday a Centers for Disease Control document showing an estimate of 3,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus by June 1.

Over 1 million people across the globe have recovered from the Chinese coronavirus, according to data collected Thursday by Johns Hopkins University.

Autopsy results confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that the first American to die of the novel coronavirus illness perished on February 6, weeks earlier than initially believed.

A large number of protesters gathered outside the Ohio Statehouse again on Monday to make their voices heard during the press conference held by Gov. Mike DeWine, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, and Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton.