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For the first time in history, the price of crude oil has gone negative around 2:30pm EDT as a result of plummeting demand amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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By Victor Tangermann

Facebook published a new heatmap that shows the proportion of people feeling coronavirus symptoms within each U.S. county.
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By Dan Robitzski

A neural network trained by MIT researchers found that reopening the economy right now would result in an "exponential explosion" of COVID-19 cases.
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By Victor Tangermann

According to early test result data obtained by STAT, antiviral remdesivir is proving to be a promising drug to treat severe cases of COVID-19.
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By Victor Tangermann

China has taken the lead with mobile technology that relies on scanning QR codes and a mobile app that is attempting to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

Because the coronavirus pandemic has everyone stuck at home, mental healthcare providers are figuring out how to best offer their patients telehealth care.
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By Dan Robitzski

Clare Sammells, a cultural anthoropologist at Bucknell University, argues that "zombies are far less likely to cause a global pandemic than COVID-19."
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By Victor Tangermann

Epidemiologists say that the expected American death toll from the coronavirus would have been cut by 90 percent if the government acted two weeks sooner.
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By Dan Robitzski

Zoos in Germany might have to resort to some grim measures to keep doors open during the pandemic — slaughtering and even feeding animals to each other.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, a group of Harvard researchers argue that "prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022."
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By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government recently imposed new restrictions on coronavirua research, and now must approve all studies on the outbreak's origin.
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By Dan Robitzski

Health practitioners are finding that flipping COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs, or "prone positioning," is an effective way to keep them alive.
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By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just granted an emergency use authorization to a new test that scans saliva samples for the coronavirus, potentially making testing far safer.
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By Dan Robitzski

Rats across the country are turning to cannibalism and eating their young as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
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By Victor Tangermann

When he declared a national emergency on March 13, Trump made a lot of grand promises. One month later, most have been broken.
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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

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.
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By Victor Tangermann

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has a grim prediction for the future: world leaders will exploit the pandemic to claim new power and not relinquish it later.
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By Dan Robitzski

The CDC recently deleted a bizarre guideline from its website. There's no evidence hydroxychloroquine fights COVID-19, but the CDC had suggested it anyway.
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By Dan Robitzski

The US federal government is about to end funding for a number of coronavirus testing sites this Friday. A number of sites will have to close.
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By Victor Tangermann

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

Preliminary reseach suggests that areas with higher levels of air pollution are also experiencing a higher death rate among COVID-19 patients.
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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

There's no good evidence suggesting that hydroxychloroquine helps fight COVID-19. But Trump, who invested in the drug's manufacturer, keeps pushing it.
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By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, the FDA has accepted an application by pharmaceutical company Inovio to start clinical human testing for a new COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
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By Victor Tangermann

Coronavirus Conspiracy Theorists Are Setting 5G Towers on Fire
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus
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By Dan Robitzski

CNN reports that the coronavirus has shut down production of Corona beer in Mexico, where the government suspended non-essential businesses last week.
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By Jon Christian

Researchers have found that Ivermectin — an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug — was able to stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from growing in cell cultures.
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By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine announced today that they have developed a promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
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By Victor Tangermann

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

An ominous scoop by The Courier-Journal, a local paper in Kentucky: judges in the state are ordering coronavirus patients to isolate — a demand they're enforcing by making them wear ankle monitors, as if they were under house arrest.
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By Jon Christian

Korean pop star Kim Jae-joong did what everybody on the internet agreed not to do: make an off-flavor April Fools joke about the coronavirus.
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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

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

"Immunity passports" given out to workers by government authorities could help speed up the return to normal society, allowing them to get back to work.
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By Victor Tangermann

The crew of a nuclear missile-equipped submarine belonging to the Russian Navy is in quarantine over concerns they have been exposed to the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

Doctors considered treating more severe cases of COVID-19 by splitting one ventilator among four patients. But that would put all four in greater danger.
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By Dan Robitzski

Nasty Images Show How Bacteria Colonize Your Tongue
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By Victor Tangermann

Australian astrophysicist Daniel Reardon ended up at the hospital by getting four small magnets stuck up his nose, according to The Guardian.
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By Victor Tangermann

Despite a growing DIY army's intentions, the simple fact is that home-sown cloth masks are close to useless in protecting against the coronavirus.
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By Victor Tangermann

On Thursday, the US surpassed all other countries in the world to have the highest number of coronavirus cases. And it's not a good look.
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By Victor Tangermann

UK prime minister Boris Johnson downplayed the coronavirus pandemic for weeks. Now he says that he's tested positive for it.
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By Jon Christian

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

According to a new report by Broadband Now, many cities in the US are experiencing internet slowdowns during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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By Victor Tangermann

British technology maker Dyson has announced it has designed a new ventilator called the "CoVent" in just ten days to help treat coronavirus patients.
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By Victor Tangermann

Iceland just showed the world just how spreadable and wide-ranging the coronavirus is, as over half the people they tested are showing no symptoms at all.
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By Foster Kamer

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

There's so much misinformation on the coronavirus pandemic swirling around online that even the famous fact-checking organization Snopes is overwhelmed.
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By Dan Robitzski

In a recent interview, author and leading grief expert David Kessler argues that what we're collectively feeling is grief. And not just one kind of grief.
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By Victor Tangermann

Materials researcher Will Srubar argues that in order to build a sustainable future, scientists need to develop living, self-growing materials.
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By Dan Robitzski

After an Air Force base declared a public health emergency, the SpaceX mission scheduled to launch from there on March 30 is on "indefinite" hold.
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By Dan Robitzski

A man died after taking chloroquine, the anti-malaria drug touted by Donald Trump and Elon Musk for its potential in the fight against coronavirus.
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By Foster Kamer

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

Here's some advice from five different astronauts, retired and actve, on how not to go crazy while being isolated for longer periods at a time.
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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

Despite budget overruns — and a pandemic — NASA is determined to get its next Mars rover called "Perseverance" off the ground in July.
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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 growing number of doctors suspect that for many patients, the first symptom of the coronavirus could be the loss of the senses of taste and smell.
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By Jon Christian

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

A straightforward technique can split one ventilator off so four patients can simultaneously get treated, should the need arise. But it's never been tested.
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By Dan Robitzski