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Dr. Fauci says it's "obvious" that the U.S. government could have saved a great many lives if it had acted sooner to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Dan Robitzski

South Korean officials reported today that more than 116 people had tested positive for COVID-19 after having been cleared of it previously.
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By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Fauci acknowledged today that the US government is considering issuing "immunity cards" to identify those who are immune to COVID-19.
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By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that recovered COVID-19 patients will likely be immune to future infections because the coronavirus hasn't mutated much.
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By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates suspects that there will be another major viral outbreak every 20 years. But also that we'll emerge from the current pandemic more prepared.
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By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 has officially become the number one cause of death in the US, killing 1,970 Americans every day. It was the third leading cause only last week.
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By Victor Tangermann

A number of US companies are already selling tests that can detect the presence of COVID-19 fighting antibodies in a patient's bloodstream.
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By Victor Tangermann

Because enough people took self-isolation guidelines seriously, the U.S. now expects significantly fewer coronavirus-linked deaths over the next few months.
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By Dan Robitzski

New reports suggest that the U.S. military and federal government knew about the coronavirus outbreak as early as November.
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By Dan Robitzski

A video by Finnish researchers shows how aerosol particles released by a person in an indoor environment can spread much further than you could imagine.
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By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's top infectious disease experts, suggests that we should leave handshakes in the past.
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By Dan Robitzski

During a press briefing for the White House coronavirus task force, Trump threatened to pull funding for the WHO, but backtracked when he was challenged.
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By Dan Robitzski

In the U.S., the coronavirus has disproportionately killed those in black communities, illustrating the dire impacts of the country's racial inequalities.
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By Dan Robitzski

A recent study found that as many as one in five COVID-19 patients experienced cardiac damage, leading to heart failure, and in some instances, death.
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By Victor Tangermann

British PM Boris Johnson has been taken to the intesive care at around seven o'clock, UK time. First Secretary of State Dominic Raab to deputise.
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By Victor Tangermann

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea may face a second wave of COVID-19 cases as international travel brings the coronavirus back into the country.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scammers are capitalizing on coronavirus pandemic by setting up fake testing sites to steal identities or hoarding crucial medical supplies.
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By Dan Robitzski

A paper published in Nature, argues that "surgical face masks could prevent transmission of human coronaviruses and influenza viruses from symptomatic individuals."
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By Victor Tangermann

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo explained on the air that his case of COVID-19 has been keeping him up at night and making him hallucinate.
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By Dan Robitzski

A scientific panel told White House officials that the coronavirus can be spread not just through coughs and sneezes, but speaking and breathing as well.
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By Victor Tangermann

Experts believe that World War II veteran Bill Lapschies maynow be the world's oldest survivor of the coronavirus currently causing a global pandeic.
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By Jon Christian

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
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By Jon Christian

Anonymous intelligence officials say that there's evidence China systematically downplayed the size and severity of its coronavirus outbreak.
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By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates: US “Missed the Opportunity” to Prevent Catastrophe
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By Victor Tangermann

That public health guideline to stay six feet apart from others is based on 90-year-old-reseach. We now know viruses can spread much farther.
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By Dan Robitzski

In a grim milestone, the coronavirus has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda did on the September 11 terror attack in 2001.
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By Jon Christian

New parents report a number of unexpected challenges, chaos, and confusion as a result of giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Dan Robitzski

A 101-year-old man in Rimini, Italy born during the 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic tested positive for coronavirus — and was just released. He made it.
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By Foster Kamer

Emergency physician Joshua Lerner says that America's response to the coronavirus pandemic is so bad it reminds him of the Chernobyl disaster.
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By Dan Robitzski

The George Washington University Hospital has released a 3D video of a 59-year-old male COVID-19 patient's lungs days after showing no coronavirus symptoms.
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By Victor Tangermann

Reuters reports that a number of research teams are zeroing in on a blood test to identify whether your body has developed immunity against the coronavirus.
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By Jon Christian

Microsoft co-founder and public health advocate Bill Gates has a gloomy message about the COVID-19 pandemic: We missed our chance to mitigate harm.
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By Jon Christian

The Indian government just announced that the country will enter a total lockdown for three weeks to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities have announced they will be lifting the lockdown on Wuhan, epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, on April 8.
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By Victor Tangermann

IBM's Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has identified 77 drug compounds that could stop the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

Good news for a tired world: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, both of whom tested positive for the coronavirus, are now on the mend.
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By Jon Christian

Research teams around the world are trying to develop blood tests for the coronavirus, but so far no one has figured it out.
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By Dan Robitzski

A 25 year-old from Toronto went to Spring Break in Miami against better advice. He left, and a few days later, tested positive for coronavirus.
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By Foster Kamer

Four U.S. Senators unloaded millions of dollars in stocks after receiving a classified briefing about the coronavirus — saving them from vast losses.
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By Jon Christian

According to the latest CDC report, 38 percent of the 508 known to be hospitalized in the country were between the ages of 20 and 54.
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By Victor Tangermann

Larry Brilliant saw the coronavirus pandemic coming. He gave TED talks about it. He worked on "Contagion." And he helped eradicate smallpox. Time to listen?
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By Foster Kamer

It was bound to happen at some point: The first case of COVID-19 was detected inside an Amazon warehouse. Another was detected inside a major online retailer of groceries, FreshDirect.
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By Foster Kamer

South Korea immediately mobilized against the coronavirus outbreak while the U.S.'s official response was to downplay the risk.
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By Dan Robitzski

The New York Times ran a sobering opinion piece about the coronavirus by Cornelia Griggs, a pediatric surgery doctor at a large NYC hospital.
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By Jon Christian

NY Governor Invokes “Nuclear War” to Describe Coronavirus Lockdown
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By Jon Christian

The New York Times reports that China reported not a single new local coronavirus case in the country for the time since the outbreak began.
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By Jon Christian

The narrative itself is a work of fiction, but the biological mechanisms and medical risks that it describes are very real.
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By Dan Robitzski

On Tuesday, the World Health Organization officially started recommending against taking ibuprofen to treat symptoms of COVID-19.
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By Victor Tangermann

Experts: Vaping Could Make Coronavirus Infection More Severe
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By Victor Tangermann

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h
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By Dan Robitzski

In the shadow of the global coronavirus outbreak, public thinkers are starting to propose paying people to stay home and avoid spreading the deadly disease.
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By Jon Christian

Because of a surge in demand, Amazon warehouses will only be processing medical supplies and other essentials for the next few weeks.
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By Dan Robitzski

The White House just issued new guidlines for Americans as the coronavirus rips through the country: Avoid gatherings of people. So!
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By Foster Kamer

Golden Globe-winning actor Idris Elba announced on Twitter this afternoon that he has tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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By Jon Christian

NASA is taking many precautionary measures to ensure that the coronavirus outbreak doesn't have a chance to spread among its employees and astronauts.
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By Victor Tangermann

Videos from Italian cities currently under lockdown show neighbors entertaining each other by singing and playing music from their balconies.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma pledged last week to donate half a billion COVID-19 coronavirus testing kits and one million face masks to the US.
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By Victor Tangermann

On Friday, Trump declared a state of national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak currently spreading throughout the country.
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By Dan Robitzski

A nurse in California who caught the SARS-CoV-2019 coronavirus has published a scathing critique of the CDC's response to the outbreak.
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By Jon Christian

The CDC presented four models for the future of the coronavirus outbreak. The worst-case scenario looks grim, but there's still time to fix it.
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By Dan Robitzski

The South China Morning Post is now reporting that China may have identified "patient zero" — the first human, in other words, to catch the virus.
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By Jon Christian

NYC Just Declared a State of Emergency, Here’s What That Means
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By Foster Kamer

The drive-thru coronavirus test station is finally making its way to the US after South Korea perfected the method over the last couple of weeks.
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By Victor Tangermann

Tom Hanks has now announced that he and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
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By Foster Kamer