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Breaking: Trump Addresses U.S. on Coronavirus Europe Restrictions and Stimulus
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By Foster Kamer

Readers, we implore you: Make your own hand sanitizer as a last alternative, after you've run out of all the soap and water
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By Foster Kamer

A new report by researchers at Imperial College London in the UK suggest that about two thirds of new COVID-19 coronavirus infections have gone undetected.
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By Foster Kamer

The World Health Organization formally declared that the coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic, citing a concerningly weak response from some countries.
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By Dan Robitzski

A secret report by the Director of National Intelligence says that the United States is starkly unprepared for a global pandemic, officials say.
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By Jon Christian

Scientists: This Is How Long It Takes to Show Coronavirus Symptoms
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By Jon Christian

There are a number of disturbing parallels between the coronavirus COVID-19 and the Spanish flu — and leaders seem to have ignored lessons from the past.
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By Dan Robitzski

the Chinese government is using a professional Mr. Bean impersonator to spread propaganda about its response to the deadly, COVID-19-causing coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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By Jon Christian

Italy Imposes Nationwide Travel Restrictions as Death Toll Soars
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By Victor Tangermann

A number of cruise ship passengers are catching cabin fever as they're trapped on board the Grand Princess due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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By Victor Tangermann

A New York City woman documented her experience trying to get tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus after showing all the symptoms. Here's what happened.
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By Foster Kamer

The French ministry of health had to declare on Sunday that "no, cocaine does NOT protect against COVID-19," in a post on Twitter.
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By Victor Tangermann

Q&A: James Hamblin, MD on Why You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
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By Foster Kamer

No, alcohol does not kill coronavirus, at least, not like that. Both news and memes about the global COVID-19 outbreak are spreading rapidly online.
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By Jacob Banas

We've tracked the total death toll over time of 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that originated in China last month. The graph will be updated as we learn more.
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By Dan Robitzski

Banks across the globe are sending thousands of their staff home to help keep their business going while the coronavirus outbreak is taking its toll.
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By Victor Tangermann

Amazingly, the coronavirus outbreak also appears to be having an observable effect on the Earth's environment — and you can see it from space.
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By Jon Christian

Bored teens are posting memes, dances, and jokes on TikTok about their experiences of being quarantined during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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By Victor Tangermann

While the WHO's prediction for a two percent coronavirus mortality rate mostly held up, the numbers recently climbed to about 3.4 percent.
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By Dan Robitzski

The CDC is advising people to get ready to have a break from regular life in response to the coronavirus outbreak and to stay away if you're ill.
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By Victor Tangermann

A New York City woman documented her experience trying to get tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus after showing all the symptoms. Here's what happened.
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By Foster Kamer

Many health practitioners have argued the government's efforts to test patients for COVID-19 in the US have fallen far short of expectations.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to a genetic analysis, the coronavirus might have been circulating in Washington state over the past six weeks spreading person-to-person.
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By Victor Tangermann

Back in 2014, Trump Obama should "visit & embrace" every person in the US with Ebola. Will he follow his own advice with the coronavirus?
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By Jon Christian

Uber sent out a memo to drivers urging them, among other things, to stay home if they feel sick. But because drivers aren't employees, it's not realistic.
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By Dan Robitzski

More reports are emerging of people who already recovered from the coronavirus catching it twice, but it's possible that there were errors in their tests.
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By Dan Robitzski

"Don't be a [explicative] idiot" was the big takeaway John Oliver tried to stress about coronavirus on Sunday's episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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By Foster Kamer

Officials at the World Health Organization confirmed that mouth and nose swabs from a dog in Hong Kong have tested "weakly positive" for the coronavirus.
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By Jon Christian

A whistleblower has come forward, claiming that the Trump administration helped spread the deadly COVID-19 outbreak inside US borders.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a disturbing move, government officials will need clearance from the White House in order to give any statement about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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By Dan Robitzski

A special adviser to the director-general of the WHO roasted U.S. President Donald Trump's response to the global coronavirus outbreak.
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By Jon Christian

Republican and Democrat lawmakers seem to be in agreement that the Trump administration hasn't put nearly enough effort into a coronavirus response plan.
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By Dan Robitzski

Overwhelmed and overworked nurses in Wuhan, China, the city where the coronavirus outbreak began, published a cry for help from the rest of the world.
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By Dan Robitzski

The Lancet just retracted a passionate call for help from two Chinese nurses claiming to fight the coronavirus in Wuhan after learning they originally lied.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to a high-ranking organizer, it's possible the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be canceled due to the international coronavirus outbreak.
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By Jon Christian

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to confuse the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 with Ebola, a completely separate deadly disease.
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By Jon Christian

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak that's spread around the world over comes with a lot of confusing terminology and vocab, so we wrote a glossary.
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By Dan Robitzski

Iran health ministry confirmed today in an interview that the country's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi has tested positive for COVID-19.
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By Victor Tangermann

The French Health Ministry announced that France no longer has confirmed cases of the coronavirus COVID-19: one patient died but all the others recovered.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new report by researchers at Imperial College London in the UK suggest that about two thirds of new COVID-19 coronavirus infections have gone undetected.
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By Victor Tangermann

As countries struggle to contain the coronavirus, global economies and the stock market are starting to take notable hits.
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By Dan Robitzski

The NYT reports that COVID-19 is tearing through China's prison system — a hint that even in the epidemic's epicenter, we don't understand its toll.
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By Jon Christian

Deadly Coronavirus May Be Spreading Through Poop
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By Victor Tangermann

The editors of the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) retracted a study that claims vaping increased the chance of heart attacks.
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By Victor Tangermann

American doctors are worried that the COVID-19 epidemic could lead to a crisis as patients overwhelm emergency rules and exhaust stores of medical supplies.
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By Jon Christian

The 2019-nCoV pandemic that began as a viral outbreak in Wuhan, China has rapidly spread to new countries. Here's how it progressed over time.
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By Dan Robitzski

Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, died from a COVID-19 infection while trying to treat the massive number of patients in the city.
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By Dan Robitzski

Orthopedic surgeons have begun offering leg lengthening — long offered as a corrective procedure for congenital defects — to insecure, short men.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities arrested Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and activist who called on President Xi Jinping to resign for mishandling the COVID-19 outbreak.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have released a gallery of stunning images of what the Coronavirus looks like taken with scanning and transmission electron microscopes.
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By Jon Christian

A research team's new technique has improved the development of transparent organs creating stunning images of 3D cellular maps.
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By Jacob Banas

On Friday, Chinese authorities only reported 14 new fatalities linked to COVID-19. But the sudden drop isn't necessarily the good news it appears to be.
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By Dan Robitzski

Officials at The Health Commission of Hubei Province in China have announced a nearly tenfold increase in COVID-19 cases on Thursday morning.
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By Victor Tangermann

South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported today that the deadly coronavirus COVID-19 is spreading in North Korea.
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By Jon Christian

In a new lawsuit, the state of Massachusetts claims that fashionable vape brand Juul marketed to kids with ad buys on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.
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By Jon Christian

An executive order mobilized the entire U.S. military to prepare for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, should the outbreak ever progress to that point.
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By Dan Robitzski

Coronavirus COVID-19 test kits sent out in America are proving to be faulty, and in China where they're needed most, there simply aren't enough.
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By Foster Kamer

The number of people infected by the coronavirus — and dying from it — is quickly increasing, but has the outbreak reached the level of a pandemic?
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By Kristin Houser

The coronavirus outbreak can cause extreme symptoms like coughing up blood or lung infections, but milder cases are more similar to the flu.
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By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found traces of two microbial toxins in Juul's nicotine vaping liquids.
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By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious Chinese pneumonia-like coronavirus that originated from Wuhan, China, has officially reached the US, with one confirmed case in Washington.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials confirmed that the pneumonia-like virus that first emerged at a Wuhan seafood market can be transmitted from person-to-person.
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By Dan Robitzski

China released an app over the weekend that lets residents know if they've come in "close contact" with the deadly coronavirus Covid-19.
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By Kristin Houser

Gabriel Leung, public health expert, told The Guardian that 60% of the world's population could get infected by the coronavirus, if left unchecked.
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By Victor Tangermann