Public health group calls for standardized data collection to more clearly track Covid-19
In a new review of the Covid-19 response across the country, a group of public…
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Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows
The true number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. could be anywhere from six to…
Trump said more Covid-19 testing ‘creates more cases.’ We did the math
The counter-narrative began almost instantly. After the U.S. count of Covid-19 cases began an inexorable…
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Civil War vaccination kits, discovered in a drawer, yield genetic clues to how smallpox was defeated
As the world anxiously pins its hopes on vaccines to halt the coronavirus pandemic, scientists…
A silver lining to the pandemic response? Doctors hope to see fewer cases of a polio-like condition that affects children
If the pattern from recent history holds, starting next month, doctors in the U.S. will…
NIH Director Francis Collins defends Fauci amid White House criticism
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, defended the beleaguered…
How HHS’s new hospital data reporting system will actually affect the U.S. Covid-19 response
WASHINGTON — It’s a fight over something as seemingly mundane as government data collection. But…
Once a relic of medical history, radiation emerges as an intriguing — and divisive — treatment for Covid-19
Back in 2013, toxicologist Edward Calabrese and a colleague at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,…
U.S. must spend $75 billion to fix flawed Covid-19 testing, report says
The U.S. should invest $75 billion in order to fix its badly flawed system of…
Opinion: A national mandatory order to wear a mask would keep people from becoming ‘walking weapons’
Although lawmakers are engaged with many long-delayed, vital components of a comprehensive federal response to…
The U.S. is the accidental Sweden, which could make the fall ‘catastrophic’ for Covid-19
With the Covid-19 pandemic rampaging across the U.S. in April and 20 million people filing…
If everyone wore a mask, Covid-19 could be brought under control, CDC director urges
The two hair stylists in Springfield, Mo., broke the cardinal rule of infection control: Despite…
Opinion: Fauci’s strategy for effective public health advocacy: ‘You cannot be ideological’
Public health and politics have always been intertwined. Think abortion and reproductive rights. One prominent…
What’s next for Anthony Fauci, if the White House continues to sour on him?
WASHINGTON — The White House in recent days has accelerated an effort that President Trump…
How to fix the Covid-19 dumpster fire in the U.S.
There’s no point in sugar-coating this. The U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic is a…
Virtual Event: Protecting residents of nursing homes from pandemics
Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. …
A disease detective is thrust onto the frontlines of WHO’s Covid-19 response
People who know Maria Van Kerkhove describe her as someone who has worked her whole…
Trump administration submits formal notice of withdrawal from WHO
The United States has formally notified the United Nations that it is withdrawing from the…
Proposed changes to lung cancer screening guidance could increase scans among Black patients, women
A prominent panel of physicians and other medical experts recommended Tuesday that a wider swath…
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AIDS report: Kids are lagging and Covid-19 is harming care
New numbers on the global AIDS epidemic show some big successes, such as fewer deaths…
Public health experts urge socially distant Fourth of July celebrations, as the coronavirus surges across the U.S.
Some communities are being preemptive: Los Angeles and Miami closed their beaches, New York City…
Fever checks are a flawed way to flag Covid-19 cases. Experts say smell tests might help
Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars,…
Does asthma increase Covid-19 risk? Emerging research suggests a complicated connection
A growing body of research on Covid-19 suggests that the virus’ link to asthma is…
No one wants to go back to lockdown. Is there a middle ground for containing Covid-19?
First came the freezes. Governors last month started to “press pause” on the next phases…
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The hospital’s…
Researchers report nearly 300 cases of mysterious syndrome tied to Covid-19 in kids
Two U.S. research groups have reported finding nearly 300 cases of an alarming apparent side…
STAT Plus: How Gilead’s remdesivir price could come back to haunt the drug industry
Gilead Sciences, in a self-described effort to do “the right and responsible thing,” may have…
U.S. withdrawal from WHO threatens to leave it ‘flying blind’ on flu vaccines
Twice a year, influenza experts from 10 institutions around the world meet at the World…
As Covid-19 cases surge, Pence touts progress made from earlier peaks
As criticism mounts that the White House has turned a blind eye to the worsening…
Opinion: Death threats, shoves, and throwing blood: Anti-vaxxers’ bullying of public health officials endangers our country
False claims. Racist and violent memes. Threats. Physical attacks. Public health advocates across the country…
Safer reopening will require millions more Covid-19 tests per day. One solution: ‘pool testing’
If the country wants to crank up its Covid-19 testing capacity into the millions —…
When Covid-19 hits the brain, it can cause strokes, psychosis and a dementia-like syndrome, new survey shows
A new survey reveals a wide range of serious psychiatric and neurological complications tied to…
Hospitals see shortages of a cheap steroid that one study says helps Covid-19 patients
After preliminary release of a study found that a cheap steroid reduced deaths by a…
Health officers sound alarm as California economy reopens
Health officials in a San Francisco Bay Area county that was among the most aggressive…
Second deadliest Ebola outbreak on record is days from being declared over
It hasn’t been the longest, nor has it been the deadliest. But the Ebola outbreak…
Trump says Covid-19 is ‘dying out.’ Experts fear his dismissiveness could prolong the crisis
WASHINGTON — The White House is taking a new position on the coronavirus pandemic: a…
WHO drops hydroxychloroquine from Covid-19 clinical trial
The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it was dropping the malaria medicine hydroxychloroquine from…
Rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations underscore the long road ahead
The U.S. is now confronting what public health experts have been warning about but many…
STAT+ Conversations: A discussion with Dr. Ashish Jha
Editor’s note: The live stream of this conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m….
To understand who’s dying of Covid-19, look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases
While early studies of who was dying of Covid-19 identified risks such as obesity and…
‘Obsessed with staying alive’: Inmates describe a prison’s piecemeal response to a fatal Covid-19 outbreak
Roderick Keith Dirden has been trying for months to get out of an overcrowded dormitory…
Trump’s decision to leave WHO came with bluster, but no action so far
Nearly two weeks have passed since President Trump announced he was withdrawing the United States…
Activists, artists, and public health academics collaborate to tackle racism’s impact on heath
As it became clear that Covid-19 was disproportionately infecting and killing people of color in…
Immunity to the coronavirus remains a mystery. Scientists are trying to crack the case
Scientists stress that just because someone has recovered from Covid-19 and produced antibodies to the…
‘We don’t actually have that answer yet’: WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic spread of Covid-19
A top World Health Organization official clarified on Tuesday that scientists have not determined yet…
Positive Covid-19 tests kept a mom and baby apart for weeks. Experts say it’s a sign of a bigger testing problem
The very premature infant was born via cesarean section and quickly whisked away to the…
CDC: Some Americans are misusing cleaning products — including drinking them — in effort to kill coronavirus
To try to kill the novel coronavirus, some Americans are unsafely using disinfectants and cleaners,…
Opinion: Contact tracing technology must protect people from discrimination as well as disease
South Korea confirmed dozens of new Covid-19 cases last month, most of them linked to…
How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again
Even as Americans fight (and even kill) over the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic,…
WHO resuming hydroxychloroquine study for Covid-19, after reviewing safety concerns
The World Health Organization is resuming a clinical trial exploring whether the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine…