The White House on Monday suspended daily coronavirus task force briefings but said they would resume later in the week as the focus shifts to the economic reopening phase in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The pause in the briefings follows a tumultuous few days after the Republican president’s musings on Thursday on whether injecting disinfectants might be a treatment for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus. An international chorus of doctors, health experts and manufacturers of the products urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant after President Donald Trump made the ... (full story)