coronavirus

With lawmakers scrambling to pass a new coronavirus stimulus bill as enhanced unemployment benefits expire on Friday, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is pushing to repeal the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deductions that primarily benefit high earners in states with high taxes. The debate over money for state and …

Coco Austin’s dad, Steve Austin, has permanent lung damage after battling COVID-19. “Now he’s home, but his lungs are damaged indefinitely,” Coco’s husband, Ice-T, told Jimmy Fallon on Thursday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.” “COVID attacks your lungs, and it can really leave your lungs ruined.” The rapper, 62, also shared that his father-in-law was …

MLB’s coronavirus problem is spreading quickly. The Brewers-Cardinals game Friday night has been postponed, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed. The Cardinals had positive tests and are self-isolating at their hotel. SportsGrid is reporting that it is two positive tests. The Marlins have had 17 players test positive, while the Phillies have had a coach and …

The feds will give Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to churn out a coronavirus vaccine in the Trump administration’s latest and largest bet on an experimental inoculation. More than half the award announced Friday will help the European drugmakers develop and test their vaccine, while the rest will be used to support manufacturing …

Facebook’s stock price soared in premarket trading Friday as Wall Street cheered its resilient revenue growth despite the coronavirus pandemic and an advertising boycott. Facebook shares had climbed about 6.6 percent to $250.09 by 7:15 a.m. after it reported more than $18.6 billion in second-quarter revenues Thursday, an 11 percent jump from the same period …

He’s urging you tread … maskedly. Bryan Cranston has revealed that he bested a case of COVID-19, writing on Instagram that “I was pretty strict in adhering to the protocols and still… I contracted the virus. Yep. it sounds daunting now that over 150,000 Americans are dead because of it. I was one of the …

EXCLUSIVE: Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix have teamed up with “Cowspiracy” filmmaker Keegan Kuhn and BAFTA Award-winning director Alex Lockwood, to executive produce, “The End of Medicine,” a new feature-length documentary about zoonotic diseases, which threaten the health and lives of the entire human population. The doc began production in October 2019, months before Covid-19 was making …

Johnson & Johnson kicked off human trials of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, after the shots already proved successful in protecting monkeys, the drugmaker announced. Company honchos pointed to a new study which found that five out of six primates who got the single-dose shot were protected from infection when exposed to the coronavirus, as …

EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Emily Mortimer, Rosie Perez and Debra Winger are among the all-star cast of innovative feature “With/In,” a made-at-home anthology film revolving around themes of confinement and isolation. Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s newly rebranded Maven Screen Media (“American Honey”) is in production …

The Phillies might not have escaped the Marlins’ COVID-19 web after all. A Phillies coach and a member of their home clubhouse staff have both tested positive for the virus, the club announced Thursday. No players were found to be positive in Wednesday’s latest round of testing, but the two cases forced the team to …