People who have recovered from Covid-19 may lose their immunity to the disease within months, according to research suggesting the virus could reinfect people year after year, like common colds. In th
Trump’s Health Officials Warn More Will Die as Covid Cases Rise They struck a sober note on Sunday’s news programs, strongly urging the vast majority of people in hard-hit cities and states to wear ma
Pittsburgh Seemed Like a Virus Success Story. Now Cases Are Surging. Pittsburgh, a sister city to Wuhan, China, saw only modest cases for months. In the last two weeks, cases are suddenly soaring. Peo
68% Have Antibodies in This Clinic. Can a Neighborhood Beat a Next Wave? Data from those tested at a storefront medical office in Queens is leading to a deeper understanding of the outbreak’s scope in
Who Gets a Vaccine First? U.S. Considers Race in Coronavirus Plans When a vaccine hits the market, it will be a key tool in putting an end to the pandemic. A federal committee is debating giving early
Airborne Coronavirus: What You Should Do Now How to protect yourself from a virus that may be floating indoors? Better ventilation, for starters. And keep wearing those masks. Customers at the Goldeng
W.H.O. to Review Evidence of Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus The World Health Organization plans to update its advice after hundreds of experts urged the agency to reconsider the risk of aerosol
Reopening is a mess. Photographs of crowds jostling outside bars, patrons returning to casinos, and a tightly packed, largely maskless audience listening to President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Ru
239 Experts With One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne The W.H.O. has resisted mounting evidence that viral particles floating indoors are infectious, some scientists say. The agency maintains th
Published 4 July 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Per capita, Japan has more elderly than any other country in the world By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, Toky
matter Most People With Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many? Growing evidence shows most infected people aren’t spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably d
Published 30 June 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The new flu strain is similar to the swine flu that spread globally in 2009 By Michelle Roberts Health editor,
As Virus Surges, Younger People Account for ‘Disturbing’ Number of Cases People in their 20s, 30s and 40s account for a growing proportion of the cases in many places, raising fears that asymptomatic
T he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday broadened its warning about who is at risk of developing severe disease from Covid-19 infection, suggesting even younger people who are obes
If there is anything Americans have learned since 9/11, it is to be deeply skeptical of leaders who begin a sentence with: “If we have learned anything from the attacks on 9/11.” The assertion that fo
Mutation Allows Coronavirus to Infect More Cells, Study Finds. Scientists Urge Caution. Geneticists said more evidence is needed to determine if a common genetic variation of the virus spreads more ea
You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long. Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears. Medica
Study Finds 1 in 5 People Worldwide at Risk of Severe Covid-19 Roughly 1.7 billion people have at least one of the underlying health conditions that can worsen cases of the coronavirus, a new analysis
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Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom’s next visitor. By
World Residents of capital had started to relax after weeks without new locally transmitted cases; ‘Oh my God, again’ By Sha Hua June 15, 2020 11:20 am ET Officials in Beijing have responded to the la
Health & Wellness Playing with peers has important developmental benefits, and doctors worry that children are missing out on them now. June 15, 2020 11:56 am ET Pediatricians and psychologists are ra
6 Min Read NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as “the world’s salad bowl,” outbreaks of the
Published 9 June 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Rachel Schraer Health reporter How much coronavirus transmission comes from people with no symptoms is still a "big unknown
How to End Pandemic Fights With Your Partner Couples’ fights in lockdown are often about the unremitting intensity of togetherness. The sooner you de-escalate a fight, the sooner you can begin working
When will life return to normal? This is the answer of epidemiologists, as embroidered by one of them, Melissa Sharp. Eve Edelheit for The New York Times Many epidemiologists are already comfortable g
After months of deserted public spaces and empty roads, Americans have returned to the streets. But they have come not for a joyous reopening to celebrate the country’s victory over the coronavirus. I
As governments ease up on COVID-19-related lockdowns, policy-makers should heed the lessons learned from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the potential deadly consequences of removing physical distan
CNN — New cases of the novel coronavirus are rising faster than ever worldwide, at a rate of more than 100,000 a day over a seven-day average. In April, new cases never topped 100,000 in one day, but
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has dominated news cycles for months, and with good reason. This virus has shown itself to be both highly contagious and very deadly, leading to large-scale public hea
Covid-19 May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything Many of the infection’s bizarre symptoms have one thing in common Published in Elemental · 8 min read · May 29, 2020 -- Image: MR.Cole
Published 31 May 2020 Share page About sharing By David Shukman Science editor As the crisis has unfolded, scientists have discovered more evidence about a strange and worrying feature of the coronavi
Migrant workers in New Delhi waiting to return to their home state of Uttar Pradesh, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus in India. Credit... Adnan Abidi/Reuter
Testing Is Key to Beating Coronavirus, Right? Japan Has Other Ideas The country has reported fewer deaths than other major nations and ended a state of emergency even while maintaining a low testing r
The coronavirus still has a long way to go. That’s the message from a crop of new studies across the world that are trying to quantify how many people have been infected. Official case counts often su
The Price of a Virus Lockdown: Economic ‘Free Fall’ in California California’s strengths — as a hub for commerce, tourism and education in the Pacific Rim — have become liabilities in the pandemic. Na
As coronavirus lockdowns loosen and some Americans flock to restaurants, beaches, and other outdoor spaces for Memorial Day weekend, the question of reopening too quickly is striking an eerily familia
World As Covid-19 cases mount, doctors are seeing patients who are experiencing symptoms like seizures, hallucinations and loss of smell and taste April 14, 2020 4:28 pm ET Paramedics taking a coronav
Surfaces Are ‘Not the Main Way’ Coronavirus Spreads, C.D.C. Says If you’re worried about wiping down grocery bags or disinfecting mailed packages, this C.D.C. guidance might bring some relief. It’s no
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