President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has tested positive for Covid-19, and he isn’t the first sitting president to contract a highly contagious and potentially deadly virus in the middle of a pandemic. Former President Woodrow Wilson became ill with the 1918 flu when he was in Paris in April 1919 organizing a peace treaty
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, February 26, 2020. Amanda Voisard | Reuters Allowing the coronavirus to circulate through the U.S. population unchecked in an effort to achieve herd immunity is not the government’s plan, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said, despite
A United Airlines plane takes off above American Airlines planes on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on October 1, 2020. Mario Tama | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday asked airlines to hold off on tens of thousands of job cuts that started this week, vowing additional aid for the battered sector,
President Trump traveled to Bedminster, New Jersey for a roundtable event with supporters and a fundraising event. Drew Angerer | Getty Images The coronavirus works to infect all it can, world leaders included. President Donald Trump announced early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said the
Shoppers walk through The Mall at Short Hills shopping center on Black Friday in Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Black Friday has been losing its clout for years. The coronavirus pandemic could be what finishes it. The one-day event of doorbuster deals, packed mall
The Key Auto Mall car dealership in Moline, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Fiat Chrysler and General Motor’s auto sales fell in the third quarter, but both automakers saw a significant rebound in demand from the second quarter when the pandemic wreaked havoc on the industry. Fiat Chrysler’s sales fell 10% from a year
Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla sent a memo to employees Thursday criticizing this weeks U.S. presidential debate as “disappointing,” saying the political rhetoric surrounding the outbreak and vaccine development is “undercutting public confidence.” “Once more, I was disappointed that the prevention for a deadly disease was discussed in political terms rather than scientific facts,” he wrote.
Luke Hutchison said he signed up to a coronavirus vaccine trial because he’s “pro science” Luke Hutchison Luke Hutchison woke up in the middle of the night with chills and a fever after taking the Covid-19 booster shot in Moderna’s vaccine trial. Another coronavirus vaccine trial participant, testing Pfizer’s candidate, similarly woke up with chills, shaking so
An airline employee walks past empty American Airlines check-in terminals at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on May 12, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | Getty Images American Airlines and United Airlines will start furloughing more than 32,000 employees on Thursday after talks for a national coronavirus aid package failed in Washington, but both carriers say they
When o.d.o. by Odo reopens its dining room for the first time in more than six months on Wednesday evening, the 14-seat chef’s counter that helped create its intimate atmosphere will be empty. Instead, up to eight diners will sit in a private dining room after getting their temperatures checked to enjoy a prix fixe
A member of a ground crew walks past American Airlines planes parked at the gate during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2020. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The Treasury Department on Tuesday said airlines could receive larger federal loans than previously expected after some carriers opted
Nikola Motor Company Badger pickup truck Source: Nikola Motor Company General Motors and Nikola are not expected to finalize a $2 billion deal scheduled to close before Wednesday after allegations of fraud and sexual abuse surfaced against the embattled start-up’s founder and former executive chairman, Trevor Milton, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. Executives at both companies
Time Square, New York, April 8, 2016, Times Square is a major landmark of New York, brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements. William Rodrigues dos Santos Harrison Chapman gave his girlfriend tickets to see “West Side Story” last December, thinking he had delivered the perfect Christmas present. However, two weeks before they were set to
This photo taken on February 20, 2020 shows doctors looking at a lung CT image at a hospital in Yunmeng county, Xiaogan city, in China’s central Hubei province. STR | AFP | Getty Images It started as a seemingly perplexing case of pneumonia. From a wet market in Wuhan, China, Covid-19 has spread to nearly
A municipal worker sanitizes a Roman Catholic Church graveyard after the burial of Covid-19 coronavirus infected people in Ranchi on September 6, 2020. AFP | Getty Images The coronavirus has killed at least 1 million people across the globe, a nightmarish milestone in the world’s fight against the virus that emerged from Wuhan, China, late
Students loaded onto a school bus outside Carlton High School at the end of the first day of class on Tuesday. Carlton High School held their day of school in-person on Tuesday September 8, 2020. Alex Kormann | Star Tribune | Getty Images The coronavirus infection rate among adolescents between the ages of 12 and
Shoppers stand in line to enter a Foot Locker Inc. store at the Queens Center shopping mall in the Queens borough of New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Peter Foley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dividends and buyback programs are slowly returning, but for some companies, the reinstatement of capital return plans follows
LONDON — When Allbirds founders Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger launched the footwear brand in 2016, they wanted to make a simple-looking shoe that was logo-free. They started with a sneaker that had a wool upper, and ads claimed they were the “world’s most comfortable” shoes. Their sneakers soon became the go-to footwear of Silicon
SINGAPORE — Airlines will need to meet a “harmonized” standard of health measures as air travel returns following the global pandemic, according to the CEO of Etihad Airways. “I can see that wellness certification will become a necessary function of how the whole of the world comes back to flying,” Tony Douglas told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble
Cruise stocks are climbing. Shares of Carnival, Royal Caribbean Group and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings surged Friday after Barclays analysts upgraded all three stocks to overweight from equal weight, saying the group was “nearing an inflection point.” The firm cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s upcoming announcement regarding the end of its no-sail