Crowded New York subway platform on May 30. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) The US may never know the true tally of its coronavirus infections – but scientists are getting closer to an accurate count. New research suggests that many millions […]
DeAgostini/Getty Images An international team of scientists, including a prominent researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has analyzed all known coronaviruses in Chinese bats and used genetic analysis to trace the likely origin of the novel coronavirus to […]
Just a few months ago we didn’t even know coronavirus existed, but thanks to some quick-thinking studies and data collected from millions of sufferers, scientists have been able to work out a lot about how the disease works and […]
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The coronavirus particle has a crown of spikes on its surface. Editor’s note: This article was revised on April 30 with the latest information on COVID-19. Since the new coronavirus was first discovered in January, many people have compared […]
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As Covid-19 cases fill the hospitals, among the sickest and most likely to die are those whose bodies react in a signature, catastrophic way. Immune cells flood and attack the lungs they should be protecting. Blood vessels leak; the blood itself clots. Blood pressure plummets and organs start to […]
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The Atlantic Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET on April 9, 2020. In the month since he declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency, President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied […]
A portable FEMA cot at a temporary medical facility in a gym at Southern New Hampshire University. In a remarkably prophetic report last summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency accurately predicted that a nationwide pandemic would result in a shortage of medical supplies, hospitals would be overwhelmed and the […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images The homebound and virus-wary across the Northern Hemisphere, from President Trump to cooped-up schoolchildren, have clung to the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic will fade in hot weather, as some viral diseases do. But the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, in a public report […]
After U.S. President Donald Trump advocated widespread use of two malaria drugs for COVID-19 patients, the FDA, led by Commissioner Stephen Hahn (left) produced an emergency use authorization for the medications. Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. The recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use […]
