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The Margin Published: July 1, 2020 at 12:12 a.m. ET Fauci says the emergent flu is not ‘an immediate threat,’ but ‘it’s something we need to keep our eye on’ What is G4 EA H1N1? An emerging influenza. Bloomberg News An emergent strain of flu in China is attracting the attention of scientists just as…

Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), speaks during a U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to bring it…

Coronavirus EL PASO, Texas -- As the week drew to a close on Saturday, El Paso had posted nearly 1,000 new coronavirus cases in that span, set a record for hospitalizations and saw its death toll grow to 127. Newly released health department data Saturday morning reflected 113 new daily cases and one additional death.…

The Trump administration has highlighted an apparent disconnect between rising cases and declining mortality as proof the Covid-19 pandemic is under control.“Fatalities are declining all across the country,” Vice President Mike Pence said at a coronavirus task-force briefing in Washington on Friday. He called the rise in new cases in people under 35 “very encouraging…

What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases?In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’” that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.Many public health experts, however, suggest it’s no time to celebrate. About 120,000…