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It might not be the “game changer” Covid-19 treatment the president promised.
The medical supply chain is the latest fiasco.
“Oncologists are in a very particular predicament right now,” says Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Kids can spread the virus to more vulnerable adults, and infants may have a higher risk of serious illness than older children.
If you have Covid-19 symptoms, here’s when to seek medical care and how to protect the people you live with.
I got an induction in the hope of avoiding a Covid-19 health care catastrophe.
As the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic spreads around the globe, “our biggest enemy is panic,” Brooks says.
High health care costs and low medical capacity made the US uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Public health professionals at the CDC and elsewhere need to speak with the public every single day.
Trump is expanding his European travel ban to the UK starting Monday night.
We already have medicines for treating cytokine storm syndrome, the immune response that’s killing many who die of Covid-19.
The pandemic quickly became one of the most talked-about things on the internet.
What are the symptoms of this coronavirus? Where did it come from? How will the pandemic end?
The actor played cool about the diagnosis on social media.
As schools close and parents lack paid leave, who will take care of the country’s kids?
This is how we all help slow the spread of coronavirus.
How deep or lasting the economic impact will be depends on the coronavirus’s spread, and how governments manage the outbreak.
The coronavirus is much more than a public health problem.
The difference between quarantine, isolation, and social distancing, explained.
“It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s Covid-19 response.
Donald Trump Jr. claimed Democrats want coronavirus deaths in order to “end Donald Trump’s streak of winning.”
The president’s argument rests on a misunderstanding of how time works.
We’re living in a dangerous post-antibiotic era. AI can help.
The world’s biggest tech companies are coming to terms with how their businesses are being impacted by the global outbreak.
Coronavirus spreading through US military ranks would be a disaster.
Amid criticism of his coronavirus strategy, Trump is defending his choices and maintaining that “we did the right thing.”
It’s the latest example of how the tech industry is reacting to worries about the virus’s spread.
Although public officials in the area say the virus is contained for now, some in the tech industry fear the virus will spread out of control.
The coronavirus is just a small part of a bigger story. Animals’ viruses keep causing outbreaks.
Without the mortality rate, it’s hard to decide how to respond and prepare for a worsening outbreak.
The tricky business of disease diplomacy.
Researchers used AI to mine through existing medical information to find drugs that they say might be helpful for tackling the novel coronavirus.
Yes, we shouldn’t panic — but let’s not dismiss people’s worries so easily. There’s still much we don’t know about the virus.
Four ways it could devolve into a dangerous pandemic, and four ways it could steadily improve.
We asked seven experts to weigh in on his State of the Union pledge.
Three major US airlines are suspending all flights to and from mainland China.
Thousands have been sickened by a new coronavirus in more than a dozen countries, including the US.
More than 50 million people have been affected by China’s travel restrictions.
With more than 600 cases in at least seven countries, the agency said it’s “too early” to sound the international alarm.
They’re political theater, not good public health policy.