U.S. oil prices plunged Friday after China reported its gross domestic product shrank for the first time since recordkeeping began in 1992 as the economy was shut down to slow the spread of COVID-19.West Texas Intermediate crude oil for May delivery tumbled by as much as 9.26 percent to $18.03 a barrel, its lowest since October…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.COVID-19 has been "contained and effectively suppressed" in the population at large in Ireland, the country’s chief medical officer said Thursday.Dr. Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer at the Department of Health, said health officials are “increasingly confident” the coronavirus…
Published: Apr 16th, 2020 - 8:29pm (EDT)Updated: Apr 16th, 2020 - 8:30pm (EDT)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —Is it safe to open mail and packages during the pandemic?There is no evidence that COVID-19 is spreading through mail or parcels, according to the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Most of it is spread from…
Less than a month after returning from a Brooklyn beer festival, Daniel Bisset Jr. lay near death in a medically induced coma, unaware the virus that put him there had claimed his fathers life and sent his mother to the same Geisinger intensive care unit. Li…