The CDC is urging “universal face mask use” for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, citing recent case spikes as the U.S. has …
CDC Calls for 'Universal Face Mask Use' Everywhere Outside of the Home
For the first time, the CDC is urging Americans to wear face masks everywhere outside of their own homes as COVID-19 cases spike across the country. Plus, U.S. hospitals have reached their tipping point — they're out of space to treat virus patients, the coronavirus is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., and how curfews can slow the spread of the virus.

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A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.
(CNN) — The first coronavirus vaccines are out -- delivered by FedEx and UPS to hospitals across the country and into the arms of health care workers in hospitals in large cities such as New York and DC....
The coronavirus is quickly becoming one of the leading causes of death in the United States, experts say. Thursday was the deadliest day of the pandemic in the U.S., with 2,897 deaths, according to Johns...
The order, which will be applied by region, will require nonessential businesses to close when ICU capacity falls below 15 percent. California Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced a new regional stay-at-home Thursday,...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicators of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, have been on the rise since …
Easy access to free Covid-19 testing is foundational to fighting the pandemic, experts say. So why is it still so difficult to get a test? Allie Vruggink and her boyfriend, Jeremy Quillian, followed the...
The United Kingdom gave emergency approval this week to a COVID-19 vaccine and plans to begin rolling it out next week. Though Russia had previously approved a vaccine, the U.K. is the first country where...
In September, as Pfizer and partner BioNTech were quickly advancing a study of their Covid-19 vaccine, dozens of well-known academics sent an open …
BERGAMO, Italy — When Franco Orlandi, a usually hale former truck driver, arrived in mid-February with a cough and fever at an emergency room in the northern Italian province of Bergamo, doctors determined...
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