Three cheers for them

In just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has crossed borders and oceans, killing thousands, sickening millions, and forcing millions more to reckon with the economic and personal chaos of closures and lockdowns. Yet as the global infection count rises, the crisis has also given rise to acts of ingenuity. The pandemic has set off…

A COVID-19 mass testing effort within San Francisco's Mission District  — which aimed to broadly test individuals regardless of symptoms  — found stark inequalities in how the virus is affecting different groups. About 95% of the people who tested positive were Latino, and the vast majority could not work from home. Not a single white person tested positive, despite making up about a third of the people who were tested. 

The novel coronavirus -- which has infected over 3.9 million people worldwide -- has been detected in wastewater, but researchers have been unclear about the transmission risks.

The first charity the band is highlighting is Feeding America, which partners with food banks across the U.S.

Robert De Niro, Joaquin Phoenix, Juliette Binoche, and Cate Blanchett have signed an op-ed in French newspaper Le Monde.

Prada Group is funding ‘Proteggimi’, a research project on male...

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Announcement comes as new report from Statistics Canada shows almost two million more Canadians have lost their jobs

A woman from Burlington, Ont., says she's had COVID-19 symptoms for nearly two months and hasn't felt entirely supported by health-care workers.

The outbreak, and the travel bans and fears that come with it, have endangered long-running research projects

Yes, most infectious diseases are seasonal. But waiting for COVID-19 to wane on its own is a bad idea

Bringing historical context and scientific evidence as the pandemic unfolds

An early childhood education expert provides tips about how to explain the ongoing pandemic to children

One detects an active infection; another signals that the virus has already left the body. Both are critical for tracking the spread of disease

The pandemic has left many unable to leave harbor, creating a window for fishing grounds to recover from years of overfishing

False information about the pandemic is rampant; here’s how experts say you can identify what news to trust and what might be faulty

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic

Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope of tackling COVID-19 than developing and manufacturing a vaccine, argue an international team of scientists.

Researchers analyzed patient data from 10 countries. The team found a correlation between low vitamin D levels and hyperactive immune systems. Vitamin D strengths innate immunity and prevents overactive immune responses. The finding could explain several mysteries, including why children are unlikely to die from COVID-19.

New modeling of coronavirus behavior suggests that an intervention strategy based on shield immunity could reduce the risk of allowing the higher levels of human interaction needed to support expanded economic activity.

A new process to harness multiple disease models for outbreak management has been developed by an international team of researchers. The team will immediately implement the process to help inform policy decisions for the COVID-19 outbreak.

Treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients with anticoagulants -- blood thinners that slow down clotting -- may improve their chances of survival, researchers report. The study could provide new insight on how to treat and manage coronavirus patients once they are admitted to the hospital.

A new study finds that temperature and latitude do not appear to be associated with the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but school closures and other public health measures are having a positive effect.

Catering companies are having to get creative to stay in business during COVID-19.

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in La Loche is being attributed to citizens who've ignored physical distancing measures.

Due to COVID-19, what we think of as traditional funerals are unable take place in Saskatchewan, and it's taking a toll on those who have lost loved ones.

What hasn't changed much in the past two month and may not change by the fall is the political fortunes of the NDP and Sask. Party.

CEO Tim Cook talked at least as much about COVID-19 efforts as the business itself.

Here’s what notifications for iOS and Android COVID-19 tracing will look like.

Amid the intense scrutiny on the company over working conditions at its fulfillment centers, an Amazon employee has died from COVID-19, Fox News has confirmed.

Future Navy SEALs will conduct combat scenarios six-feet apart, emulate high-risk combat scenarios, study in smaller classrooms and be directed by megaphones at farther distances, because more candidates for the special operations unit are again competing, training and preparing for war following temporary delays caused by COVID 19.

On the heels of the Federal Trade Commission’s latest warning about coronavirus treatment scams, here are five scams to be aware of. 

Siemens is preparing for a prolonged economic trough triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief Executive Joe Kaeser told CNBC on Friday after releasing fiscal second-quarter results.

Moderna Inc and Swiss contract drugmaker Lonza Group AG said on Friday they would accelerate the manufacturing of the U.S. drug developer's potential coronavirus vaccine.

In the battle against coronavirus, Swiss soldiers are using smartphones to test a new contact tracing application that could prevent infections while also protecting users' privacy.

The Australian government on Monday set aside A$300 million ($191 million) to jumpstart hydrogen projects with the help of low-cost financing as the country aims to build the industry by 2030, the country's energy minister said on Monday.

A llama called Winter could prove useful in the hunt for a treatment for COVID-19, according to U.S. and Belgian scientists who have identified a tiny particle that appears to block the new coronavirus.

At an outer suburban manufacturing plant, engineer Byron Kennedy is resetting a machine to spray-print a layer of copper on to a door handle, aiming to use the metal's antiviral properties to counter the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A 1966 manuscript, on which a young Bob Dylan typed and wrote lyrics for a track on his "Blonde on Blonde" album and another song he later abandoned, went on sale at Sotheby's auction house from Tuesday.

Nigerian comedian Maryam Apaokagi has a sure-fire way of getting people to listen to her coronavirus health advice - she delivers it with a hard slap in the face.

Magician Roy Horn, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built around rare tigers, died on Friday from of complications of COVID-19, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper reported. He was 75.

The U.S. Postal Service on Friday said its losses more than doubled to $4.5 billion in the quarter ending in March and warned the economic slowdown spurred by the spread of COVID-19 could severely hurt its finances over the next 18 months.

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