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    For Parents, a New Level of Big-Picture Anxiety

    To parents with a penchant for it, worry is a love language, so primal as to feel eternal. It’s not. By and large, fretting...

    The White House Bet on Abbott’s Rapid Tests. It Didn’t Work Out.

    People without Covid-19 symptoms have been among those taking the test on White House grounds, where individuals who received negative results were granted swift...

    Plexiglass Barriers Won’t Stop the Virus at the Debate, Experts Warn

    A box fan, an air filter — and duct tape to attach them.With four such cobbled together devices, at perhaps a total of $150,...

    White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Trump Rose Garden Event

    On Friday, the Republican National Committee sent the New Jersey Department of Health a list of 206 guests for contact tracing purposes, but the...

    ‘Don’t Be Afraid of Covid,’ Trump Says, Undermining Public Health Messages

    Mr. Trump, after being in the hospital for three nights, said he was feeling better than he felt 20 years ago. But the president...

    What All That Touch Deprivation Is Doing to Us

    Back in June, a few hundred epidemiologists and infectious disease experts interviewed by The New York Times said that it would likely be a...

    ‘I Won’t Be Used as a Guinea Pig for White People’

    Ms. Arnold seized the moment. Go door to door with me, she pressed. Talk to folks about Covid-19 safety, about signing up for the...

    How Much Would Trump’s Coronavirus Treatment Cost Most Americans?

    The New York Times is investigating the costs associated with testing and treatment for the coronavirus and how the pandemic is changing health care...

    White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines

    WASHINGTON — Top White House officials are blocking strict new federal guidelines for the emergency release of a coronavirus vaccine, objecting to a provision...

    Distrust of China Jumps to New Highs in Democratic Nations

    SYDNEY, Australia — Xi Jinping celebrates China’s battle against the coronavirus as a success. But in the United States and other wealthy democracies, the...

    A Timeline of Trump’s Symptoms and Treatments

    President Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening, walking up the steps of the South Portico and removing his mask to pose...

    After Meat Workers Die of Covid-19, Families Fight for Compensation

    After Saul Sanchez tested positive for the coronavirus at a hospital in Greeley, Colo., he spoke to his daughter on the phone and asked...

    Charting a Coronavirus Infection – The New York Times

    After months of downplaying the threat of the Covid-19 pandemic, President Trump announced early Friday morning...

    Use of Dexamethasone to Treat Trump Suggests Severe Covid-19, Experts Say

    Using multiple drugs at once could have an impact on their effectiveness, and it increases the risk of harmful drug interactions, said Dr. McGinn.“You’re...

    U.S. Lab Chimps Stuck in Retirement Limbo

    Dr. Collins stated that chimpanzees are our closest relatives and “deserving of special attention,” and activists embraced what seemed to many of them an...

    Carter Williams, Who Unshackled Nursing Home Residents, Dies at 97

    In journal articles, conferences, congressional hearings and meetings with regulators, Carter Catlett Williams illuminated the miseries of nursing home residents with the sympathetic and...