Health

How pandemic anxiety is affecting pregnant women

By Shefali Luthra, The 19th

Pregnant people in the pandemic are even more vulnerable to depression and anxiety. It's a problem the U.S. is already struggling to address.

WHO urges proactive COVID-19 testing, despite CDC's recent flip flop

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization says countries should actively test people to find coronavirus cases, even if they have mild or no symptoms.

How nations are going back to school -- or not

By Associated Press

Governments around the world are taking different strategies toward the new school year, depending on how many infections they're seeing, the state of their health care systems and political considerations.

Are U.S. medical experts being influenced by the Trump administration?

By William Brangham

Questions are again being raised about whether the Trump administration is injecting politics into science -- and the national pandemic response. Recent moves by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appear to conflict…

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WATCH: Pelosi calls new CDC guidelines 'scary and dangerous'

By Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on coronavirus testing "scary and dangerous."…

Officials change COVID testing advice, bewildering experts

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people.

New COVID-19 mandates on health care facilities get pushback

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it will require facilities to test staff regularly or face fines. It included a thinly veiled threat to cut off Medicare and Medicaid funds to facilities that fail to send in certain…

New virus cases decline in the U.S. and experts credit masks

By Carla K. Johnson, Adam Geller, Associated Press

The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks — even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day.

University of Alabama shuts down bars amid spike in COVID-19 cases

By Associated Press

Tuscaloosa is closing bars for the next two weeks after what University of Alabama officials call an unacceptable rise in coronavirus cases on campus.

FDA chief apologizes for overstating plasma effect on coronavirus

By Deb Reichmann, Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Responding to outcries from medical experts, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn is admitting he overstated the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.