The Trump administration has abruptly changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile and put forward a narrower vision of the role the federal government’s repository of life-saving medicines and equipment should play in supplying states’ needs

A Russian military cargo plane bearing a load of urgently needed medical supplies landed in New York’s JFK airport this week

One of pop music’s biggest stars, Pink, said in tweets Friday night that she and her son had tested positive for the coronavirus. The Bucks County native tweeted that she would give to a health care fund in Philadelphia, where her mother worked for years.

The City of Miami Beach has mandated that all employees and customers of grocery stores, pharmacies and restaurants wear “a form of covering” over their nose and mouth at all times while indoors. The order is effective on April 7th.

Miami-Dade county will begin randomly screening residents for the novel coronavirus in order to survey the area’s estimated rate of infection, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced Friday.

Beginning Friday night, Miami-Dade County and University of Miami will begin calling 750 each week for the next four weeks to randomly test people in the county. This “surveillance” testing will be used to gauge how far the coronavirus has spread.

President Donald Trump said Friday his administration will try to stop “profiteers” from exporting medical protective gear, shortly after picking a fight with manufacturing giant 3M, a major producer and exporter of face masks used to protect health care workers from the coronavirus.

Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity’s website and phone lines have been flooded with hundreds of thousands of calls and tens of thousands of claims in recent weeks, after businesses throughout the state were forced to modify hours or temporarily close because of the coronavirus crisis.  Many of the people who suddenly found themselves unemployed reported having difficulty filing a...

The WNBA has postponed the start of its season because of the coronavirus pandemic

Hobby Lobby says the ongoing threat of the coronavirus has forced it to close its stores until further notice

People were seen waiting in lines outside Miami-Dade supermarkets Friday after the county’s mayor issued an order for stores to limit crowding inside their facilities. Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s order calls for essential commercial and retail establishments that provide unpackaged food for consumption to limit capacity and monitor entrances and exits. Gimenez also ordered to close of salad bars, self-serve...

If we’ve learned one thing so far during the coronavirus crisis, it’s that most scientists really do know what they’re talking about. They use models, inputting data like the number of known cases and deaths over time where the virus has already struck, to estimate when the nation or any state may see a wave of sick people headed...

Javier Jaimes is one of the most important people on the planet in 2020. He is not a world leader, first responder or healthcare worker, but he and the five main researchers at Cornell University in New York are some of the proverbial rock stars of our time. The group of scientists brought other studies to a halt in January…

Farmers across South Florida are hurting.  “We never thought we would see this in this great country of ours,” said Sam Accursio, president of Sam S. Accursio & Sons Farms.  Accursio sends squash, green beans, pickles and cucumbers to restaurants, but most of that has stopped since COVID-19. “That takes half of our produce that we ship out and...

Passengers from an ill-fated cruise are being allowed to touch dry land for the first time in weeks

President Donald Trump is resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. This is despite his administration’s projections that tens of thousands of Americans are likely to be killed by the disease.

More than a million people could swamp the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces in the coming months as employers lay off staff during the coronavirus pandemic

More than once, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that the federal stockpile of emergency medicine and supplies he inherited from his predecessor was an “empty shelf.” While the government does not publicize all of the contents of the repository, at the time Trump took office, the Strategic National Stockpile, as it is formally known, reportedly contained vast amounts of…

Applauding sailors chanting “Captain Cro-zier” gave their commanding officer a hero’s send-off from the USS Theodore Roosevelt Thursday after he was relieved of duty for warning about a coronavirus outbreak in a letter leaked to the press. Videos posted on Twitter showed hundreds of his supporters applauding Navy Capt. Brett Crozier as he waved to the crowd, walked down a...

All of a sudden, the one thing that we all need — and we didn’t know to stock up on — is fabric face masks. Here’s how to get or make one for yourself.

City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is the first person in Florida to become a COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor after recovering from the coronavirus. His donation will be used to help a critically ill coronavirus patient in the Sunshine State. Maria Mercedes said her father, who is currently in the hospital on a ventilator, initially had mild symptoms of the...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday announced new guidelines recommending the use of cloth materials and basic masks to cover faces. President Donald Trump made the announcement on Friday during a White House coronavirus task force briefing. Trump suggested that if people wanted to voluntarily cover their faces with cloth materials or basic masks, that...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ statewide stay-at-home order began early Friday, as Florida’s confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 10,000 and the state’s death toll from the virus rose sharply to 170. Florida’s total confirmed cases rose by more than 1,200 since Thursday to 10,268, according to figures released by the Florida Department of Health. The number includes 9,925 Florida residents and 343 non-residents….

In a shift, the top leaders in Congress made it clear Friday there will be another coronavirus rescue package as the stark need for more aid to fight the pandemic and resulting economic crisis is apparent

“So these are unprecedented times,” says the man in the middle of the computer screen, whose face is surrounded by several other faces, all logged in from their homes.  Unprecedented times call for extraordinary action.  The Jason Taylor Foundation moved its annual Louder Than a Bomb spoken-word poetry competition onto a virtual platform, using Zoom to connect the teenage...

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown daily life across the U.S. into chaos. Families suddenly losing loved ones cannot come together to mourn. Health care professionals are putting their lives at risk to treat the untreatable. And the leaders to whom we turn in times of crisis don’t have all the answers. One bit of good news is there is...

You’re staying home, doing your best to steer clear of coronavirus, but police say scammers are still after you. Rebecca Easley Li got a suspicious text on her phone last Tuesday, one urging her to tap a link. “It said ‘don’t drive until you’ve clicked on this message,’ so you know, everything about it sounded like a scam,” said...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Director of the state’s Division of Emergency Management are becoming more openly critical of 3M, a Minnesota-based company producing N95 masks, an all-important supply for doctors and nurses caring for COVID-19 patients.

A woman on Florida’s Treasure Coast was arrested for violating a order to stay quarantined and isolated at home amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the state. Stuart Police arrested 38-year-old Melissa Barton on Wednesday after she was walking in the downtown area of the city while being active on social media about having taken a test for the...

Hospitals across South Florida have become a battleground against the coronavirus pandemic – and many are now preparing for the possibility they may become the new epicenter in a few weeks. One of the hospitals treating the most patients is UM Jackson Memorial Hospital, where emergency room doctors says they’re ready for now after seeing an increase of patients with…

Stocks fell Friday following the latest grim reading of the coronavirus outbreak’s economic toll

A cruise ship carrying at least a dozen people who have tested positive for coronavirus won’t be allowed to dock in South Florida Saturday, officials said. Carnival Corp.’s Coral Princess had been expected to arrive at Port Everglades at some point Saturday but was refused permission to dock by the U.S. Coast Guard. The ship has more than 1,000...

The guidelines issued by federal and state agencies to stop the spread of coronavirus have included whether to wear a mask in public, how to maintain social distancing and what sheltering in place entails. But what do you do if you need to visit a doctor or take your child to the pediatrician for something unrelated to coronavirus?

World Health Organization officials cautioned Friday that more young people are becoming critically ill and dying from the coronavirus that’s now spread to almost every country across the world....
“We are seeing more and more younger individuals who are experiencing severe disease,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from...

Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel gave a nurse from St. George, Utah a sweet surprise on Thursday’s at-home edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!.”

The new coronavirus first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 has infected more than one million people and caused more than 55,000 deaths worldwide. The number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 surpassed 225,000. The number of the people infected in the U.S. surpassed a quarter-million and the death toll has climbed past 6,600. Those…

With coronavirus deaths surging in New York, the governor announced Friday he will use his authority to seize ventilators and protective gear from private hospitals and companies that aren’t using them, complaining that states are competing against each other for vital equipment in eBay-like bidding wars. “If they want to sue me for borrowing their excess ventilators to save...

As more and more people survive the new coronavirus, hospitals want them to line up to donate some blood

CNN’s daytime news host Brooke Baldwin says she’s tested positive for the coronavirus

Walt Disney Co. officials announced they’ll start furloughing some workers in two weeks at its theme parks resorts in Florida and California

This interactive map shows the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 around the world since late January. Health officials in China first announced they were treating dozens of cases of an unknown illness on Dec. 31 and reported the first known death from the new coronavirus on Jan. 11. The data used to compile this map comes from Johns…

This interactive map shows the spread of the new coronavirus around the United States since March 1, when there were about 100 cases confirmed around the country. Health officials in China first announced they were treating dozens of cases of an unknown illness on Dec. 31 and reported the first known death from the new coronavirus on Jan. 11. The…

Some call it a war zone. Others a nightmare. Others still refer to a “corridor of coughing,” where all they can hear is the hacking of people in various stages of respiratory arrest.

A crew member on Royal Caribbean’s Celebrity Infinity cruise ship has died, while two others on the Oasis of the Seas were evacuated for medical reasons, the company said Friday. The Miami-based cruise line didn’t give any other info on the crew members. As of Friday, the Infinity was waiting off Florida’s west coast, and the Oasis of the...

Twenty Broward Sheriff’s Office employees have tested positive for coronavirus and more are expected, Sheriff Gregory Tony said. The employees infected with COVID-19 include some firefighters, some law enforcement and some civilians, Tony said at a news conference Friday. “This is something that we know is a real threat to us,” Tony said. “We’re probably going to have more...

Before you put the latest round of groceries in your refrigerator, take a few minutes to disinfect all items. That’s the advice we heard from Dr. Warner Greene, a leading virologist and research scientist with the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. “Coronaviruses are, by their nature, ‘sticky’ viruses,” Dr. Greene said. “They can survive for a surprising period of...

Millions of small businesses are expected to apply for a desperately needed rescue loan Friday, a stern test for a banking industry that has had less than a week to prepare for the deluge. Small businesses will be seeking loans from the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program, which was put in place to help them retain workers and pay bills...

With COVID-19 testing sites up and running in parts of Broward and Miami-Dade County, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Florida is expected to increase in the coming days and weeks. The Florida Department of Health is keeping track of the numbers on their website, releasing the number of coronavirus cases by county and city as new data…

As more and more cases emerge, there is a growing and desperate need to not only adequately treat, but to find a cure for COVID-19. This is true particularly in New York, which is grappling with skyrocketing coronavirus cases. Due to the increase in numbers, New York is set to launch a clinical trial for an experimental drug treatment Tuesday,…

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has recorded an address to the nation and the Commonwealth about the coronavirus pandemic.

As the coronavirus outbreak shutters restaurants and stores across the United States, several companies have decided to offer discounts and deals to help alleviate the closures’ financial, emotional and technological costs on consumers, institutions and other businesses.

With many parts of the U.S. now almost a month into seemingly open-ended orders to stay at home, the initial novelty of moving life online has begun to wear off. That’s left parents to figure out how to incorporate digital learning, socializing and activity into already-packed schedules, according to NBC News.

The United States’ top infectious disease specialist is getting his own bobblehead

Passengers aboard two cruise ships that have had coronavirus cases and deaths have been given the green light to disembark at a Florida port

The Trump administration is formalizing new guidance to recommend that many Americans wear face coverings in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

Google has launched a new website that uses anonymous location data collected from users of Google products and services to show the level of social distancing taking place in various locations.

The Trump administration’s decision to let states chart their own responses to the coronavirus crisis rather than impose a national strategy will cost thousands of lives and is likely to result in an open-ended outbreak rolling across the country, a dozen public health experts told NBC News.

The Navy announced it has relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Reese Witherspoon wants teachers around the country to know how much she appreciates them.

President Donald Trump is resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. This is despite his administration’s projections that tens of thousands of Americans are likely to be killed by the disease.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is taking action to support health care workers in Massachusetts and New York amid the coronavirus crisis. Kraft purchased more than 1.7 million N95 masks and used the Patriots’ team plane to fly the critical supplies from China to Boston overnight in order to help hospitals in both states combat the ongoing, nationwide shortage…

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was released into house arrest on Thursday, over fears that his chronic asthma make him vulnerable to coronavirus, the musician’s lawyer said.

An Indianapolis man is sharing the heartbreaking story of how his family was directly impacted by the coronavirus to educate others about just how serious the current public health crisis is.

Without a clear idea of when its parks will be able to reopen, Disney announced plans to furlough non-union workers and stop collecting payments for its annual park passes.

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials told members of Congress earlier this week that the projected demand for ventilators required for coronavirus-stricken patients “outstrips the capacity” of the Strategic National Stockpile, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday.

Millions of small businesses are anxiously awaiting their slices of a $350 billion relief program that forms part of the government’s $2 trillion economic support package. However, with just hours to go before launch, it wasn’t until Thursday night that banks received their 31 pages of guidance from Treasury on how to lend the money — and some haven’t even...

A Detroit bus driver who had expressed anger on Facebook about a coughing passenger has died from COVID-19, officials said Thursday.

The Easter Bunny is essential.

Online classes are a sudden way of life for students across South Florida, but there can still be roadblocks for kids who have smart devices at home. 10-year-old Yermin Sanchez-Feliz has had trouble connecting to his virtual third grade class this week. Looking at icons on his school-issued tablet, he said, “We don’t know which one to click on.”...

The race to protect people against unwitting coronavirus carriers intensified Thursday as the total number of cases worldwide neared 1 million and Spain topped 10,000 deaths.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez asked President Donald Trump on Thursday to immediately suspend international and domestic flights from COVID-19 hot spots to Miami International Airport.

Meyers Leonard is joining other major sports icons pitching in to coronavirus charity, but he’s doing it in his own unique way. On Thursday, the Heat center announced he is embarking on a 24-hour live stream on ESPN Esports’ Twitch stream to raise money for coronavirus relief efforts. The “Hammer Classic,” set to begin at 1 p.m. ET on...

President Donald Trump argued with “PBS NewsHour” reporter Yamiche Alcindor over what the president had said, or hadn’t said, about New York’s need for ventilators.

In just the last month we’ve begun to see outbreak-related layoffs and widespread economic uncertainty as a result of COVID-19. For those now looking for work, here is a list of the companies hiring right now.

As the coronavirus stretches New York City emergency rooms and paramedics to their limits, a regional EMT group has issued new guidelines almost unthinkable even days ago — if someone’s in cardiac arrest and you can’t revive them in the field, don’t bring them to the emergency room. The newly implemented order that takes effect Thursday was implemented in...

With some coronavirus test results taking weeks to get, patients wait anxiously while the government gives emergency approval to new, quicker testing equipment.

The youngest person to die in Broward County from the coronavirus was just 34 years old. Family members said Brandon Robinson went to the hospital last week, and never came back home. “We couldn’t see him at the hospital and we found out just by calling in that he had passed,” said Craig Gates, Robinson’s brother. Robinson passed away...

Alanna Encarnacion had a lot going on Thursday morning on her back patio. Encarnacion is a teacher at Gulfstream K-8 in Hallandale Beach. We watched her keeping one eye on her kindergartner daughter, who was on her tablet doing a distance learning activity, while simultaneously teaching her dual language class of third graders. The kids are getting academics and also,…

The fallout from the coronavirus outbreak continues to hit the world of entertainment particularly hard as the number of events either being postponed or canceled outright continues to add up. Here’s a current list of some of the high profile concerts and festivals that have been impacted because of the virus.

Christelle Girot Marin had a simple message for state officials last week. “I want them to know they need to fix the website,” she told NBC 6.  “At least the website.” On Thursday, she shared an update with NBC 6 – she was finally able to file her application online at 10 p.m. Sunday. “There was a little bit less…

Democrats announced Thursday that they were postponing their presidential nominating convention until August, an unprecedented move that shows how the coronavirus is reshaping the battle for the White House.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced he signed an executive order to assign more state employees to the Department of Economic Opportunity.

Major global stock markets and U.S. futures rose Thursday following a rocky start to the day after a White House warning that as many as 240,000 Americans might die of the coronavirus sent Wall Street tumbling.

From furloughed workers to front-line responders, Americans across the spectrum wrote in to describe their new, bewildering reality.

Leonardo DiCaprio will help launch the America’s Food Fund, which has raised $12 million for communities impacted by the coronavirus

Amazon is taking greater steps to protect warehouse workers following weeks of public outcry., CNBC reports.

Carnival’s Holland America cruise ships, the Zaandam and Rotterdam, were approaching South Florida in international waters Thursday morning while federal and state officials wait on word whether they would be allowed to dock at Port Everglades. Sources tell NBC News that a “deal is done” which would allow most passengers to get off the ships. The deal still needs...

Two inmates at Broward County jails have tested positive for COVID-19, the sheriff’s office said.

While his administration has faced criticism for being slow to ramp up testing for coronavirus infections, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the problem was with his predecessors, saying the administration “inherited a broken system” that it “rebuilt.” That’s misleading. The president has a point that the testing system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone...

School officials in Florida say a man exposed himself to students after hacking into an online class being held by a public school

More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Combined with last week’s report that 3.3 million people sought unemployment aid two weeks ago, the U.S. economy has now suffered nearly 10 million layoffs…

A New Jersey ER doctor has died in his New York City apartment just one week after he noticed coronavirus symptoms, his family and colleagues told NBC News.

Unemployment claims in Florida are surging, as are frustrations among the newly jobless struggling for weeks to get financial relief amidst the coronavirus outbreak

The sister of actor Matthew Broderick said she received preferential treatment at a California hospital while battling the coronavirus, according to NBC News.

Hollywood’s summer movie season is all but finished

Epidemiologists are warning amid the coronavirus pandemic of other viruses that could sweep the globe — just as a decade-old program designed to identify those deadly viruses is on the chopping block. The federally-funded program, called PREDICT, has gotten a six-month extension for the current outbreak to help with early detection and to track the animal source of the virus….

Broward County is closing all school campuses except for those operating as food distribution sites as they try to limit the amount of staff in buildings to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The district will close the school campuses on Monday, with staff supporting students and teachers from home. “Staff may be asked to report to work if essential…

Former Vice President Joe Biden was wrong when he said that the Trump administration made no effort to get U.S. medical experts into China as the novel coronavirus epidemic spread there early this year. “[W]hen we were talking … early on in this crisis, we said — I said, among others, that, you know, you should get into China, get…

As more people began sheltering in their homes throughout the month of March to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, retail alcohol sales in the U.S. started to rise along with sales of cleaning products, toilet paper and food, showing just how important our drinking rituals are even (and maybe especially) in a crisis, according to NBC News.

Tyler Hoover’s attempts at reviving neglected chariots on the cheap are riveting for his nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers. So when self-isolation started for much of the country in mid-March, his “Hoovies Garage” channel, like those of many video creators, saw an increase in viewership.