coronavirus

Numbers alone cannot capture the extent of the losses that have occurred as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Datasets are crude tools for plumbing the depth of human suffering or the immensity of our collective grief.However, numbers…

PROVIDENCE, RI - Die Zahlen begannen im September zu steigen. Nach einem ruhigen Sommer begannen die Ärzte des Rhode Island Hospital, in jeder Schicht ein oder zwei Patienten mit Covid-19 zu sehen - und bald drei. Dann vier.Die Zahl der…

A small group of scientists and others who believe the novel coronavirus that started the pandemic could be due to a laboratory leak or accident are calling for an investigation, independent of the World Health Organization's team of…

New unemployment claims fell last week, the government reported Thursday, the latest sign that the labor market recovery, slow and unstable as it may be, is continuing."The numbers look encouraging at first glance," said Gregory Daco, chief…

Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases, hospitalizations and deaths has yo-yoed before, but never has it plunged so steeply and so fast.Is this it, then? Is…

A new form of coronavirus is spreading rapidly in New York City and has a worrying mutation that can make vaccines less effective, two research teams have found.The new variant, named B.1.526, first appeared in samples collected in the city…

A Michigan woman died 61 days after receiving a pair of lungs from an organ donor infected with the coronavirus. This came out from a case report published this month.There was no evidence that the donor, a woman who was fatally injured in…

President Biden is also pushing for faster vaccinations - a case he is expected to bring on Friday when he travels to Kalamazoo, Michigan, to visit the manufacturing facility of Pfizer, one of two manufacturers of federally approved…

What about the cases that occurred before the fish market erupted?There were other spreads outside of the Huanan market. There are other patients unrelated to the market, some in December. There were other markets. And we know that some…

France, like most of Europe, saw an increase in coronavirus cases in winter as new variants spread across the continent. Now the number of cases seems to be stabilizing, partly thanks to a curfew at 6 p.m., but remains high. There were…