Health

Lockdown works — About 40 percent of cases were asymptomatic, and viral load didn't seem to matter. John Timmer - Jul 1, 2020 10:45 am UTC Enlarge / Even after the national lockdown ended, Italy is still locking down residential buildings if clusters of cases develop there. Italy was one of the countries hit earliest…

Sometimes having a visual is the best way to understand something. This is particularly true when it comes to science. And as wearing a face mask has become part of our daily routine, more and more people are questioning if it really matters. As summer sets in and heats up, how much will wearing another…

A new interactive map and dashboard lets you find out how bad your county's coronavirus outbreak is. Harvard Global Health Institute/Microsoft AI/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Harvard Global Health Institute/Microsoft AI/Screenshot by NPR A new interactive map and dashboard lets you find out how bad your county's coronavirus outbreak is. Harvard Global Health…

Some New Yorkers had antibodies for the new coronavirus more than a week before the first official case in the state was announced on March 1, new research shows. The findings, released Monday by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, signal that the virus may have been introduced in the New…

Did protests lead to more outbreaks? Here’s what we know so far.June 30, 2020ImageDr. Anthony Fauci warned today that the U.S. could have as many as 100,000 new cases a day — up from the current 40,000 — if the coronavirus is not contained.New cases in the U.S. have gone up 80 percent in the…