Health

Hospitals will begin sending coronavirus patient information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The researchers said they were surprised to see so many COVID-19 patients with damage to their heart, and so many patients with severe dysfunction.

The initial exposure occurred in May in Springfield, Missouri.

Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic.

A study published on July 11 by researchers at King’s College London found that antibodies detected in the human body which fight the coronavirus declined after just a few weeks, leaving the possibility of herd immunity out of the question.

The additional $600 a week in jobless benefits that became available to those collecting unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic is slated to expire at the end of the month.

Activists warn that without stronger attempts to hold political and health leaders accountable, vaccines will be hoarded by rich countries in an unseemly race to inoculate their citizens.

Schools and educators across the U.S. have landed in the middle of an increasingly politicized debate over how best to reopen schools this fall.

With COVID-19 cases surging in many states across the U.S., Texas and Arizona have requested refrigerated trucks in several counties that have nearly reached their morgue capacity.

The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.

Whether to make masks mandatory isn't just a matter of debate in the United States, where infection rates are still climbing fast.

The troubling milestone comes at a time when case counts are surging in the U.S. and some other nations.