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April Goode awoke shortly before 7 a.m. after a night of restless sleep atop two sleeping bags and a blanket on the floor of her hotel room. Her four children were asleep on the two full beds. Ms. Goode turned on the television and kept the volume low. More news …

Older Americans are at a high risk for serious illness from the coronavirus, and most who are over age 65 are covered by Medicare. Medicare already covers its enrollees for much of what they might need if they contract the virus and become seriously ill — and it has expanded …

On Monday, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said that things are going to get much worse in the week ahead and too many people aren’t taking the spread of COVID-19 seriously enough. Shelter in place and lockdown orders started about a week ago, and today, roughly one in three …

When it comes to the coronavirus outbreak, what’s the word related to mental health that you hear most? If you said “anxiety,” you’re not alone. But if you were to sit (virtually, of course) in a therapist’s office like mine or any of my colleagues’, what you might hear just …

Overwhelmed by demand for an experimental treatment for coronavirus, the drug maker Gilead abruptly shut down its emergency access program, leaving doctors and families scrambling for answers. The company said it was setting up a broader access program that could try to help more people, but some said the transition …

Following the launch of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, IBM today announced that it will coordinate an effort to provide over 200 petaflops of computing power to scientists researching COVID-19, the coronavirus that’s sickened over 300,000 people. The company anticipates that the capacity will be used to develop …

新冠病毒疫情最新消息 Here’s what you need to know: Italy’s crisis stands as a warning for the world. Washington State warns it could run out of ventilators. Trump wrote to Kim Jong-un offering help, North Korea says. Hawaii orders a 14-day quarantine for all arrivals. Lockdowns alone won’t defeat the outbreak, a …

Photo by Hananeko_Studio / Shutterstock.com Officially named COVID-19, a novel coronavirus disease has been sweeping across the globe and shutting down everything from professional sports seasons to entire countries. As of Friday, there were more than 140,000 confirmed cases worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource …

Yesterday, I received a text from a colleague whose sister is in charge of nursing at one of my city’s major hospitals. Two of her nurses had just quit, in tears. “They were fed up,” she said. “They couldn’t take it any longer.” As anyone, like me, who has worked …