The United States, and the global community, won’t really return to normal until mass immunizations are available against the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bill Gates, who with his wife, runs a charitable foundation which works against communicable disease.

The New York area, which has been dealing with most of the cases of COVID-19 in the United States, will likely reach the apex of the region's pandemic within days--but the state's still not ready, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

With equipment such as ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE) becoming as valuable--and, often as scarce--in this new world as gold or oil, New York Gov Andrew Cuomo (D) signed an executive order designed to seize such gear and redirect it to where it's needed most.

COVID-19 patients who have to go on a ventilator only have a 20 percent of ever coming off of it again, according to New York Gov Andrew Cuomo (D), who is leading the largest mobilization against the disease in the United States.

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.

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.

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.