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The next coronavirus stimulus package tops the agenda for congressional lawmakers trying to negotiate thorny issues like joblessness, state financial assistance and business liability.
Profits look stronger for medical device makers. In other research news: Does the flu linger in the air, too?
British pharmaceutical company Synairgen says its nebulizer treatment produced a 79% lower risk of COVID-19 patients developing a severe form of the disease than those given a placebo in initial trials. Other drug trial news related to hydroxychloroquine is also reported.
“I don’t believe in this story at all, there is no sense in it,” Andrey Kelin, Russia's ambassador to Britain, told the BBC of claims from the U.S., Britain and Canada that Russian hackers are targeting coronavirus treatment and vaccine research.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that HHS' payment cuts to hospitals' off-site outpatient departments were legal. The D.C. court also upheld the Trump administration's controversial expansion of short-term, limited-duration health plans.
Postponed because of the COVID crisis, audits of health care providers' Medicare claims will resume.
Amazon is opening primary-care clinics for some employees; and in a grab bag of health industry news, lawsuits and delayed leadership changes.
"He's a little bit of an alarmist -- that's OK," President Donald Trump said of his top infectious disease expert. Despite recent criticisms from a few fellow administration officials, Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to urge Americans to take more precautions to stem the coronavirus outbreak.
In a wide-ranging Fox News interview, President Donald Trump continued to blame testing as to why the U.S. leads the world in coronavirus stats. "Many of those cases shouldn't even be cases," he said. He also said he'd leave the decision on mask mandates to state governors.
COVID news from Florida, California, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Ohio and Louisiana.
Over 140,000, or a quarter of the total COVID-19 deaths, were in the U.S. Case counts continue to accelerate to record or near-record levels in California, Florida and Kentucky.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages focus on the controversy around mask wearing and other public health issues.
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health issues and others.
Pandemic news from across the globe with a little bit of good news thrown in.
In other state news: New York cracks down on alcohol sales; Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf cuts funding to county that defied shutdown orders; Missouri will spend $15 million in coronavirus relief funds on promoting tourism; and more.
Pandemic-related nursing home news from Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
New research finds evidence that racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. have experienced increased incidents of discrimination during the pandemic. Other examples of race-based disparities in the health system are also reported.
The previous order was set to expire next week on July 24. Other public health news on church-related illnesses, a rapid decline and death toll, a double pandemic threat, the NCAA's guide for college sports and more.
Officials raise concerns that hospitals may hit a breaking point if the trajectory of ever-growing caseloads doesn’t change. Plus, a look at the effect of the coronavirus surge on hospitals in Georgia and school nurses in Texas.
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