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Health

With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19

By Sharon Begley

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Health

It’s difficult to grasp the projected deaths from Covid-19. Here’s how they compare to other causes of death

By Sharon Begley and Hyacinth Empinado

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First Opinion

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data

By John P.A. Ioannidis

Health

The Covid-19 Tracker

By STAT

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Health

Americans are underestimating how long coronavirus disruptions will last, health experts say

By Helen Branswell

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Politics

Trump faulted the WHO’s coronavirus response. But it’s guided by rules the U.S. helped write

By Helen Branswell

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Health

New research examines wastewater to detect community spread of Covid-19

By Shraddha Chakradhar

Med staff @ Maryland Hospital
Health

‘We’re being put at risk unnecessarily’: Doctors fume at government response to coronavirus pandemic

By Meghana Keshavan

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Health

New analysis breaks down age-group risk for coronavirus — and shows millennials are not invincible

By Sharon Begley

Gilead Covid
Business

Data for Gilead’s potential coronavirus therapy are coming soon. Here’s what you need to know

By Andrew Joseph, Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Matthew Herper

Pharma

Pfizer says coronavirus drug could enter testing by fall

By Matthew Herper

Trump/Fauci April 5
Politics

Fact-checking Trump’s claims about hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug he’s touting as a coronavirus treatment 

By Lev Facher

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Health

Social distancing is controlling Covid-19; now scientists need to figure out which measures are most effective

By Sharon Begley

Coronavirus demographics
Health

Who is getting sick, and how sick? A breakdown of coronavirus risk by demographic factors

By Sharon Begley

H1N1 ten years later
Health

The last pandemic was a ‘quiet killer.’ Ten years after swine flu, no one can predict the next one

By Helen Branswell

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Health

The coronavirus is washing over the U.S. These factors will determine how bad it gets in each community

By Andrew Joseph

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Health

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years

By Associated Press

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First Opinion

Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19

By Julie L. Gerberding

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