Opinion: I got Covid-19 and got lucky. The emotional impact hurt more
I tested positive for Covid-19 not long ago. It wasn’t a worried-well test, or even…
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A nurse’s coronavirus routine: Recording videos she hopes her family will never need to watch
The words are familiar at first, a bedtime trope so dependable that it’s hard to…
Opinion: The Covid-19 crisis too few are talking about: health care workers’ mental health
In the midst of this global pandemic, people are talking about the urgent and critical…
Americans are underestimating how long coronavirus disruptions will last, health experts say
Public health experts are increasingly worried that Americans are underestimating how long the coronavirus pandemic…
Listen: Pandemic exit strategies, how the outbreak affects patients, and Ken Burns takes on DNA
When will things go back to normal? What if a pandemic strikes when you’re already…
White House expected to recommend all Americans wear cloth masks to prevent coronavirus spread
WASHINGTON — The White House is expected to announce a new policy, based on guidance…
Opinion: Every American should wear a face mask to defeat Covid-19
To mask, or not to mask? That is the question. And it needs an answer…
Opinion: Invoking Bayh-Dole may be needed to get affordable Covid-19 treatments
As the Covid-19 pandemic strains the capacity of the U.S. health care system, attention is…
Opinion: If it comes to rationing, I shouldn’t have to be the one deciding who should live and who should die
Medical school didn’t teach me how to decide which of my patients should live and…
A system to allocate scarce ventilators and ICU beds gains traction for not counting any group out
Bracing for a surge of Covid-19 patients and facing shortages of the resources necessary to…
Covid-19 spreads too fast for traditional contact tracing. New digital tools could help
Every strategy for releasing Covid-19’s vise-grip on daily life starts with identifying cases and tracing…
Tech companies are stepping up in the coronavirus pandemic response. Here’s how they’re dedicating resources
Tech giants are stepping up to the plate to play a part in the coronavirus…
Opinion: Navigating the Covid-19 pandemic: We’re just clambering into a life raft. Dry land is far away
Imagine you are in a small boat far, far from shore. A surprise storm capsizes…
Live chat today at 11 a.m ET: The coronavirus pandemic
With each passing day, we’re learning more about the coronavirus and the disease it causes,…
Amid coronavirus, private equity-backed company slashes benefits for emergency room doctors
WASHINGTON — A private equity-backed health care company is slashing its doctors’ benefits in response…
New effort aims to provide Covid-19 resources to non-English speakers in U.S.
Covid-19 is impacting lives across the U.S., and health officials are racing to provide communities…
‘Human experts will make the call’: Stanford launches an accelerated test of AI to help care for Covid-19 patients
In the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford clinicians and researchers are exploring whether artificial intelligence…
Opinion: Lessons from a different war for preventing moral injury among clinicians treating Covid-19
One week after President George W. Bush declared war in Iraq in 2003, I was…
The coronavirus is washing over the U.S. These factors will determine how bad it gets in each community
On March 15, the governor of Washington called the Seattle area the “hotbed of this…
Rudy Giuliani wants FDA to fast-track a stem cell therapy for Covid-19; critics see political meddling
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, is urging the Food and Drug Administration to fast-track…
A new Covid-19 problem: Shortages of medicines needed for placing patients on ventilators
On top of the overwhelming shortages of medical equipment required to combat Covid-19, there are…
Opinion: Create a cadre of community health workers to fight Covid-19 in the U.S.
Five years ago, I was working in Kono, a district in Sierra Leone, on projects…
Opinion: A radical approach to preventing Covid-19 infection in the homeless
There is only a small window of time in which we can prevent widespread transmission…
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We shouldn’t rush to use an unproven drug to treat the coronavirus
As the pandemic deepens, physicians face an agonizing decision — to medicate or not to…
Opinion: Covid-19 testing: overcoming challenges in the next phase of the epidemic
Which is a better proxy for estimating the Covid-19 infection rate in the United States:…
As coronavirus impact grows, volunteer network tries to help health care workers who have ‘helped us’
It started with a need: With the closure of schools and a shortage of household…
STAT’s guide to how hospitals are using AI to fight Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly accelerated the nation’s slow-moving effort to incorporate artificial intelligence into…
As coronavirus spreads, doctors in the ER warn ‘the worst of it has not hit us yet’
Streets in cities and towns across the country are eerily quiet. Car traffic has dropped…
Test makers are moving fast, but the coronavirus may be moving faster
In Lake Success, a village on the border of suburban Long Island and the New…
What explains Covid-19’s lethality for the elderly? Scientists look to ‘twilight’ of the immune system
Researchers on Monday announced the most comprehensive estimates to date of elderly people’s elevated risk…
Opinion: It’s past time to fully deploy the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps to fight Covid-19
Controlling a pandemic like Covid-19 requires both the intervention of government agencies and changes in…
CRISPR pioneer Doudna opens lab to run Covid-19 tests
A team of academic and industry researchers led by Jennifer Doudna, the researcher best known…
Watch: Ventilators are in high demand for Covid-19 patients. How do they work?
Ventilators are one of the most important tools hospitals have for keeping Covid-19 patients in…
Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans
A series of studies, starting as a steady drip and quickening to a deluge, has…
Two new road maps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns
With Covid-19 racing through the country, the United States is virtually locked down. At the…
Two new roadmaps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns
With Covid-19 racing through the country, the United States is virtually locked down. At the…
Opinion: Community health workers will be the main defense in rural Uganda against coronavirus
It is a cool, still morning in Seeta Nazigo Village, Central Uganda. The heavy seasonal…
In a time of distancing due to coronavirus, the health threat of loneliness looms
Dan Blazer and his wife were sheltering at home in North Carolina when their neighbors,…
Roche backpedals and agrees to provide a solution for Covid-19 tests in the Netherlands
In a startling about-face, Roche (RHHBY) has agreed to release the recipe for a liquid…
Opinion: Our best defense against Covid-19? Science
The United States gained a grim distinction in the world this week when it officially…
Pressure mounts to widen access to medical products that may combat Covid-19
As more companies gear up to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, a growing…
What if hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work? What if it does? Right now, we don’t know
An old malaria medicine, hydroxychloroquine, has gone viral on the internet. But is it really…
Opinion: Abandoned by U.S. leaders, the only Covid-19 protection I can count on in my emergency department is trust
I step through the sliding glass doors of my hospital’s emergency department and immediately look…
Covid-19 hasn’t yet hit India in a widespread way. But I saw more warnings there than I did in the U.S.
CHENNAI, India — I grab my grandfather’s cellphone to call the corner shop and make…
With masks dwindling, a hospital’s Covid-19 crisis team searches for a way out
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
The next frontier in coronavirus testing: Identifying the full scope of the pandemic, not just individual infections
Scientists are starting to roll out new blood tests for the coronavirus, a key development…
New reports raise possibility pregnant women can pass coronavirus to fetus, but risk is unclear
A trio of scientific reports about Covid-19 infections in pregnant women raises concerns that the…
‘Drug development is a long, long process’: pharma CEO in Italy sounds a note of caution on Covid-19
The CEO of a global pharmaceutical company’s operations in Italy has advice for anyone expecting…
‘We’re racing against the clock:’ Researchers test wearables as an early warning system for Covid-19
Researchers at two prominent California universities launched ambitious new studies this week to test whether…
The Covid-19 Tracker
As the virus that causes Covid-19 spreads worldwide, this dashboard offers a snapshot of the…