 President Trump said Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine. Although Trump has been touting the drug for months, it has not been proven to treat or prevent the virus.
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 Several countries are considering plans to allow people to expand their social circles to a limited number of people to help offset the mental health toll of isolation. Would this plan work in the U.S. or would it lead to more outbreaks?
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 A Florida official said she was fired for not censoring the state's data, while questions have also been raised about accuracy in Georgia and Texas.
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 Among the most promising, yet also controversial, tools for minimizing new coronavirus infections are smartphone applications that perform contact tracing.
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 President Trump said Monday that he has been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine despite a lack of scientific evidence to show that it helps prevent a person from being infected with the coronavirus.
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 Dr. Anthony Fauci has been one of the most trusted voices in the government's response to the pandemic, but he's recently come under fire from conservatives. Is his role on the coronavirus task force at risk?
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 The latest news and information on the pandemic from Yahoo News reporters in the United States and around the world.
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 The latest news and information on the pandemic from Yahoo News reporters in the United States and around the world.
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 Dr. Dara Kass, a Yahoo News medical contributor, and Dr. Michael Saag, an epidemiologist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, address some of the false medical claims made in the viral video "Plandemic," which was removed by social media platforms after garnering millions of views.
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 Millions of American workers have abandoned the office to work from home. The arrangement has benefits for both employees and employers. Will the change be permanent?
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 As the nation begins to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, some people are looking to the skies — and experts don’t necessarily like what they see, arguing there are not enough safeguards in place to protect passengers and crew.
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 President Trump on Friday announced that the U.S. is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization while separately sanctioning China for a lack of transparency about the coronavirus outbreak — and for its control over Hong Kong.
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 The detainees’ names were not included in the complaint due to concerns about potential retaliation.
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 In many ways, Japan’s experience of the coronavirus pandemic has paralleled America’s, and yet Japan’s outbreak has stalled — at much lower levels of infection and death.
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 Francis Collins of the NIH says the shifting guidance on face masks reflects earlier efforts to preserve enough masks for first responders and a growing understanding of how the virus spreads.
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 Speaking during a press briefing on Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany strongly endorsed the “prophylactic” use of hydroxychloroquine: that is, to prevent contracting the coronavirus.
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 Pentagon leaders expressed strong confidence Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine will be available by January, and possibly as early as this fall — claims that were met with skepticism by scientific experts.
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 Even as President Trump and many of his allies are rushing to reopen the nation from a months-long pandemic lockdown, that pandemic continues to devastate communities of color, a raft of witnesses warned legislators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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 Former Vice President Joe Biden marked the grim milestone of 100,000 U.S. deaths with a video message he directed at the family members of those who had perished. that also offered a sharp rebuke of President Trump, the man he hopes to succeed in the White House.
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 The United States on Wednesday passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths, a grim figure that the White House initially warned might be the final toll.
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 President Trump’s approval rating has plummeted since late February, according to the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which the president frequently cited during his first three years in office.
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 Public health experts have called for the U.S. to hire 100,000 or more contract tracers to track the spread of coronavirus. Will this strategy help contain the outbreak?
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 On a day when the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000, President Trump sought to direct the nation’s attention back to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic as a way to smear the reputation of his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.
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 Before leaving the Trump administration, Zachary Fuentes was a deputy to John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Trump’s second chief of staff.
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 Private planes, second homes, yachts and million-dollar bunkers are among the ways the wealthy have dealt with the pandemic.
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 Congress boosted unemployment benefits substantially in response to the pandemic, but the extra funds are set to run at the end of July. Should the program be extended or is it preventing people from getting back to work?
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 “Isolating cases, tracking contacts, all of those things we’re talking about now, we really should have been talking about in January,” Beth Cameron said on Yahoo’s “Skullduggery” podcast.
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 Universities across the country are wrestling with the decision of whether or not to hold in-person classes in the fall. Is bringing students back worth the risk of an on-campus outbreak?
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 President Trump said Friday that he wanted state governors to allow the nation’s houses of worship to reopen “right now” despite the ongoing health risks from the coronavirus pandemic posed by large gatherings of people.
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 More than a dozen sailors from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19 after they were believed to have recovered, which medical experts say shows how much remains unknown about the virus that causes the disease.
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 As states relax lockdown restrictions and responsibility for containing the coronavirus shifts, in part, to the American people, the dangerous tendency to ignore fundamental facts about the deadly pathogen in favor of misinformation peddled by partisans and spread on social media grows.
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 The story of convalescent plasma is one of a federal medical establishment wanting badly to compensate for its slow response to the coronavirus.
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 President Trump made clear Thursday that he sees the primary role of Fox News as that of helping Republicans and himself stay in power.
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 With the coronavirus expected to remain a threat through at least next spring and a reliance on “distance learning” likely to continue, the burden will fall most heavily on the neediest students, living in homes lacking computers, internet connectivity or adults at home during the school day.
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 Depending on who you talk to, the current coronavirus pandemic might be the natural product of evolution, the result of a lab accident or a biological weapon designed by the Chinese.
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 Companies around the world are rushing to create a coronavirus vaccine in record time. But making enough doses and getting them to those who need it may prove to be the real challenge.
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 Amid growing concerns over a lack of screening for the coronavirus at U.S. airports, WH press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday the Trump administration was taking the issue seriously.
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 On April 24, Georgia became the first U.S. state to initiate the fraught process known as “reopening.” That hasn’t produced a surge of new cases … yet. The answer to whether other states should follow Georgia’s lead and reopen more fully is that it depends.
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 President Trump on Wednesday threatened to halt federal funding to Michigan and Nevada over the distribution of absentee ballots in those swing states amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has left more than 90,000 Americans dead.
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 During a Yahoo News virtual town hall, the former vice president tore into President Trump’s refusal to wear a protective mask despite the recommendations of health experts and WH protocols for West Wing staffers.
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 The presumptive Democratic president nominee said during a Yahoo News Town Hall that workers were being sacrificed in order to increase profits.
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 Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that America has “a leadership problem,” about food and nutrition in the face of the pandemic that has crippled the food distribution network.
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 “There’s been more voting rights litigation this election cycle already than there was in all of 2016, by a lot,” said Marc Elias, a D.C.-based lawyer with a long history in the political trenches.
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 A document created by the CDC and reviewed by Yahoo News lists nine counties and one city with rising infection levels, many in states that have eased lockdown restrictions.
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 Tune in tonight at 6 p.m. EST for an hour-long panel discussion on the Media’s Role in Engendering Trust and Giving Voice to Underrepresented Communities. The event is organized by the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association and hosted by media partner Yahoo News.
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 On Memorial Day, as America began to lift more restrictions, COVID-19’s foot remained disproportionately on the chest of blacks and law enforcement had its knee on George Floyd’s neck.
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 Infectious disease specialists and vaccine developers interviewed by Yahoo News said that even accepting some encouraging research at face value, it is unclear if or when an effective vaccine will be available.
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 A top immigration official for the Trump administration admitted on Tuesday that immigrants are not systematically tested for the coronavirus when they are apprehended.
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 Trump's virtual campaign rallies feature a 3D animated venue designed to make a big splash, in contrast to Biden's rec room. But Biden is still ahead in the polls.
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 The CDC says that it may be possible to contract COVID-19 by coming in contact with a surface or object that has the virus on it, but you're much more likely to get the coronavirus through person-to-person transmission.
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When we don't break white silence with ongoing and explicit teaching about race and racism, and active and persistent modeling of antiracism, we end up raising the Amy Coopers of the next generation. 
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Read CNN's Fast Facts about the coronavirus outbreak, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. 
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Police departments are trying to quell unrest spurred by the death of George Floyd by firing rubber bullets into crowds, even though five decades of evidence shows such weapons can disable, disfigure and even kill. 
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Many single people worldwide are experiencing unexpected benefits of social distancing. Following US CDC and other countries' guidelines of staying 6 feet from others has forced suitors to focus on getting to know each other while dating. 
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Growing evidence shows running shoes might do more harm than good. Our latest review suggests wearing shoes changes the way we run and weakens the foot in a way that can contribute to common sports injuries. Here's why barefoot running has benefits. 
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Coronavirus cases continued to spread in parts of the American south and west in the past week as experts warn that packed protests could exacerbate the pandemic. 
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The United States should have 100 million doses of one candidate coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Tuesday. 
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Even if we escaped getting sick from the coronavirus, we are all sick of staying at home, practicing social distancing and wearing masks. While case numbers and deaths from Covid-19 are trending downward, this is not the time to let down your guard. These are not ordinary days. These novel days call on us to make decisions with limited and evolving information. The coronavirus is still circulating. 
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Global Running Day has joined the list of virtual-only events in 2020. 
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It's easy for white folks to recoil from Amy Cooper once we've had a front row seat to her rage-filled voice turning trembly and fragile when the 911 operator picks up.
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Nothing is certain in the world of dating. But for Poornima Ravishankar, a lawyer from northern New Jersey, the coronavirus pandemic has brought an unexpected twist.
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In cities across the country, police departments have attempted to quell unrest spurred by the death of George Floyd by firing rubber bullets into crowds, even though five decades of evidence shows such weapons can disable, disfigure and even kill.
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Sam was one of hundreds of peaceful protesters gathered outside the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta on Monday night. 
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As cities and social media explode with anger over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, worried parents struggle with how to protect their children from seeing the worst of the violence while simultaneously explaining the ravages of racism. 
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People from the UK's ethnic minority communities are up to 50% more likely to die with coronavirus than their white British peers, a government review has found. 
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Some Latin America nations are partially reopening this week, despite still recording thousands of coronavirus deaths and infections. 
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New Zealand's government could ease coronavirus restrictions as early as next week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Tuesday. 
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A five-day course of the antiviral drug remdesivir sped recovery in moderately ill patients with pneumonia from Covid-19, drugmaker Gilead Sciences announced in a statement Monday. 
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Doctors are fighting not only to save lives from Covid-19, but also to protect patients' brains. 
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Eli Lilly and Company said Monday it has started the first human trial of an antibody therapy designed to treat Covid-19. 
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Nearly 26,000 nursing home residents have died from coronavirus, according to federal data released Monday. 
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Government leaders and health officials have expressed their concern that coronavirus could rapidly spread during protests over the death of George Floyd. 
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On the heels of studies showing hydroxychloroquine doesn't help patients in the hospital with Covid-19, a new study -- the first of its kind -- shows the drug doesn't work to prevent infection with the virus, either. 
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There's no evidence that a daily aspirin should be taken by most adults in good cardiovascular health, according to a new review. The risk of a major bleeding event due to the drug's blood thinning effects outweighs the benefit, the research said. 
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The CDC warns that some people may be putting off getting emergency care for serious health conditions during the coronavirus pandemic -- and fewer visits for critical conditions could result in complications or even death. 
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The nonlethal substance is banned by the Geneva Conventions, but is legal to use against civilians. It causes irritation to the skin, eyes, throat and lungs. If you're peacefully protesting, using milk or a baking soda mixture can immediately help.
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The United States should have 100 million doses of one candidate coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Tuesday.
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Identifying superspreading events could be crucial in the fight against the virus, scientists say.
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Positive stories from people considered at high risk who have made a full recovery from coronavirus.
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The BBC has been given unprecedented access to a hospital in the heart of London, for one week.
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A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found links to assaults, arson and deaths - and the potential for even greater indirect harm.
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Swedish healthcare is under scrutiny over the high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes.
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Some tourist towns had barely survived fires when the virus hit, and locals say they are struggling.
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Why the people on the only continent without a recorded case of coronavirus are in lockdown.
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Restrictions ease in some countries but the World Health Organization warns infections could rise.
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Will Covid-19 make handshakes a relic of the past? If so, what might that mean about the future of human touch and interaction?
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There's still plenty of dangerous and untested medical advice circulating online.
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Why do fewer people seem to be having heart attacks and strokes? One theory is that the lockdown lifestyle is healthy.
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Recovery from Covid-19 can be a lengthy process, depending on how seriously people get the virus.
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Children seem to be at low risk from the disease, but can they still spread it?
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President Trump has been critical - but what do others think of the "global guardian of public health"?
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He spent four of his weeks in critical care strapped to a ventilator but now he is walking again.
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Five doctors administering end-of-life care reflect on the current crisis.
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The communities secretary says the rate of infection is low enough to allow those who have been shielding to do "modest things".
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A couple whose IVF treatment was delayed say struggling to start a family has been "heart-wrenching".
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The foreign secretary admitted that the government's five-level, colour-coded alert system was not yet at level three.
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Why is lifting restrictions being described as a "dangerous moment"?
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Some restrictions on vulnerable people shielding from coronavirus are to be eased after 10 weeks.
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Schools that had just re-opened days ago have now been forced shut again after a spike in cases.
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The public must be "sensible" after scientists warn of risks of lifting lockdown, medical chief says.
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The US has seen more deaths (currently 100,047) and infections (1.69 million) than any other country.
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Thousands of contact tracers are tracking down close contacts of people with coronavirus.
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Testing of hydroxychloroquine as a possible coronavirus treatment is suspended by the health agency.
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Remdesivir shortens recovery time by about four days, research suggests.
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Better understanding of Covid-19's impact on the immune system gives hope an existing drug might aid recovery.
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