Washington, D.C. – The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way U.S. consumers live, work and go to school. A new report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released during National Consumer Protection week now shows an impact on hospital emergency room
The CDC has reversed its recommendations about using face masks as the coronavirus pandemic develops. Here's what that means. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed its stance on wearing face masks on Friday, including cloth face coverings sewn at home. Its new guideline
Officials often use similar words when describing the pandemic, but they are not always talking about the same thing, making global comparisons less useful. Making sense of the coronavirus pandemic requires getting up to speed on semantics as much as epidemiology. Government officials
Layoffs are skyrocketing to unprecedented levels as the coronavirus upends the U.S. economy. The number of Americans filing initial applications for unemployment benefits jumped nearly twelvefold to a record 3.28 million last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, offering the most vivid evidence yet of the
