coronavirus

Broadway can’t go on with the shows just yet. The Great White Way productions were initially expected to resume during the week of April 13, however, on Wednesday the Broadway League announced that theaters will remain dark through June 7 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage New York City. The decision was made in …

Lisa Vanderpump is heartbroken over the toll that the coronavirus has taken on her businesses. The restauranteur and reality star, 59, owns four establishments in Los Angeles, Villa Blanca, SUR, PUMP and TomTom. She runs TomTom alongside “Vanderpump Rules” cast members Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval. “It’s been devastating,” Vanderpump told Andy Cohen on Tuesday …

The Covid-19 pandemic is taking a bite out of McDonald’s bottom line. Comparable sales at the fast-food giant tumbled 22 percent last month as the coronavirus forced it to close dining rooms worldwide, the company said Wednesday. McDonald’s US stores were down 13.4 percent in March compared with an 8.1 percent increase for the first …

Television may start looking a bit too familiar. Networks, hamstrung by the inability to shoot new TV shows, may turn to reruns to fill programming slots. With no sense of when quarantine measures will lift amid the global coronavirus crisis, the big four networks, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, are mulling how to fill the …

Amazon is suspending shipping on non-Amazon packages as it struggles to keep up with customer orders during the coronavirus pandemic. The test program, known as Amazon Shipping, will be paused in June because the e-commerce juggernaut needs to shift its workers toward fulfilling its own orders, the Wall Street Journal reported. “We regularly look at …

Netflix may not have a cure for the coronavirus, but it has a fix for roommates who screw up your “continue watching” queue. The streaming service this week introduced PIN-protected profiles, as millions of roommates and couples in the US approach their second month of quarantine. Putting a PIN on an account profile can prevent …

These “fake” TV doctors and nurses are offering up a salute to their real-world counterparts on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday night, actress Olivia Wilde — who played Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley on the 2004-2012 show “House” — released a four-minute Instagram video featuring more than a dozen …

“Good Morning America” is mourning the loss of a beloved cameraman. Robin Roberts announced on Wednesday that studio camera operator Tony Greer died following complications due to coronavirus. “He was such a bright light working at our studio for more than six years,” she said. “You could just feel Tony’s beautiful spirit, you could feel …

Americans reported bipartisan distrust of the Chinese government’s public statements about the coronavirus pandemic as well as support for reinstating tariffs on Chinese goods in certain circumstances, according to a new Harris poll. Ninety percent of Republican respondents said that China was to blame for the spread of the coronavirus, and 67 percent of Democrats …

The researchers behind the University of Washington’s widely cited coronavirus model updated their projections for the second time this week, with death projections falling over 35 percent since Sunday and the U.S. peak moved to April 11. Death projections in the IHME model, which was used by the White House to inform a warning that …