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New drug from Merck, Bayer reduces hospitalizations for heart failure patients

By Matthew Herper

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Health

In a time of distancing due to coronavirus, the health threat of loneliness looms

By Joanne Silberner

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Health

What if hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work? What if it does? Right now, we don’t know

By Matthew Herper

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Covid-19 hasn’t yet hit India in a widespread way. But I saw more warnings there than I did in the U.S.

By Shraddha Chakradhar

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On the Front Lines

With masks dwindling, a hospital’s Covid-19 crisis team searches for a way out

By Eric Boodman

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The next frontier in coronavirus testing: Identifying the full scope of the pandemic, not just individual infections

By Andrew Joseph

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New reports raise possibility pregnant women can pass coronavirus to fetus, but risk is unclear

By Helen Branswell

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‘Drug development is a long, long process’: pharma CEO in Italy sounds a note of caution on Covid-19

By Elizabeth Cooney

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The Covid-19 Tracker

By STAT

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Health

Covid-19’s resurgence in Hong Kong holds a lesson: Defeating it demands persistence

By Suzanne Sataline

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Health

What we’ve learned about the coronavirus — and what we still need to know

By Helen Branswell

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Special Report

When can we let up? Health experts craft strategies to safely relax coronavirus lockdowns

By Sharon Begley

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Health

Vir Biotechnology reports early progress in antibody treatment for Covid-19

By Matthew Herper

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On the Front Lines

A sports medicine office morphs into a coronavirus clinic, braced for the onslaught

By Eric Boodman

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Health

Social distancing, politicized: Trump allies are urging an end to isolation, worrying public health experts

By Lev Facher

GUINEA EBOLA
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‘We didn’t follow through’: He wrote the Ebola ‘lessons learned’ report for Obama. Now he weighs in on coronavirus response

By Andrew Joseph

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Health

When might experimental drugs to treat Covid-19 be ready? A forecast

By Matthew Herper

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Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China

By Sharon Begley

Montana COVID
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‘A long ways from everything’: In Montana, distance is shaping the coronavirus response

By Kathleen McLaughlin

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Health

Doctors warn an inability to smell could be a symptom of Covid-19 — but caution the evidence is preliminary

By Erin Brodwin

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As coronavirus spreads, thousands of foreign doctors could be blocked from U.S. entry, group warns

By Helen Branswell

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Health

As Covid-19 spreads, disruptions to clinical trial and drug development accelerate

By Adam Feuerstein

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Health Tech

I asked eight chatbots whether I had Covid-19. The answers ranged from ‘low’ risk to ‘start home isolation’

By Casey Ross

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Health

For people with underlying health conditions, the coronavirus presents ‘all the ingredients’ for danger

By Andrew Joseph

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Health

Why President Trump is at odds with his medical experts over using malaria drugs against Covid-19

By Matthew Herper

Bottles of Remdesivir
Health

Gilead pauses access to experimental Covid-19 drug due to ‘overwhelming demand’

By Matthew Herper

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Health Tech

As public hungers for coronavirus tests, FDA warns new at-home kits are ‘unauthorized’

By Erin Brodwin

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Health

New coronavirus test returns results in 45 minutes, but it may be limited to hospitals

By Matthew Herper and Lev Facher

A convoy of Italian Army trucks is unloaded upon arrival from Bergamo carrying bodies of coronavirus victims to the cemetery of Ferrara, Italy, where they will be cremated, Saturday, March 21, 2020.
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A plea from doctors in Italy: To avoid Covid-19 disaster, treat more patients at home

By Sharon Begley

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