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Until recently, XpresSpa was known for offering manicures, pedicures, massages and waxing services at 25 airports in the United States and around the world, where travelers with some time between flights could get themselves spruced up. But on Wednesday, the company began offering a rapid molecular coronavirus test, manufactured by …

GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Sideloading platform SideQuest is taking $ 650K in early investment from BoostVC, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, and The Fund. The relatively small preseed funding will help SideQuest’s Shane Harris and Orla Harris build a testing service and …

Here’s what you need to know: The C.D.C. reverses its guidance on testing for people who were exposed to the virus and aren’t showing symptoms. Emails by a former top Trump health official and his science adviser show efforts to silence the C.D.C. Trump acknowledged that distribution of an authorized …

A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as …

Many coronavirus testing sites do not screen children. One that does, outside Chief Sealth High School in Seattle, swabbed 1-year-old Quentin Brown late last month. Credit…Elaine Thompson/Associated Press When Audrey Blute’s almost 2-year-old son, George, had a runny nose in July, she wanted to do what she felt was responsible: get …

Here’s what you need to know: ‘We are incredibly concerned’: A group of local health departments urges the C.D.C. to pull its new guidance on testing. For many schools in the U.S., returning to the classroom means a stop in the courtroom. Trump promises a vaccine by the end of …

Here’s what you need to know: The White House announces a major virus test-kit deal, just days after the C.D.C. moved to discourage testing. Trump promises a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, and boasts of his pandemic response. Hurricane Laura and the virus collide in Louisiana and …

Here’s what you need to know: The C.D.C. was pressured to change guidance on testing asymptomatic people who had been exposed to the virus. N.Y.C.’s subway and bus service would be reduced by 40 percent without federal aid, the M.T.A. warns. At U.S.C., classes are online, but university officials report …

Here’s what you need to know: The C.D.C. changes testing guidelines to exclude those exposed to virus who don’t exhibit symptoms. The Trump administration ordered hospitals to report data to H.H.S. or risk losing funding. At the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump acknowledges the pandemic’s human toll. ‘No second chances’: …