Healthcare - The New American

Higher COVID-19 Death Rate Among Blacks: How Will This Affect Policy?

Minorities such as blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately dying of the coronavirus, likely because large urban areas, where the virus spreads quickly, have...

Selwyn Duke April 7, 2020

Could Contaminated COVID-19 Tests Help Spread the Virus?

C. Mitchell Shaw April 6, 2020

As the COVID-19 epidemic goes into another week and the government-mandated lockdown continues with no reasonable end in sight, fear of the virus...

Flawed Coronavirus Models Overestimated Deaths, Need for Hospital beds

Bob Adelmann April 6, 2020

The initial predictions for the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths have been innacurate, and the outlook is being revised downward. This is good...

Why New Orleans’ Coronavirus Death Rate is 7 TIMES NYC’s

Selwyn Duke April 3, 2020

New York City may be considered the Wuhan virus’s current epicenter, with more than 57,159 people testing positive as of Friday morning. But...

Wear a Mask or Pay a Fine in Laredo

Steve Byas April 3, 2020

If you plan on walking the streets of Laredo, you better be wearing a mask, or you face a $1,000 fine. ...

Michigan Governor Reverses Stance on COVID-19 Treatments Touted by Trump

James Murphy April 2, 2020

A week after prohibiting hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is now asking the federal government to send the...

Coronavirus Response: 10 Million Unemployment Claims in March, Stock Market Down Almost 30 Percent

R. Cort Kirkwood April 2, 2020

The government response to the Chinese Virus has, in a matter of four weeks, wrecked a roaring economy that had record-low unemployment and...

Virginia Joins Growing List of States Ordering People to Stay Home

C. Mitchell Shaw March 30, 2020

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam held a special press conference at 2 p.m. Monday to announce his executive order requiring Virginians to “shelter in...

FDA Approves Two Drugs To Fight Coronavirus — Despite Politicized Opposition

Steve Byas March 30, 2020

The FDA has given a limited emergency use for two anti-malarial drugs that President Donald Trump has championed as potentially efficacious against the...

Suicide and Mental Health Concerns May Be Bigger Threat Than COVID-19 Itself

Warren Mass March 30, 2020

The measures put in place to control spreading the coronavirus are creating social isolation, resulting in loneliness, depression, and possibly more suicides. ...