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Biden calls for nationwide mask mandate

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ??"

Joe Biden is calling for a nationwide protective mask mandate, citing health experts' predictions that it could save 40,000 lives from coronavirus over the next three months.

"Wearing the mask is less about you contracting the virus," Biden said. "It's about preventing other people from getting sick."

The Democratic presidential candidate also responded to those who push back against such mandates.

"This is America. Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Step up, do the right thing."

"Every single American... Read More

The Latest: S Korea concerned as new cases spike above 100

SEOUL, South Korea ??" South Korea is reporting 103 new coronavirus cases. It is one of the country's biggest daily jumps in months, and officials are expressing concern that infections are getting out of control in the capital of Seoul and other major cities as Koreans increasingly venture out in public.

The figures released by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday brought the national caseload to 14,873 cases, including 305 deaths.

Eighty-three of the new cases were in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where authorities have I... Read More

US jobless claims fall below 1 million but remain high

WASHINGTON (AP) ??" The number of Americans applying for unemployment dropped below 1 million last week for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak took hold in the U.S. five months ago, but layoffs are still running extraordinarily high.

The figures show that the crisis continues to throw people out of work just as the expiration of an extra $600 a week in federal jobless benefits has deepened the hardship for many ??" and posed another threat to the U.S. economy.

Applications for jobless benefits declined to 963,000, the second straight drop, from 1.2 million... Read More

Virus exposes economic, racial divide in French health care

BONDY, France (AP) ??" Festering beneath France's promise of guaranteed health care for all lie deep disparities across economic and racial lines ??" differences laid painfully bare by the COVID-19 crisis.

Two recent studies have documented these gaps, but government officials haven't issued new proposals in response. However, as France records a new uptick in virus cases, a health advocacy group called Banlieues Santé ??" Suburbs Health ??" is trying to help, offering medical care and guidance in poor and migrant-heavy suburbs and neighborhoods.

After the pandemic... Read More

Distrust of authority fuels virus misinformation for Latinos

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ??" When Claudia Guzman suspected she had caught the coronavirus, her friends and family were full of advice: Don't quarantine. Don't get tested. A homemade tea will help cure you.

"They were saying, 'Don't go to the hospital,' because supposedly, if you are admitted into the hospital, they administer the virus into your body," said Guzman, who was born in Chicago to parents from Mexico and now lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

False claims and conspiracy theories, ranging from bogus cures to the idea that the virus is a hoax, have dogged efforts to... Read More

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Biden calls for nationwide mask mandate

The Latest: S Korea concerned as new cases spike above 100

US jobless claims fall below 1 million but remain high

Virus exposes economic, racial divide in French health care

Distrust of authority fuels virus misinformation for Latinos

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