Coronavirus task force

The coordinator of the White House coronavirus response says she plans to retire

The controversial White House coronavirus adviser is expected to resign Tuesday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Thursday he wanted to assure Americans of the safety of the vaccines currently in development. “The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did it compromise scientific integrity,” Fauci said.

Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, on Thursday issued a warning to Americans as cases rise around the country. “We want to call on every American to increase their vigilance,” Birx said. She also urged people to limit gatherings and wear masks as the country sees a surge in asymptomatic cases.

Coronavirus cases have increased in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam over the past 14 days, the latest NBC News data showed Tuesday. And in a dozen of those states — Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Iowa, Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas, Pennsylvania and New York — infections have spiked in the last two…

The United States has recorded more than 240,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic as cases continue surging nationwide, according to NBC News.

Despite an increase in the number of coronavirus cases across the country — including a record-setting 77,000 cases Thursday — Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC that the coronavirus task force now meets only weekly.

In the week since President Donald Trump emerged from coronavirus isolation, he has demonstrated new determination to minimize the threat of the virus that has killed more than 215,000 Americans and complicated his chances of winning another four years in the White House

Former White House COVID-19 Task Force Advisor and Pence aide Oliva Troye is revealing that she witnessed an effort to underplay the danger of the coronavirus for certain populations, ages and demographics while working in the White House.

While the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths passed 200,000 over the weekend, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by President Donald Trump, saying, “We were looking at the prospect of 2 million people potentially perishing from the coronavirus in this country.” When questioned about the president’s comments to journalist Bob Woodward in which...

A group of 78 researchers and doctors from Stanford Medical School are calling out former colleague and White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas for spreading what they characterized as “falsehoods and misrepresentation of science.”

Dr. Deborah Birx urged Americans to wear face masks even when visiting friends and family in private. “We find that when people gather together in private, as family members and neighbors, they make assumptions that there couldn’t be anybody that has infection there,” she said.

President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force, and this time there’s no daylight between them

A coronavirus press briefing was interrupted when a Secret Service agent abruptly ushered President Donald Trump offstage. When Trump returned to the press briefing, he confirmed that a person had been shot outside of the White House.

President Donald Trump’s announcement on Monday that he will resume regular coronavirus briefings at the White House was apparently news to America’s top infectious disease expert. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared to be caught off guard by the briefings’ return during an interview with Maria Shriver on Instagram Live Monday. Asked if he...

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that the White House pressured the CDC into relaxing their guidelines after President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools.”

Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force say why schools should reopen this fall.

When asked about the campaign rally President Trump held in Tulsa, Okla., last week, Vice President Pence defended the decision to move forward with the event despite the rising number of coronavirus cases across the U.S. The vice president also avoided answering if he was concerned that his own inconsistent use of face masks was sending the wrong message.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID and member of the White House coronavirus task force, addressed the growing number of virus cases across the U.S. Fauci urged Americans to do their part in stopping the spread, saying, “A risk for you is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part, innocently or inadvertently, of propagating...

At the first coronavirus task force press conference in nearly two months, Vice President Mike Pence urged Americans to continue to follow the White House coronavirus task force guidelines as coronavirus hospitalizations continue to rise in 16 states across the U.S.