Rowan Scarborough

Pentagon says COVID report cited by ABC doesn’t exist

The Pentagon says a supposed intelligence report cited by ABC News on an emerging COVID-19 pandemic doesn't exist.

April 9, 2020

Pentagon eyeing ‘stop loss’ order in coronavirus fight to keep troops from exiting

The Trump administration is looking at issuing a "stop loss" order in the war on coronavirus that would prevent troops from leaving service once their enlistments ended, according to a Pentagon source.

April 7, 2020

Nation’s hospitals diagnosed as short on coronavirus staff, gear and money: IG

The frontline fighters in the war on coronavirus are lacking diagnostic tests, protective gear, and cash, the Health and Human Services Department inspector general reported on Monday.

April 6, 2020

Donald Trump, Richard Grenell to help cull intelligence community

The Trump administration is set to pare desk jobs at the top of the intelligence community, invoking the argument that its staffs are too large and duplicative, knowledgeable sources say.

April 5, 2020

War on COVID-19 slowing coronavirus growth: Researchers

Pantheon Macroeconomics estimates that in New York City, the American pandemic epicenter, the number of new cases daily peaked a week ago and "appears to now to be failing sharply."

April 4, 2020

Health agencies’ reports didn’t highlight inventory shortfalls

The federal watchdog for the department that includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a total of four press statements on its website in 2019-20, and three of them dealt with the health care of migrant children at the border.

April 2, 2020

White House’s favorite coronavirus model overshot hospital bed count

An institute's coronavirus projections, which President Trump is greatly relying upon to set COVID-19 policy, said the U.S. would need 135,000 hospital beds by today -- yet only about 31,000 patients are hospitalized.

April 2, 2020

On-scene British reporters say Chinese markets again selling bats, likely source of deadly pandemic

China is permitting wild animal markets to resume selling bats, believed to be the source for the deadly coronavirus now killing people across the globe, including over 2,500 Americans to date, British reporters say.

March 30, 2020

Coronavirus testing in U.S. accelerates after slow start

The U.S. has conducted nearly 900,000 coronavirus tests across the country after fumbling at the start because of too few tests and faulty kits, the federal government says.

March 29, 2020

U.S. COVID-19 deaths double in three days

Late March has seen the uptick in coronavirus deaths the world feared, with the toll doubling twice from about 5,000 to nearing 25,000 today.

March 27, 2020

White House dismisses doomsday COVID-19 death toll

The White House, under pressure to level the peak of coronavirus infections, is pushing back against "frightening" high-end statistical modeling, one of which has nearly the entire planet catching the virus this year.

March 26, 2020

Scores of data released on coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted colleges, think tanks, medical journals and governments to release scores of stats and studies -- some good, while others fail peer review.

March 25, 2020

Pentagon coronavirus tests are ‘scarce’ despite assurances; sick troops told to self-isolate

Top defense leaders are assuring troops that coronavirus testing is available, but for Pentagon warriors the coveted test is "scarce," according to an internal memo.

March 25, 2020

Omar Jones IV, U.S. Army Military District of Washington commander, raises coronavirus threat level

The commander who oversees Army bases in the Washington area has raised the threat level for the coronavirus because of a "sustained possibility of community transmissions."

March 22, 2020

NBC article touted ‘promising’ drug as its reporter bashed Trump for ‘false sense of hope’

An NBC news division medical report promoted the possible benefits of an anti-malarial drug in subduing the coronavirus the day before its White House reporter questioned President Trump for talking up the same medicine.

March 21, 2020

China hid coronavirus, admonished whistleblowers

Communist China told the world in early January there was no evidence that its Wuhan coronavirus spread human-to-human even as medical whistleblowers were warning of an epidemic and authorities shut down a wild animal market.

March 20, 2020

China knew for years bats caused disease, yet left wild animal markets open

Communist China has allowed wild animal markets to offer live bats, raccoons, civets and other species, and a series of studies shows the animals are teeming with viruses that threaten humans.

March 18, 2020

FBI Trump targeting details revealed by Horowitz report

Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz's history of how the FBI targeted Donald Trump associates has become a constant presence on social media as journalists and Russia aficionados make more discoveries and connect the dots.

March 17, 2020

WHO: No evidence U.S. brought coronavirus to China

The World Health Organization on Sunday said there is no evidence the U.S. introduced the coronavirus into China as suggested by Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman last week.

March 15, 2020

Johns Hopkins coronavirus map infected by China-Taiwan standoff

The long standoff between communist mainland China and the breakaway democratic island of Taiwan has infected the tally of coronavirus.

March 12, 2020