Lower death rate estimates for coronavirus, especially for non-elderly, provide glimmer of hope
In a rare piece of good news about Covid-19, a team of infectious disease experts…
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In strictest U.S. coronavirus response so far, six Bay Area counties order ‘shelter in place’
Six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday announced a “shelter in place”…
To spur new AI tools to fight coronavirus, tech leaders launch open database of scientific articles
Five organizations on Monday released a new open dataset of over 29,000 scientific articles published…
Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in the coming weeks
Spurred by reports of doctors in Italy rationing ventilators for coronavirus patients and of overwhelmed…
The new coronavirus can likely remain airborne for some time. That doesn’t mean we’re doomed
When a new virus blasts out of the animals that harbored it and into people,…
As coronavirus pandemic worsens, health officials fear nationalization of drugs and supplies
An allegation that the Trump administration tried to secure exclusive rights to the production of…
Trump administration says it will launch mobile coronavirus test system this week
WASHINGTON — The federal government will roll out a nationwide coronavirus testing system at mobile…
Rollout of Verily coronavirus triage tool Monday will be more limited than Trump seemed to suggest
Verily, the Google spinout focused on life sciences, on Monday will launch an online screening…
Trump expands coronavirus travel ban to U.K. and Ireland, hints at domestic restrictions
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Saturday announced it would prevent non-Americans in the U.K….
Opinion: Medical students can help combat Covid-19. Don’t send them home
Last week, while seeing a patient in the emergency department of Stanford Hospital, I witnessed…
Thermo Fisher to produce millions of coronavirus diagnostic tests
Thermo Fisher, the largest maker of scientific tools, said Friday it plans to produce up…
Hospital workers across the U.S. present sharply different pictures of their preparedness for the coronavirus
U.S. hospitals are bracing for an onslaught of patients sickened by the new coronavirus, shoring…
Coronavirus testing is starting to get better — but it has a long way to go
Friday morning a ray of light cracked through the ominous cloud of the pandemic caused…
Listen: Voices from the coronavirus pandemic, in Italy, New York, and the high seas
How long will this pandemic persist? Are U.S. hospitals going to be overwhelmed? And what’s…
STAT Plus: Two dead, four hospitalized after receiving Open Biome stool transplants
Two people died and four were hospitalized after they received stool transplants from OpenBiome, the…
Q&A: How to care for the elderly without putting them at risk of coronavirus
While the coronavirus outbreak poses health risks for everyone, officials have made clear that the…
7 reasons why it’s hard to control your coronavirus anxiety
The novel coronavirus has a long list of terrifying characteristics, spurring people from Japan to…
Researchers rush to test coronavirus vaccine in people without knowing how well it works in animals
As they race to test an experimental coronavirus vaccine, researchers aren’t waiting to see how…
Opinion: The spread of Covid-19 and the Boston Marathon: We can run another day
It’s my job to think about the novel coronavirus. As a journalist at STAT, I’ve…
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WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging…
Why ‘flattening the curve’ may be the world’s best bet to slow the coronavirus
For many countries staring down fast-rising coronavirus case counts, the race is on to “flatten…
Shortage of crucial chemicals creates new obstacle to U.S. coronavirus testing
The push to increase testing in the U.S. for the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19…
U.S. communities are braced for coronavirus outbreaks. Seattle is already in the thick of it
SEATTLE — As much of the United States prepares to see large clusters of Covid-19,…
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…
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Watch: In prescient move, Bill Gates urged Trump to invest in pandemic preparedness two years ago
In words that now seem prescient, Bill Gates said in an interview with STAT two…
$125M effort to find coronavirus drugs started by Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the charitable group Wellcome and Mastercard, announced…
People ‘shed’ high levels of coronavirus, study finds, but most are likely not infectious after recovery begins
People who contract the novel coronavirus emit high amounts of virus very early on in…
Opinion: Doctors working while sick is bad enough in ordinary times. During the Covid-19 outbreak it could be catastrophic
Earlier this winter, before the coronavirus outbreak, I spoke by phone with a colleague who…
How touching your face can spread viruses — and why you’re so bad at avoiding it
With the outbreak of Covid-19, health care professionals are urging people to regularly refrain from…
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…
We’re learning a lot about the coronavirus. It will help us assess risk
It has been two months since China announced a previously unknown virus had been identified…
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…
Opinion: A coronavirus vaccine should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it
As the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads in more than 60 countries, the race to…
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…
Opinion: Doctors need to embrace the ‘power of yet’
I believe in the power of yet. Doctors should, too, especially the one who used…
Washington State risks seeing explosion in coronavirus without dramatic action, new analysis says
The coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area is at a critical juncture and could see…
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…
The coronavirus exposes our health care system’s weaknesses. We can be stronger
A coronavirus is so tiny that 1,000 of them could be stacked in the thickness…
‘Speed is critical’: As coronavirus spreads in U.S., officials face daunting task of tracing case contacts
This weekend, as it became clearer and clearer that Covid-19 has been spreading stealthily through…
Trump administration expands coronavirus travel ban to include Iran
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Saturday announced it would expand an existing ban on…
New coronavirus cases in California and Oregon likely from community spread
The new coronavirus may to be spreading in parts of Northern California and Oregon, with…
California reports a second coronavirus case, likely from community spread
Health authorities in California have discovered a second person infected with the new coronavirus who…
Opinion: The coronavirus ‘infodemic’ is real. We rated the websites responsible for it
The coronavirus has spawned an infodemic. That’s the World Health Organization’s term for the conspiracies,…
Telehealth can help fight the novel coronavirus, but U.S. challenges could limit its potential
As the world braces for the spread of disease caused by the new coronavirus, public…
A single coronavirus case exposes a bigger problem: The scope of undetected U.S. spread is unknown
The discovery that a California woman was likely infected with the novel coronavirus by a…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Gilead accelerates coronavirus trial; FDA says coronavirus vaccine will take time
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. This is a fast-paced…
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…
Coronavirus vaccines are far off, FDA official says, but drugs to treat patients could come sooner
NEW YORK — New drugs to treat patients already infected with the novel coronavirus, which…
Opinion: Will the newest pill for HIV prevention fuel progress — or profits?
Four decades after the HIV epidemic began, there’s finally hope it might end. Indeed, “Getting…
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…