Coronavirus

(CNN)A new study finds that deaths in New York City in the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic were comparable to deaths in the city at the peak of what's considered the deadliest pandemic to date --…

Two years ago, health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in extremely remote parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo faced a quandary — trial vaccines for the deadly disease had to be stored at sub-freezing temperatures as they traveled deep into tropical forests by helicopter or motorcycle. America’s highways and byways are far more…

This spring, death rates rivaled those seen during the country’s deadliest pandemic, a new study finds. “What 1918 looked like is basically this.”A temporary morgue outside New York City’s medical examiner’s office in April.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York TimesAug. 13, 2020Updated 1:13 p.m. ETThe 1918 influenza pandemic is the deadliest in modern history, claiming an estimated…

The approaching flu season threatens to overwhelm doctors and hospitals swamped by Covid-19 patients, sparking intense efforts to get people vaccinated against influenza. Both the new coronavirus and the seasonal flu virus are likely to spread in the fall and winter, and send many more sick patients to doctors’ offices and hospitals already struggling to…

In this file photo, a man is tested for coronavirus on Gifford Street in Syracuse. Dennis Nett | [email protected], N.Y. – Two more Onondaga County residents have died of coronavirus, raising the county’s death toll from the pandemic to 203.The county reported the residents were men, one in his 80s and the other in his…