June 26, 2020

Also, if you're headed back to a physical workplace, how do you keep safe? And do you need to have a mask on all the time at work?

In interviews with CNBC Make It, Beth Cameron, who ran the White House pandemic readiness office until 2017, talks about the 'pandemic playbook' she helped to create, what the current administration missed and what keep her up at night about future threats.

The spring of a presidential election year is often a busy time for adding new voters to the rolls, and a recent report from the Center for Election Innovation and Research shows registration numbers were even stronger in early 2020 than early 2016. But things changed dramatically in March.

The state of the Covid-19 pandemic on both a global and national scale, is 'more bleak than I would have expected,' Bill Gates said on CNN's 'Coronavirus Town Hall' Thursday.

'We're asking people not to depend on contact tracing at this stage of the outbreak,' one health official in Texas said as cases spread across many states.

Governors in places seeing huge spikes in coronavirus infections often cite statewide data to assure the public they have plenty of hospital capacity to survive the onslaught, even as the states routinely miss the critical benchmarks to guide their pandemic response.

The coronavirus has infected more than 9.64 million people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 490,055 people.

Virologist Robert Lambkin-Williams told CNBC there was no clear evidence that antibodies produced to fight off the coronavirus gave people any protection against being reinfected.

Gates thinks that 'a lot' of people will take a vaccine when one is made available, and that herd immunity can be reached if 70-80% of people take it.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney posed for a photo posted Friday by his daughter, Sen. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., to encourage mask wearing, as coronavirus cases surge in some parts of the country.

Privacy advocates warn of a slippery slope toward 'normalizing' new levels of employer surveillance.

'People are infecting other people and ultimately you will infect someone who's vulnerable,' Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a press briefing.

Spiking cases of COVID-19 have shifted sentiments around the pandemic in recent weeks, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday.

'None of us have ever had to do this before”: Firefighting teams innovate to avoid disease as they protect people.

Researchers want answers to help combat the spread and prevent more infections. But conflicting opinions make that more challenging.

Florida reported 8,942 new coronavirus cases Friday, shattering the previous record set days ago.

The scathing order issued Friday said the Trump administration had failed to provide even the most basic health protections for children and their families.

As new cases of Covid-19 reach record levels in the United States, there’s new evidence the novel coronavirus that causes the disease has been with us much longer than previously thought.

Meet some of the people in China who lived through the start of the coronavirus pandemic. They have not forgotten the weeks of isolation, fear and heartbreak.