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Former New York City mayor and failed 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has a new title: as of Wednesday he can once more boast of the approval of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) as one of its specially chosen “Global Ambassadors.”

Public health officials in Los Angeles County ordered a ban on outdoor dining — without evidence linking outdoor eating or drinking to a claimed increase in local coronavirus infections — on Tuesday. The prohibition becomes effective at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News over the weekend that, after Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden oversaw 60 million Americans getting infected with swine flu—H1N1—America cannot trust Biden to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

Medical experts are urging the adoption of “focused protection” to replace current coronavirus lockdown policies that, they say, have produced nothing less than “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”

Mark Morgan, CEO and Commissioner of CPB, said the southern border wall stops illegal immigration and the spread of coronavirus.

According to a NYU study, the legendary five-minute Abbott coronavirus test misses close to 50 percent of positive infections.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has fired Renee Coleman-Mitchell, his public health commissioner, amid the coronavirus crisis.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing rising criticism over a controversial directive in March requiring the state’s nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals, when few had the equipment or training to deal with those patients.

Coronavirus patients at a Brooklyn nursing home were denied admission to both of the federal medical facilities established in New York.

Technocrats at the Public Health England (PHE) agency advising the British government during the coronavirus pandemic have behaved like “rabbits in the headlights” and proved themselves “not fit for purpose”, according to a top care executive.

Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health (ASH), told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday that the federal government is developing a broad-based effort consisting of wide-scale testing, surveillance, and contact tracing to be able to control the spread of coronavirus once the president makes the decision to reopen America.

Officials in Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada moved hundreds of homeless people to an open-air parking lot this weekend after an individual inside a shelter tested positive for coronavirus, posing a risk to other residents.

Some homeless people are reportedly skeptical of a new plan by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to relocate them to recreation centers in residential communities to contain the coronavirus pandemic, fearful they will be less safe in shelters.

Mayor Eric Garcetti is going ahead with a plan to move thousands of homeless people in Los Angeles into recreation centers in residential neighborhoods as part of the city’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A poll released Friday shows President Donald Trump’s approval for his handling of the coronavirus outbreak is on the rise.

The director-general of the World Health Organization said there are “many other health issues” facing people in the world besides coronavirus.

South Korea may have turned the corner in the fight against coronavirus, as officials reported Tuesday that the number of new cases had declined for the fourth day in a row.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg will air a three-minute advertisement on CBS and NBC on Sunday evening in which he presents himself as if he were the president, dealing with the ongoing challenge of coronavirus.

“This virus does not care what country it’s in, it’s not going to be stopped by a big wall,” he said, during a campaign event in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Italian Council of Ministers has declared a state of emergency due to the risk to public health posed by the spread of the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.

A Rasmussen poll finds 72 percent of Americans are confident the U.S. will be able to contain the rapidly spreading coronavirus.

A columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted just how horrific the homelessness crisis is in California and and one Oakland encampment where over the past two weeks 75 trucks to hauled out a staggering 250 tons of trash.

The Florida Surgeon General declared a public health emergency on Thursday after 56 new cases of Hepatitis A were reported in the last reporting period.

Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.

Mexican officials stated that more than one-third of the 6,000 caravan migrants currently living in the border city of Tijuana, Baja California, are being treated for health-related issues. Some are being treated for infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and chickenpox.

Sky-high sin taxes on meat have been branded “inevitable” in Britain after a study asserted that the move could “save hundreds of thousands of lives” as well as helping stop climate change.

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said migrants could bring diseases to the U.S.

California on Thursday allowed cities and counties to waive public health laws to allow sale of up to $50,000 a year of food prepared by unregulated home and mobile kitchens.

The index of tobacco stocks jumped by 4.9 percent on Wednesday after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators threatened to ban retail sales of “e-cigs” if manufacturers do not control their rampant use by teens.

The Associated Press reported Monday that 18 percent of recreational marijuana products in California have failed potency and health risk testing since July 1.

Los Angeles public healthcare officials and advocates for disadvantaged communities are blaming systemic racism for spiking rates of sexually transmitted diseases.

JERUSALEM — Israel announced Wednesday it was launching a domestic digital health database that could make it a global medical powerhouse. The move aims to improve public health worldwide but critics warn it risks compromising personal privacy.

California reported 36 flu deaths for the week ending February 3, as the influenza pandemic is on track to be worse than the 2009 outbreak of swine flu.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration for rolling back a fracking rule that he says is designed to protect public health and the environment.

California’s reported deaths from the ongoing influenza epidemic jumped over 50 percent, from 15 for the first week of 2018 to 32 for the second week of 2018.

A new report says that Texas is the U.S. state hardest hit by the flu so far this season with widespread outbreaks.