coronavirus

Seth Rogen is loving self-quarantining. Appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Thursday the “Knocked Up” actor admitted that he’s having no problems being holed up. “We are not all in this together because this has not been that bad for me,” he confessed to Kimmel. “I have kind of been self-isolating since 2009.” Wearing an …

The Chinese Communist Party has revised its reported death count in Wuhan by exactly 50 percent, an attempt to improve the “credibility of the government” as residents and experts have warned the actual count is far higher that what’s been previously reported. In an interview Friday with the Xinhua state news agency, officials pointed to …

China’s economy contracted for the first time in decades as the coronavirus outbreak ravaged the country and economic activity ground to a halt. Gross domestic product was down 6.8 percent from the same time during the previous year, according to data released Friday by China’s National Bureau of Statistics. The contraction was slightly more exaggerated than …

Contemporary artist WhIsBe has teamed up with friends at a Brooklyn-based 3D printing company to manufacture thousands of face shields for healthcare heroes working to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “It makes me happy to be part of [the art] community and help people out,” WhIsBe, known for his popular Vandal Gummy artwork, told Page Six …

US stocks surged early Friday as Wall Street cheered a promising coronavirus treatment as well as President Trump’s push to reopen the US economy. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped as much as 612.52 points, or 2.6 percent, in early trading following a report that Gilead Sciences’ Ebola drug remdesivir is helping coronavirus patients recover …

Less than 50 percent of 25 large U.S. companies surveyed said that decoupling from China would be “impossible,” a 22 point reduction from a similar survey conducted last October, amid growing concerns over reliance on Chinese manufacturing following the coronavirus pandemic. The American Chamber of Commerce in China and the American Chamber of Commerce in …

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, will be released from prison due to fears about a coronavirus outbreak among inmates and prison staff members. Cohen is currently serving a three-year sentence at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., where 14 inmates and seven staff members have tested positive for the virus. The federal …

A scientist at a medicines company performs research for a coronavirus vaccine at a laboratory in San Diego, Calif., U.S., March 17, 2020. A clinical trial of a potential antiviral treatment for the coronavirus is showing early signs of success: nearly all the coronavirus patients in the trial were discharged in less than a week …

A Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician leaves from helping a man during the coronavirus outbreak in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 16, 2020. The U.S. coronavirus death toll reached 4,591 in 24 hours on Thursday, nearly doubling the previous single-day record, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The previous one-day peak came on Wednesday with …

Princess Sofia of Sweden started volunteering this week at a Stockholm hospital where she serves as the honorary chair amid the coronavirus pandemic. The princess, 35, is among 80 people a week who have completed the three-day emergency online training course from Sophiahemmet University created to help the hospital, which has been overwhelmed during the …