President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. may be able to get the new coronavirus outbreak under control by July or August at the earliest. Trump, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, also said his administration may look at lockdowns for “certain areas” or “hot spots” in the nation. But the president said

Thirty-three people in the state have tested positive for the virus, and at least 8,400 people who have returned from overseas are being monitored. California officials said this week that they had bolstered efforts to confront the growing threat of the coronavirus, declaring that they were prepared and pursuing aggressive measures to thwart its spread.

Sense of crisis deepens in U.S. as worldwide cases approach 100,000. The U.S. government rushed testing kits to a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of California on Thursday as the number of new cases and deaths related to the coronavirus in the United States continued to rise. So far, 14 deaths have been linked to the virus — all but

For the first time, the World Health Organization called coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to be a pandemic. Meanwhile, the United States now has more than 1,000 people infected with coronavirus — but testing in the U.S. is still ramping up, meaning that number could continue to climb. On Wednesday, the governor of New York questioned the

Northern and western states are now being hit hard. Currently the influenza B strain is appearing most often around the country. The CDC announced high numbers of pediatric deaths related to the flu. The United States may be gearing up for one of the worst flu seasons in years, health experts predict. The Centers for Disease

While health officials in the United States wait to see just how bad a public health challenge COVID-19 will pose, they still have to deal with an all-too-familiar challenge: flu. It’s been a bad flu season. Not the worst ever, but bad. “It started very early this year,” says Emily Martin, associate professor of epidemiology at