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How Does Being Immunocompromised Increase Risk of COVID-19?
An under-performing immune response leaves people susceptible to infection, but the severe symptoms in some people are actually caused by a huge immune response sweeping over the whole body.
In Shutting Out Threat, Seniors In Continuing Care Communities Feel Shut In
Across the country, seniors' lives are being upended as continuing care retirement communities take aggressive steps to protect residents from COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
How Do We Exit The Shutdown? Hire An Army Of Public Health Workers
More than two dozen health experts offer their thoughts on what public health resources will be needed to reopen the economy.
Want to Know How Many People Have COVID-19? Test Randomly
According to one researcher, the problem lies not in the number of tests but rather in who has been tested.
Biden's Incremental Medicare Play For Bernie's Backers
In one of his first proposals since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden is wading back into the roiling waters of health policy.
How to End Virus Lockdowns? Technology, Tests, Coordination
Governments battling a virus that has crossed borders with breathtaking swiftness pinned their hopes on tests, technology and a coordinated approach to ease tight social-distancing restrictions that slowed the pandemic but strangled the global economy.
What You Need to Know Today about the Virus Outbreak
New York's coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 Monday even as the absence of fresh hot spots in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world yielded a ray of optimism in global efforts against the disease, though a return to normal was unlikely anytime soon.
Attitudes About COVID-19 Shift As Cases Among Young Adults Rise
Young adults are now coming to terms with that new reality — driven in part by statistics that show they are not safe from the coronavirus.
Terrorists, Militants and Gangs Join the Fight Against Coronavirus
Curfews are part of a growing phenomenon across the globe, where criminal gangs, insurgents and terrorist groups are mounting efforts against the pandemic.
Decision Fatigue in the Era of Coronavirus
The problems around tiny decisions are not first-world but worldwide. The most fleeting of daily choices — no matter where you are — have taken on the most monumental of potential consequences.
Florida Police Chief Claims Deputy Died of COVID-19 Because He was Gay
A Florida police chief was placed on administrative leave after telling other officers that a LGBTQ colleague died of COVID-19 because he was a "homosexual who attended homosexual 'sexual' events."
Husband Remembers Late NYC Doctor on Frontline of Pandemic
Frank Gabrin became the first ER doctor in the U.S. known to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why Coronavirus Death Rates Can't be Summed Up in One Number
When people fall seriously ill from the new coronavirus, death rates become a highly personal matter. Yet we talk about them in the most impersonal of ways: with numbers.
Nurses Weigh Principles vs Safety in Virus Fight
Each day brings new questions for nurses, who are deciding how much they're willing to sacrifice.
Reclaiming Your Erection: Get Giddy
For most men, erectile dysfunction isn't a matter of "if" but "when." Fortunately, men's sexual health and wellness brand Giddy has created a product line that rises to the occasion.
National Youth HIV and Awareness Day: What You Need to Know
Today marks National Youth HIV and Awareness Day. It serves as an essential reminder to millennial and Gen Z youth to understand the importance of practicing safe sex and getting tested.
Keep Your Immune System in Top Shape with These Tips
Although a strong immune system is helpful, health experts stress the guidelines in place to battle the coronavirus's spread remain crucial.
U.S. States Get Creative in Hunt for Medical Supplies
With the federal stockpile drained of protective gear, states are turning to each other, private industries and anyone who can donate in a desperate bid to get respirators, gloves and other supplies to doctors, nurses and other front-line workers.
'Everybody is Scared': Struggle to Keep Apart on Subway
Even though ridership has plummeted in the city, making jam-packed trains and buses the exception rather than the rule, passengers aren't always guaranteed even 6 inches (15 centimeters).
'You Are Your Safest Sex Partner,' Advises Oregon Health Authority
The Oregon Health Authority tweeted out some guidance Wednesday for people wondering how to have sex in the time of COVID-19.