CDC developing serologic tests that could reveal full scope of U.S. coronavirus outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing tests that could provide public health…
Category: global health
Opinion: What does the coronavirus mean for the U.S. health care system? Some simple math offers alarming answers
Much of the current discourse on — and dismissal of — the Covid-19 outbreak focuses…
The coronavirus outbreak has left medical supplies in short supply. Is the nation’s emergency stockpile ready to help?
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has a secretive, $7 billion stash of emergency medical equipment…
Coronavirus spread could last into next year, but impact could be blunted, CDC official says
A top federal health official said Monday that the evolving coronavirus outbreak could persist in…
To develop a coronavirus vaccine, synthetic biologists try to outdo nature
Even as companies rush to develop and test vaccines against the new coronavirus, the Bill…
At Harvard forum, three who know warn of ‘most daunting virus’ in half a century
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a veteran epidemiologist, an authority on homeland security, and a global…
Covid-19 epidemic forces cancellation of HIMSS health tech conference
The health care technology trade group HIMSS has canceled its annual conference for the first…
From ferrets to mice and marmosets, labs scramble to find right animals for coronavirus studies
One lab is digging into its freezer to thaw out the archived sperm of SARS-susceptible…
WHO: Coronavirus is different from influenza, and that means it can be contained
Top officials at the World Health Organization this week have sought to differentiate the spreading…
Who is getting sick, and how sick? A breakdown of coronavirus risk by demographic factors
The new coronavirus is not an equal-opportunity killer: Being elderly and having other illnesses, for…
Trump’s tone toward pharma shifts, as he looks to drug makers to help with coronavirus response
WASHINGTON — President Trump had billed the meeting with pharmaceutical executives as a scolding waiting…
A detailed guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development
In the months since the novel coronavirus rose from a regional crisis to a global…
Opinion: Research in the time of coronavirus: keep it ethical
The sudden outbreak of Covid-19, a disease caused by a new coronavirus, is proving to…
A critical question in getting a handle on coronavirus: What role do kids play in spreading it?
Among the many, many unknowns about the new coronavirus: What role do children play in…
Trump’s no stranger to misinformation. But with the coronavirus, experts say that’s dangerous
Mixed messages and misinformation aren’t out of the ordinary in the Trump administration. But at…
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New data from China buttress fears about high coronavirus fatality rate, WHO expert says
One of the hopes of people watching China’s coronavirus outbreak was that the alarming picture…
Coronavirus cases among health workers climb, underscoring the chaos on an outbreak’s front lines
Thousands of health care workers, largely in China, have been infected amid the ongoing coronavirus…
A Chinese biotech partners with GSK to boost its coronavirus vaccine development
A Chinese biotech has taken up vaccine maker GSK’s offer to share its vaccine-boosting platform…
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The coronavirus is picking up steam outside China, narrowing chances of eliminating it
There are worrying signs the coronavirus outbreak is entering a new phase, with spread outside…
Once widely criticized, the Wuhan quarantine bought the world time to prepare for Covid-19
“Could cause panic.” “Will not help end the crisis.” “Could backfire.” When the Chinese government…
The global responders: Who is leading the charge against the coronavirus outbreak
As concerns mount over the coronavirus that first emerged in China, public health officials there…
Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good
At least 550,000 cases. Maybe 4.4 million. Or something in between. Like weather forecasters, researchers…
CDC director: More person-to-person coronavirus infections in U.S. likely, but containment still possible
Health officials believe there is still opportunity to prevent widespread transmission of the coronavirus in…
Understanding pandemics: What they mean, don’t mean, and what comes next with the coronavirus
The word “pandemic” is not a comforting one. And yet it is increasingly being bandied…
Major drug makers haven’t stepped up to manufacture coronavirus vaccine, top U.S. health official says
WASHINGTON — No major pharmaceutical company has come forward to say it would manufacture a…
STAT Plus: WHO adviser says an antimicrobial fund can help a market that ‘needs to be fixed’
Over the past month, the World Health Organization and the Access to Medicines Foundation issued…
Disease caused by the novel coronavirus officially has a name: Covid-19.
The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name: Covid-19. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the…
Opinion: Hospitals, governments need more data to prepare for the new coronavirus outbreak
In the six weeks since an outbreak of a novel coronavirus was first recognized in…
Fluctuating funding and flagging interest hurt coronavirus research, leaving crucial knowledge gaps
Journalists covering the emergence and spread of the new coronavirus in China are awash with…
WHO cautions that transmission of the new coronavirus outside of China could increase
The World Health Organization’s director-general cautioned Saturday that transmission of the new coronavirus outside of…
‘We’re definitely not prepared’: Africa braces for new coronavirus
LUSAKA, Zambia — At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who…
Opinion: To maximize progress in global health, invest more in community health workers
Anna Mzeru’s day shifts as a nurse in a clinic in the Bagamoyo region of…
Opinion: Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV exposes a flaw in the Nagoya Protocol
As the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV increases each day, scientists…
High-profile report on asymptomatic spread of coronavirus based on faulty information, health officials say
A high-profile scientific paper that found that a patient with the new coronavirus had transmitted…
Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained
With the new coronavirus spreading from person to person (possibly including from people without symptoms),…
Top WHO official says it’s not too late to stop the new coronavirus outbreak
There is still reason to believe the growing coronavirus outbreak in China can be contained,…
U.S. to quarantine all U.S. citizens evacuated from Wuhan, as CDC raises pandemic possibility
U.S. health officials said Friday they would forcibly quarantine 195 U.S. citizens who were evacuated…
Study documents first case of coronavirus spread by a person showing no symptoms
People showing no symptoms appear to be able to spread the novel coronavirus that has…
WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency
The World Health Organization on Thursday declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global…
WHO to reconvene emergency committee to assess global coronavirus threat
The leader of the World Health Organization said Wednesday he will convene another meeting of…
In coronavirus response, AI is becoming a useful tool in a global outbreak, data experts say
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Artificial intelligence…
TB vaccines can vary greatly, study finds. But does that mean some are less protective?
It all started with a bit of bacteria swiped from the udder of a tuberculous…
The coronavirus questions that scientists are racing to answer
The outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China and its spread to more than a…
Opinion: Bird flu. SARS. China coronavirus. Is history repeating itself?
HONG KONG — Sometimes history seems to unspool in a continuous playback loop. That is…
DNA sleuths read the coronavirus genome, tracing its origins and looking for dangerous mutations
As infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists race to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus…
New coronavirus can cause infections with no symptoms and sicken otherwise healthy people, studies show
Two papers published Friday in the journal the Lancet offer some of the first rigorous…
Precautions are in place. Now U.S. hospitals and states ready for more cases of novel virus from China
It seemed like it was only a matter of time. Even before the first U.S….
Four ‘generations’ of spread seen with virus in China, alarming experts
Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained…
WHO declines to declare China virus outbreak a global health emergency
The World Health Organization on Thursday declined to designate the ongoing outbreak of a novel…
Researchers have already grown miniature brains and lungs. Next up: snake venom gland organoids
It’s not every day that a press release for biomedical research conjures up the Barbasol…