Covid Report

The city typically waits 30 days before interring bodies in mass graves on Hart Island, but the coronavirus' death toll is overwhelming the system.

"You will always have conspiracy theories when you have a very challenging public health crisis," Dr. Fauci said. "They are nothing but distractions."

Lift lockdown, get a new wave of cases, shut down again: "What happened in Wuhan could happen repeatedly to a city," one epidemiologist said.

Anthony Fauci said COVID-19's impact on black Americans was shining "a very bright light on some of the real weaknesses and foibles in our society."

Business Insider spoke with a Detroit ER nurse working for the Henry Ford Health System, where 700-plus workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

Sweden urged people to practice social distancing but left shops and restaurants open, breaking with many countries across Europe and the world.

"We don't need to shake hands," Dr. Anthony Fauci said, adding that it was a big transmitter of respiratory illness. "We've got to break that custom."

Wastewater testing could also be used as an early-warning sign if the virus returns.

The pandemic is fuelling deplorable racism and discrimination, especially against Asian people. Education and research will also pay the price.

Nature’s pick of science images this month focuses on the COVID-19 outbreak.

Updates on the respiratory illness that has infected more than one million people and killed tens of thousands.

The world’s most contagious virus has killed thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and 23 countries have suspended measles vaccination campaigns as they cope with SARS-CoV-2.

The new coronavirus raced through China much faster than previously thought, a U.S. research team said, suggesting that extremely widespread vaccination or immunity will be necessary to end the pandemic.

The federal government has failed to distribute enough personal protective equipment and medical supplies to states reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a document released Wednesday by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.