'This is a bat virus, not a China virus. It doesn’t speak Chinese, it doesn’t target Chinese people, it targets human beings who happen to touch their eyes, their nose or mouth.'

Globally there are around 200,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 8,000 deaths so far. In the United States alone, the number of deaths has exceeded 100.

Federal policymakers may have to eventually come up with an almost unbelievable $4 trillion in stimulus in order to avoid a disastrous 20 percent unemployment.

As state and local officials across the United States diligently take steps aimed at dealing with the coronavirus and COVID 19 outbreak--and even federal lawmakers and members of his own administration hammer out their own national responses--Donald Trump remains incapable of making any real positive contributions, according to those who are closely watching the White House and the federal response.

It's Donald Trump's older supporters who are most at risk of falling ill, and potentially dying, of the COVID 19 disease caused by the coronavirus, according to a prominent Washington Post blogger.

Facing off in his first head-to-head debate, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination Joe Biden vowed that, should he become the party's nominee, he will name a woman as his running mate.

Political writer Eric Boehlert blast Fox for it's coronavirus commentary, calling it cancer and a danger to Americans.

A Democratic congresswoman is calling on the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to commute the sentences of some federal inmates as part of its response to relieve the potential for the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic to infect prison populations.

Dr. Yale Tung Chen was busily treating patients at a university hospital in Madrid, Spain. That is, until five days ago, when he first developed symptoms of COVID 19, the disease produced by the coronavirus.

The outbreak of the coronavirus COVID 19 has not yet peaked, and national leaders will continue to respond in a way which is "proportionate," said Dr Anthony Fauci, a leading immunologist and a member of the federal coronavirus task force.