Dr Anthony Fauci, the famed immunologist who is advising Donald Trump on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic--and has increasingly become the public face in the crisis--is starting to offer Americans a glimmer of hope even as the deadly virus continues to spread.

Donald Trump's backpedaling on his desire to reopen the country in time for Easter came after campaign advisers for his re-election campaign told him that the public would hold him primarily responsible for the resulting increase in American deaths, according to a Washington Post reporter.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) is speculating that handshakes might no longer be acceptable after the coronavirus outbreak is over.

While Donald Trump contemplates ultimate US fatalities in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of life from the virus in New York is "already staggering," according to Gov Andrew Cuomo (D).

It's "too early to tell" whether those patients who have been sickened by the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease and have recovered from them have developed an immunity from being re-infected by the illness, according to an epidemiologist from the World Health Organization (WHO).

As New York City struggles with being the epicenter of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, so is it's police department, with more than 700 of its officers having contracted the virus, according to former police commissioner Bill Bratton.

The novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread at an alarming rate in the state of Louisiana, with more than 3,500 confirmed cases and 151 deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state has the fastest growth of new cases in the world, with a growth trajectory similar to that in Italy and Spain. And the lone Democrat in the Bayou State's congressional delegation blames Trump for needless deaths.

An analysis of traffic patterns and mobile phone data use indicates that 99 percent of residents are staying home as requested to help slow the spread of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, according to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

A Democratic senator and former presidential candidate castigated Donald Trump for too often blaming the nation's governors who are trying to manage through the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic.

The US military is still in a position to defend the nation despite the country being caught up in the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic, according to a former senior Marine Corps officer.