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The woman who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 called on him to drop out of the US presidential race, saying Thursday she'd take a polygraph about the alleged encounter if he would.

Tara Reade said in March that Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee, sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill corridor 27 years ago when she was a 29-year-old aide in the then-senator's office.

The accusation is the biggest imbroglio of Biden's presidential campaign. The candidate has denied wrongdoing.

"Joe Biden, please step forward and be held accountable. You should not be running on character for the president of the United States," Reade told journalist Megyn Kelly in a clip released Thursday.

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The United States government was slow to understand how much coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the acceleration of outbreaks across the nation, said Dr Anne Schuchat, the number-two official at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The World Health Organization has reiterated that the coronavirus is believed to be "natural in origin", responding to a claim by US President Donald Trump that he had seen evidence that indicated the virus emerged from a virology institute in Wuhan, China. 

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COVID-19 has created an urgent need for ventilators across the country.

Instead of building spacecraft, the NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have worked tirelessly to create a ventilator prototype to answer the call. NASA’s JPL sought out the Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA to be able to go with the design.

The FDA approved the emergence-use authorization request Thursday. NASA has offered up the license to companies for free.

“This crisis is unprecedented in our lives, and it requires unprecedented action,” said Robert Manning, a NASA JPL Engineering Fellow.

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President Donald Trump is pressing his health officials to pursue a crash development program for a coronavirus vaccine that could be widely distributed by the beginning of next year, despite widespread skepticism that such an effort could succeed and considerable concern about the implications for safety.

The White House has made no public announcement of the new effort, called Operation Warp Speed, and some officials are apparently trying to talk the president down, telling him that it would be more harmful to set an unreasonably short deadline that might result in a faulty vaccine than to wait for one that is proved safe and effective.

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Health care workers in North Carolina on Tuesday held a counterprotest against yet another “ReOpen NC” rally in the state capital. 

About a dozen nurses, doctors and other health care workers, wearing scrubs and masks, stood outside the State Archives of North Carolina in Raleigh with their arms crossed. Some carried signs reading “Stay Home For ME” and “I Can’t Believe I Have to Show Up Here Too.”

They stood in a formation that allowed them to practice social distancing, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.

Across the street, hundreds of ReOpen NC protesters crowded together for the third time in as many weeks, once again demanding that Gov. Roy Cooper (D) reopen the state’s economy during the coronavirus pandemic ― the dire warnings of public health officials be damned. Cooper announced last week that the state’s stay-at-home order had been extended into May. 

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