June 23, 2020Updated 7:31 p.m. ETPHOENIX — An Arizona megachurch hosting President Trump on Tuesday misleadingly claimed that its new air purification system “kills 99.9 percent of Covid within 10 minutes” but then backtracked shortly before the president spoke.Mr. Trump visited Dream City Church in Phoenix, one of the nation’s biggest megachurches, to speak to…
President Donald Trump held his first campaign rally ahead of the 2020 US elections in Tulsa on 20 June.Despite much hype around the rally, supporters failed to fill the 19 000-seat arena.In a speech of nearly two hours, Trump highlighted his administration's success in curbing the spread of the coronavirus.US President Donald Trump returned Saturday…
Since the first reports of a "rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals" were published in 1981, the condition we've come to know as HIV/AIDS has killed millions of people around the globe.While the diagnosis was initially a death sentence, treatments like protease inhibitors have lengthened the lifespans of people with HIV by decades. The once…
In a meeting last month with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar — who is overseeing the effort called Operation Warp Speed, along with Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper — Trump pushed Azar repeatedly to speed up the already unprecedented timeline, according to two senior White House officials familiar with the meeting who spoke…
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Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage son downstairs in their kitchen struggling to breathe. He had rolled his wheelchair to the oven to keep himself warm as he tried to regulate his temperature, she recalled, and was drenched in sweat from an apparent infection. In that moment
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Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I