On April 19, a protestor in Helena, Montana holds up a sign to protest stay-at-home measures. Similar protests have taken hold across the country over the past couple of weeks. By June, there could be nearly twice as many coronavirus…
Researchers conduct COVID-19 testing in Garfield Park, San Francisco as part of a mass testing effort in part of the city’s Mission District neighborhood. A COVID-19 mass testing effort within San Francisco’s Mission District — which aimed to broadly test…
Last updated May 5 at 11:25 a.m. E.D.T. Today (May 5), New Hampshire reported 2,588 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the tracker updated by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. This makes New…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus invades human cells by attaching to ACE2 receptors on the surfaces of those cells. The novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 seems to hit some people harder than others, with some people experiencing only mild symptoms and others being…
Last updated April 30 at 6:48 p.m. ET. —New York is reporting at least 318,953 total positive cases of COVID-19 and 19,415 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, with 58,950 patients having recovered and 9,647 currently hospitalized. That makes it still the state…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued more stringent rules for COVID-19 antibody tests sold in the U.S., after a slew of antibody tests hit the market without adequate proof that they really work, according to news reports.…
Minneapolis, Minnesota Last updated May 4 at 5:15 p.m. EDT Minnesota has reported 428 deaths due to the new coronavirus and 7,234 confirmed cases of the disease, according to the state’s Department of Health. As of today (May 4), 1,271 patients…
Dr Yves Cohen said 24 patients were admitted to a French hospital in December with pneumonia, with one testing positive for Covid-19 after tests were revisited A doctor claims France has had coronavirus patients since December (Image: AFP via Getty…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a new study to determine the rate of COVID-19 infection among U.S. children. The study, known as the Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS-CoV-2, or HEROS, will recruit 6,000 people from 2,000…
A sign for historic Route 66 near Tulsa. Last updated May 1 at 6:10 p.m. ET. Oklahoma is reporting 3,748 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 230 deaths, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Community spread has been confirmed…
The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search for drugs to fight it. That was the idea my colleagues and I hoped to be true when we began building…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at mysterious arachnids with more legs and eyes than you can count on one hand: spiders. How long have spiders been around? How many different spider species are…