Doctors ‘keep an open mind’ about unproven coronavirus drug, but worry it could do more harm than good
SAN FRANCISCO — For President Trump, whether Covid-19 patients should take a once-obscure malaria drug…
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Who gets hospitalized for Covid-19? Report shows differences by race and sex
The first federal report on who requires hospital care for Covid-19 in the U.S. has…
International trial uses AI to rapidly identify optimal Covid-19 treatments
Treating patients with the never-before-seen Covid-19 is forcing doctors to choose between two equally unpalatable…
Opinion: Learning about epidemic response from sub-Saharan African countries
In 2014, as one of us (A.T.D.) lay dying in an Ebola treatment center in…
With diving gear and plumbing supplies, California labs fashion Covid-19 masks and ventilators
LOS ANGELES — In early March, Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash was attending a conference in…
‘We’re being put at risk unnecessarily’: Doctors fume at government response to coronavirus pandemic
LOS ANGELES — Even before the pandemic, burnout, anxiety, and disillusionment were already endemic in…
Opinion: CDC: remember who you are
Public health wins are quiet — the child born healthy, the loved one still safe,…
With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19
Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical…
New research examines wastewater to detect community spread of Covid-19
A series of crucial setbacks in Covid-19 testing has made it difficult to keep up…
A $30 billion gamble: Pandemic expert calls for making Covid-19 vaccines before we know they work
There’s a one-word exit strategy for the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, which is crippling economies around…
‘We’re flying blind’: African Americans may be bearing the brunt of Covid-19, but access to data are limited
Stark statistics are coming to light only now and only in piecemeal fashion showing that…
Gilead ramps up production of experimental Covid-19 treatment amid criticism over access
In response to intensifying demand, Gilead Sciences has been ramping up production of its experimental remdesivir…
CDC launches studies to get more precise count of undetected Covid-19 cases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun preliminary studies to try to determine…
An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes the coronavirus pandemic…
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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…
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…
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…
STAT Plus: CDC credits a sharp decline in C. diff infections to checklists and better antibiotic stewardship
The rate of Americans contracting potentially fatal Clostridium difficile bacterial infections in hospitals fell between…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Covid-19’s resurgence in Hong Kong holds a lesson: Defeating it demands persistence
As a mysterious virus raced through Wuhan, China, 570 miles to the north, residents in…
What we’ve learned about the coronavirus — and what we still need to know
As we approach the three-month mark since we all learned about a new virus triggering…
When can we let up? Health experts craft strategies to safely relax coronavirus lockdowns
With countries from Italy to the U.S. having waited too long to combat the coronavirus,…
Opinion: In a pandemic, hospital staffers need to get better at hand-washing
After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by…
A sports medicine office morphs into a coronavirus clinic, braced for the onslaught
First in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The doctor…
Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China
Even as the Covid-19 outbreak has already overwhelmed some U.S. hospitals, in many cities anxious…
Opinion: Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic highlights the critical need for rapid development of vaccines and antiviral…
Opinion: The white scarf on the door: a life-saving lesson from the 1918 Spanish flu
In 1918, a white scarf tied to the door of my grandmother’s family’s apartment on…
Why President Trump is at odds with his medical experts over using malaria drugs against Covid-19
One of the most wrenching questions in medicine has been playing out to garish effect…
Gilead suspends access to experimental Covid-19 drug due to ‘overwhelming demand’
Gilead Sciences has temporarily stopped granting patients access to remdesivir, its experimental drug against the…
New coronavirus test returns results in 45 minutes, but it may be limited to hospitals
A new diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus will return results in just 45 minutes,…
A plea from doctors in Italy: To avoid Covid-19 disaster, treat more patients at home
A dozen physicians at the epicenter of Italy’s Covid-19 outbreak issued a plea to the…
At-home tests for coronavirus are here. Should you take them?
With delays in testing hampering the country’s ability to accurately track the new coronavirus and…
Understanding what works: How some countries are beating back the coronavirus
With Europe and the United States locked in deadly battle with the coronavirus that causes…
Listen: Trump’s coronavirus pivot, life inside the ICU, drug development in a pandemic
Why did the U.S. change its tune on coronavirus? What’s it like to be an…
An updated guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development
In the months since the novel coronavirus rose from a regional crisis to a global…
Drug makers are racing to develop immune therapies for Covid-19. Will they be ready in time?
In the 1995 movie “Outbreak,” doctors whip up a serum from monkey blood in just…
Coronavirus survives on surfaces up to 72 hours. Here’s how to protect yourself
Viruses didn’t become ubiquitous by being wimps: From the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold…
WHO to launch multinational trial to jumpstart search for coronavirus drugs
The World Health Organization said Wednesday that it would launch a multi-arm, multi-country clinical trial…
New analysis of coronavirus risk confirms young adults are not invincible
As the Covid-19 pandemic takes an ever-larger toll across the world, researchers are expanding their…
‘It’s been kind of rough’: At the epicenter of the pandemic, a Seattle ICU nurse treats two patients at a time
Stephanie Bandyk is on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic: A registered nurse who…
Opinion: We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start
In a recent and controversial First Opinion, epidemiologist and statistician John Ioannidis argues that we…
Opinion: Allocate ventilators, other Covid-19 resources based on evidence, not political hunches
The emergence of Covid-19 and its worldwide spread has some of the United States’ top…
Opinion: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also…