Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Britain has reached a “ perilous turning point” in the pandemic as he introduced new curfews on pubs and restaurants and encouraged remote working - measures that could remain in place for six months.A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used for making things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms.Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the nation’s “divisive state” is hindering consistent messaging during the coronavirus pandemic. The novel coronavirus is spreading at dangerous rates in many states as autumn arrives and colder weather - traditionally congenial to viruses - begins to settle across the nation, public health data shows.The Food and Drug Administration is expected as soon as this week to spell out a new standard for an emergency authorization of a coronavirus vaccine that will make it exceedingly difficult for any vaccine to be cleared before Election Day.fatalities could reach 410,000 by the end of the year. A forecast released by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington this month predicted that U.S.
