Handling mail amid coronavirus: Low risk but wash your hands
Is it safe to pick up your mail? How about those packages from your online orders? And how safe are the people we count on to make those deliveries? Health…
Timeline of key events in the spread of the new coronavirus
JAN. 3: The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia in central China rises to 44 in an outbreak that awakens fearful memories of the 2002-2003 SARS…
Outside hard-hit nursing home, staffers find nervous public
Officials say staffers at a nursing home dubbed “ground zero” for West Virginia’s growing coronavirus caseload have been treated as pariahs for their close proximity to the infection cluster By…
‘Choppy waters’ await Navy as virus strikes aircraft carrier
WASHINGTON — The Navy, the military service hit hardest by the coronavirus, scrambled Friday to contain its first at-sea outbreak, with at least two dozen infected aboard the USS Theodore…
For nursing homes, symptoms aren’t enough to tell who’s sick
An investigation at a Seattle-area nursing home concludes that symptoms aren’t enough to identify who is infected once the coronavirus enters a long-term care facility By CARLA K. JOHNSON and…
From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing…
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
America’s coronavirus infections have surged to the most in the world, and has Italy shut down its industry March 27, 2020, 2:02 PM 5 min read America’s coronavirus infections have…
As virus toll mounts in NY, more friction with Trump
President Donald Trump and elected leaders in New York are clashing again over the depth of the state’s coronavirus crisis March 27, 2020, 1:35 PM 4 min read NEW YORK…
Vietnam orders non-essential businesses to close for 2 weeks
Vietnam’s government is ordering all non-essential businesses to close for at least two weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus March 27, 2020, 12:30 PM 2…
Italy hopes virus is easing but fears new onslaught in south
ROME — Doctors and nurses in Italy‘s overwhelmed northern hospitals have welcomed a slight stabilizing in the number of coronavirus infections but fear the virus is still silently spreading in…
Federal prisons struggle to combat growing COVID-19 fears
WASHINGTON — When a federal correction officer geared up for duty recently at a Florida prison complex, he added an N95 mask amid coronavirus fears. He has a sister who…
Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy
MADRID — Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has,…