‘Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus
When the CDC issued guidelines in early March asking people to wear masks to prevent…
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Top medical journals raise concerns about data in two studies related to Covid-19
Two of the world’s leading medical journals on Tuesday expressed concern about potential flaws in…
Trump: U.S. will terminate relationship with the World Health Organization in wake of Covid-19 pandemic
President Trump said Friday the U.S. would halt its funding of the World Health Organization…
When did the coronavirus start spreading in the U.S.? Likely in January, CDC analysis suggests
How early did local transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus begin in the United States? For…
Contact tracing could help avoid another lockdown. Can it work in the U.S.?
To contain the spread of Covid-19, Alaska is planning to triple its number of contact…
Wastewater testing gains support as an early warning system for Covid-19 cases
What only a month ago had been merely an intriguing laboratory finding about analyzing wastewater…
When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers
Early in the coronavirus outbreak, as the first infected patients trickled into Zuckerberg San Francisco…
As Covid-19 tears through Navajo Nation, young people step up to protect their elders
Michelle Tom stared into the screen. The Navajo doctor had just finished a grueling shift…
Life as a Covid-19 contact tracer: sleuthing, stress, and veering off-script
All Maddie Bender knew when she called the New Haven, Conn., family was that a…
Utah went all-in on an unproven Covid-19 treatment, then scrambled to course-correct
Even before President Trump started plugging chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatments, enthusiasm for the…
Opinion: Contact tracing must balance privacy and public health
Contact tracing armies in California and New Jersey. Rapid-response contact tracing in Washington. Track and…
Opinion: Testing everyone for Covid-19 doesn’t make sense. We need to test smarter, not harder
In response to calls for Covid-19 testing of the entire U.S. population, several large universities,…
Opinion: Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage
Covid-19 is a tragic infection that is killing hundreds of thousands of people around the…
Covid-19 experts lament dismissal of early warnings and disease’s impact on communities of color
From testing failures to downplayed virus risks to the disproportionate effect on communities of color,…
Gilead signs licenses for generic companies to make and sell remdesivir in 127 countries
Seeking to blunt concerns about access to its remdesivir treatment for Covid-19, Gilead Sciences (GILD)…
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Opinion: To put Covid-19 behind us, all Americans should be vaccinated against it
My work as an emergency medicine physician has taken me to urban and rural areas…
Routine vaccinations for U.S. children have plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic
Routine vaccination of children in the United States appeared to have declined dramatically in March…
What the world learned in eradicating smallpox: Unity mattered
Forty years ago, the world celebrated the vanquishing of a formidable foe, smallpox, which had…
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The porn industry tests and traces. Could it offer a model for reopening amid Covid-19?
LOS ANGELES — As states and employers furiously develop plans to safely reopen workplaces in…
A snapshot of coronavirus in the U.S.: A high plateau of new cases portends more spread
For all the talk of a second wave of coronavirus cases hitting the United States…
Amazon lends its expertise — and its cash — to Covid-19 research
Shipping behemoth Amazon is increasingly throwing its weight into the pandemic response, sharing its staff’s…
Doctors lambaste federal process for distributing Covid-19 drug remdesivir
Hospitals and physicians around the country are sharply criticizing the federal government for the uneven…
Doctors in Europe, New York report rare cases of pediatric inflammatory condition, possibly caused by coronavirus
Fifteen children in New York City have been hospitalized for what officials called a “multi-system…
New CRISPR-based test for Covid-19 could be a simple, cheap at-home diagnostic, scientists say
The revolutionary genetic technique better known for its potential to cure thousands of inherited diseases…
Efforts to beat back the coronavirus are critical. They’re also making clinical trials harder
In March, a team of Chinese scientists studying whether the antiviral remdesivir was effective against…
Three potential futures for Covid-19: recurring small outbreaks, a monster wave, or a persistent crisis
As epidemiologists attempt to scope out what Covid-19 has in store for the U.S. this…
Projecting Covid-19 death tolls is as difficult as ever. Comparing them to other causes of death is easier — and staggering
When STAT first compared projected U.S. deaths from Covid-19, in early April, there seemed to…
‘It doesn’t stay where you started’: Reopening some states heightens the risk of coronavirus surges in others
For all that’s still being discovered about the novel coronavirus, one thing was clear from…
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funds Bay Area effort to track coronavirus as the economy reopens
A new research initiative backed by pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark…
Opinion: We need the real CDC back, and we need it now
As political leaders discuss relaxing social distancing restrictions and opening up the economy again, a…
Many states are far short of Covid-19 testing levels needed for safe reopening, new analysis shows
More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing…
Opinion: Public-private partnerships for contact tracing can help stop Covid-19
As the biomedical community works to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, a national strategy…
Opinion: A ‘Swiss cheese’ approach can give us a second chance to contain Covid-19
Fifteen years ago, in response to the threat of H5N1 avian influenza, my team at…
The results of coronavirus ‘serosurveys’ are starting to be released. Here’s how to kick their tires
Results from the first studies designed to determine how widely the coronavirus has spread in…
‘It’s noisy’: Competing Covid-19 efforts could hamper progress, experts warn
As many of the most forward-thinking tech and biopharma behemoths — from Apple and Google…
An ousted vaccine agency director offers an explosive, direct allegation: Trump is politicizing science
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the U.S. official who was ousted this week from a post…
Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns
Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in…
Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns
Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in…
Director of U.S. agency key to helming vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, one of the nation’s leading vaccine development experts and the director…
How a coronavirus symptom checker came to steer patients to care from Texas to Estonia
When Covid-19 began spreading in the United States, Emory Healthcare was prepared in one way…
NIH Director Francis Collins on Tony Fauci, the WHO, and running a $39 billion research agency from home
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins hasn’t set foot on the National Institutes of Health’s campus in…
Everything we know about coronavirus immunity and antibodies — and plenty we still don’t
People who think they’ve been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests…
The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial
The response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and other countries has been…
Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies, critics say
A widely followed model for projecting Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. is producing results that…
Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment
A Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral medicine remdesivir in a…
Coronavirus pandemic threatens to take crushing toll on rural areas, data show
As the impact of the coronavirus crisis careens toward smaller towns and rural areas, a…
Covid-19 testing issues could sink plans to re-open the country. Might CT scans help?
To safely relax the chokehold that policies to control Covid-19 have on the economy, most…
Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests
Speaking calmly and at a normal volume produces liquid droplets so small they can remain…
WHO’s Tedros, expressing ‘regret’ over Trump move to cut funding, says his focus on is ‘saving lives’
The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday expressed “regret” that President Trump intends…
CDC director distances himself from Trump’s WHO criticism, saying the agencies ‘continue to have’ strong relationship
Just hours after President Trump announced his intention to cut off U.S. funding for the…