Transcript: Michael Osterholm on "Intelligence Matters"
In this episode of "Intelligence Matters," top epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm talks with Michael Morell about the essential and unanswered questions surrounding a COVID-19 vaccine.
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In this episode of "Intelligence Matters," top epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm talks with Michael Morell about the essential and unanswered questions surrounding a COVID-19 vaccine.
Foreign Ministry in Beijing says figuring out COVID-19 origin should be left to scientists, "not politicians who lie for their own domestic political ends."
In this episode of "Intelligence Matters," China expert Chris Johnson discusses Beijing's handling of COVID-19.
Seniors file back into class, wearing masks and having their temperatures checked, for the first time in months to prep for exams.
"If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated," Fauci said.
President Trump is acknowledging the coronavirus death toll may be higher than he had previously predicted, but he is still encouraging states to reopen their economies. In an appearance Sunday on Fox News, the president said as many as 100,000 Americans could die. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid joined CBSN with more on the president's response.
The intelligence community is examining whether the virus originated from human contact with infected animals or came about as the result of a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China.
President refuses to offer details but U.S. intel agencies say COVID-19 wasn't manmade.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that the novel coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified." Officials are now shifting focus in their investigations into the origins of the virus. CBS News' intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis joins CBSN with the latest.
News stories of a mysterious novel coronavirus outbreak spreading in Wuhan, China began appearing in America in early January. So, how did we get from those small but worrying early warnings to now, when our nation leads the world, not in managing the crisis, but in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths? Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett ("The Coming Plague"); Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute; and Beth Cameron, who was once in charge of pandemic preparedness for the National Security Council, about the Trump administration's response to COVID-19.
The notion that the virus itself was human-engineered has been effectively dismissed, officials said.
Officials are blaming "late or missed reporting" and overwhelmed health workers for the hike, but under mounting pressure from Washington, Beijing insists there was no cover-up.
At the stroke of midnight, the city celebrated "liberation" from its lockdown and honored frontline workers in a light show.
After more than two months on lockdown, the Chinese city where the outbreak began has a timetable for returning to more normal life.
Best practices and how to stay safe from the coronavirus pandemic.
The claim appears to be a good sign in the fight against the virus.
Despite calls to avoid racial labeling, Mr. Trump has repeatedly referred to COVID-19 as the "Chinese virus."
A Chinese official tweeted a conspiracy theory about coronavirus, while some U.S. lawmakers have hurled accusations of their own.
A senior staffer at Health and Human Services said a government team sent to help process American coronavirus evacuees didn't have the training or equipment for the assignment, the Washington Post reported.
"Farewell to those I love and to those who loved me!" film director Chang Kai reportedly wrote in goodbye note.
Planes carrying more than 300 people arrived at military bases, with some of the evacuees already having tested positive for the new coronavirus.
A spokesman for WHO confirmed the organization will report cases as they're reported by Chinese authorities.
Outside of China, the Diamond Princess is the site of the biggest coronavirus outbreak.
The CDC says the new coronavirus could be around for at least another year.
Samson Adame, a 24-year-old Cal State Northridge student, has been in the Shandong Province of China since the coronavirus epidemic broke out.