coronavirus

The Los Angeles Times, claiming “advertising revenue has been nearly eliminated” because of the coronavirus, said it will furlough business-side employees and slash pay for senior executives by 5 percent to 15 percent. The furloughs are slated to start April 19 and will last up to 16 weeks, according to a memo from the newspaper’s …

An Amazon operations manager became the first known employee of the e-commerce giant to die of the coronavirus, according to new reports. Gerard Tuzara, 35, who worked at Amazon’s DLA8 facility in Hawthorne, California, died of the illness late last month, the Sun reported. Amazon first confirmed the death in an email to Business Insider. …

Only a steady, dedicated effort can transform the World Health Organization into a force for good. Somebody had to say it. Speaking at a press briefing on April 7, President Trump chastised the World Health Organization (WHO) for having “really called, I would say, every aspect of it [the coronavirus] wrong.” Trump went further Tuesday …

The Wuhan coronavirus had infected over 2 million people worldwide as of Wednesday morning, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The worldwide death count has surpassed 128,000, while more than 500,000 people have recovered. The U.S. accounts for approximately 30 percent of global cases with more than 609,000 nationwide. Across the country, …

U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating whether the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the nation’s most senior military officer, told reporters at the Pentagon the initial assessments indicate the coronavirus causing the global pandemic appears to …

Coronavirus testing declined more than 30 percent over the last week despite rising infection rates in many localities and the Trump administration’s efforts to increase testing across the country. Commercial labs in the U.S., which only recently were overwhelmed with samples to test, are now waiting on new samples as testing capacity goes unused, Politico …

Senator Susan Collins walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2017. Senator Susan Collins is taking issue with President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling it “very uneven” as she struggles to maintain approval in her home state of Maine ahead of her reelection bid this November. “It’s …

A man passes by a billboard depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping as the spread of the coronavirus continues in Belgrade, Serbia, April 1, 2020. Documents reveal that Chinese President Xi Jinping waited six days to publicly warn about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, after his top officials determined that the situation was “likely to develop into …

Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan has spent a decade preparing his megabank for the next financial crisis, but he still wasn’t fully prepared for the coronavirus pandemic. On a Tuesday morning call with reporters discussing first-quarter results, the chief executive said his $2.3 trillion bank is ready to weather the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, but …

Debt-strapped Le Pain Quotidien was working to shrink its US presence even before the coronavirus pandemic battered its business, The Post has learned. The Belgian bakery’s website says says it “temporarily closed” all its US outlets last month “out of an abundance of caution” due to the crisis. In reality, sources say, the struggling restaurant …