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Charley Lanyon
Charley is SCMP's US Culture Correspondent. After years living and eating in Asia, he has recently relocated to Los Angeles where he is delighted to report that the dim sum isn’t terrible.
US senators move to pressure China with Hong Kong sanctions bill; proposed legislation is response to controversial national security law put forward by Beijing.
The state is reeling from sharp revenue drops and slashed budgets: within months it will go from a surplus of more than US$6 billion to a US$54 billion deficit.
Fauci testified to Senate panel via video conference; while he warned about ‘serious’ consequences of reopening the nation too soon, he also offered cautious optimism on vaccine development.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation revises projections for a second time in less than a week, as states ease restrictions faster than expected. In many states – Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas and Maryland, among them – daily reported cases are still on the rise.
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Doctors in China found 16 per cent of men hospitalised with disease at one facility tested positive for Sars-Cov-2 in their semen, but researchers caution that the findings are preliminary and far from conclusive.
White House adviser Peter Navarro says president will soon sign executive order requiring federal agencies to buy US-made medical products and pharmaceuticals.
In those states taking a more moderate approach to allowing a resumption of business, governors face pressure from both outside and inside their borders.
Food and Drug Administration seen to allow emergency use of Gilead Sciences’ experimental drug after clinical trials show its effectiveness.
Orange and Ventura counties have kept their beaches open amid statewide stay-at-home order; people flocked to those seafront towns over the weekend.
February deaths in California upend what experts thought they knew about the virus’s spread in US, as antibody tests indicate a much greater incidence of infection, and possible recovery – information vital to help decide next steps to take.
New York Times report says operatives helped spread messages claiming Trump administration would deploy national guard to enforce nationwide quarantine.
‘We are still asking the Chinese Communist Party to allow experts to get in to that virology lab so that we can determine precisely where this virus began,’ said Pompeo, while Trump insists in White House briefing that China’s death toll is higher.
Trump explicitly left the time table for opening up states to the governors.
The call comes after President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull US funding from the World Health Organisation, accusing the UN body of being biased in favour of China.
Outbreaks are now erupting across the US, and not just in large metropolitan areas like Chicago and Detroit; from the South to the Midwest to the Great Plains, states are grappling with rising confirmed cases and fatalities.
California, Oregon and Washington made hard choices early, but seem to have minimised confirmed cases and deaths The states said on Monday they are discussing a framework for jointly reopening their economies once the virus is under control.
Asians and Asian Americans continue to be targeted, but recent coronavirus webinars have included abuse and slurs of black participants; the Zoom videoconferencing platform was used, and hacked, in both webinars.
Protocols developed at the pandemic’s first hotspot could guide health care workers in the US and Europe as they struggle with the same issues.
US president says World Health Organisation knew about the dangers of the coronavirus months before it took any action.
Medical facilities in smaller American cities and rural areas face grim reckoning as Covid-19 spreads.
The US president emphasised that under the new guidance wearing any kind of face covering was voluntary; the move follows a growing movement to encourage people to wear masks across the country.
California becomes the first state to offer official guidelines acknowledging that wearing a mask could help contain the spread of coronavirus. Many Americans have viewed face coverings with suspicion or as unnecessary.
The Golden State is going all-out to swell its ranks of health care workers in response to ballooning coronavirus hospitalisations.
‘We slowed the transmission,’ Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan says, amid signs the tide is turning. Washington state was one of the first to ask people to observe social distancing, as early as the end of February.
Disruption of your natural circadian rhythm, or body clock, will not only leave you tired, unmotivated and moody, but could lower body’s your defences against cancer, affect digestion, and make you less fertile, medical researchers say.
Officials in the most populous US state rush to prepare for a further onslaught while dealing with a spike in confirmed infections.
Despite severe ‘shelter in place’ and business-closing orders, state now confirms more than 3,200 cases, a rise of nearly 22 per cent in 24 hours and a trend that puts California on a path similar to New York’s.
Officials in the most populous US state, already designated a disaster area, say the outbreak has not yet reached the height of its impact there; San Francisco Mayor London Breed asks ‘Why are we still listening to the president?’
A joint letter from three news organisations said the media is suffering ‘collateral damage’ from a diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
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