There are now about 20,000 shops on Etsy selling face masks, CEO Josh Silverman told CNBC on Wednesday. “Our sellers are able to produce hundreds of thousands of masks per day,” Silverman said on “Closing Bell.” Etsy began to see “overwhelming demand” for masks from shoppers last […]
In the Seattle area, which was the original epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., new cases have dropped to about 350 a day with about 9% of all coronavirus tests coming back positive, White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said Wednesday. […]
“Organizations have to work. They have to deliver the outcomes for which they were intended,” Pompeo said. “We need to make sure that, not only the World Health Organization but every international organization that we take taxpayer money and give it to them for the […]
Millions of parents across the country are suddenly being forced to juggle full-time work, parenting and homeschooling, all while keeping their kids inside, away from their friends and hopefully sane. Extensive screen time is inevitable in many households, but Roblox has emerged as an alternative to the […]
The leader of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Wednesday he’s received death threats and racist insults while running the global efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “I can tell you personal attacks that have been going on for more than two, three months. […]
World Health Organization officials said they’re investigating several cases where pets, and even a tiger, appear to have been infected with the coronavirus by their human caretakers. “We’re aware of two dogs that have been infected in Hong Kong, a cat in Belgium and we’ve […]
Bernie Sanders wouldn’t let a heart attack stop him. In the end, an unseen enemy provided the final blow to his presidential campaign. The Vermont senator on Wednesday cited the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the globe as a decisive factor in dropping out the race […]
The WHO, the United Nations’ health agency, started sounding the alarm on the outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in mid-January, designating the now COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency on Jan. 30 when there were just 8,200 cases in 18 countries across the […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that the coronavirus outbreak could “stabilize” within weeks if the state maintains strict social distancing policies, even as he announced the highest daily death count yet and said life for New Yorkers will never be the same. “I […]
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 542, a lower tally than the 604 the day before, but the number of new cases pushed higher to 3,836 compared with a previous 3,039. The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on […]
