Coronavirus task force

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that the White House pressured the CDC into relaxing their guidelines after President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools.”

Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force say why schools should reopen this fall.

When asked about the campaign rally President Trump held in Tulsa, Okla., last week, Vice President Pence defended the decision to move forward with the event despite the rising number of coronavirus cases across the U.S. The vice president also avoided answering if he was concerned that his own inconsistent use of face masks was sending the wrong message.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID and member of the White House coronavirus task force, addressed the growing number of virus cases across the U.S. Fauci urged Americans to do their part in stopping the spread, saying, “A risk for you is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part, innocently or inadvertently, of propagating...

At the first coronavirus task force press conference in nearly two months, Vice President Mike Pence urged Americans to continue to follow the White House coronavirus task force guidelines as coronavirus hospitalizations continue to rise in 16 states across the U.S.

President Donald Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration’s disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force, which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.

At a congressional hearing on the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that success in fighting the virus has been largely dependent on different regions’ willingness to follow the coronavirus task force guidelines and warned that the coming weeks will be critical in slowing the spread. Fauci also testified that he was never ordered to slow down testing,...

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Wednesday that “there was no linkage to Memorial Day as being some point of spurring wild outbreaks” of the coronavirus despite some health experts linking the growing number of U.S. cases to Memorial Day gatherings.

President Donald Trump is set to name a former pharmaceutical executive to lead his administration’s all-out effort to produce and distribute a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.

Recent spikes in coronavirus cases in the nation’s heartland are just the latest sign that President Donald Trump’s push to re-open American society is coming at a human cost, even as he publicly downplays the risk.

Coronavirus infection rates are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House’s pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News.

The Centers for Disease Control has long been at the center of the nation’s health concerns

Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading...

When asked if he takes responsibility for the spike in calls to poison control centers around the country following his on-camera comments about bleach and disinfectant injection as a potential coronavirus treatment, President Donald Trump said, “I can’t imagine why.”

For medical officials, advising the White House on the coronavirus is very tricky

During a press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump asked that the White House coronavirus task force investigate whether a disinfectant could be injected as a treatment for coronavirus patients.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he disagrees with Dr. Anthony Fauci over U.S. testing capacity after the NIAID director said in a TIME interview that “we absolutely need to significantly ramp up not only the number of tests, but the capacity to actually perform them.”

Five dollars from each bobblehead sale of Dr. Deborah Birx will go to protective gear for medical personnel.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was halting U.S. funding for the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the organization’s alleged role in “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.”