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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for a rapid diagnostic, gene-editing tool in detecting the coronavirus.

After attributing a spike in coronavirus cases to so-called “coronavirus parties" earlier this week, officials in a southeastern Washington State county have now walked back the comments, saying the gatherings were “innocent endeavors.” 

The 105-year-old, who lived through the Spanish Flu pandemic, didn't know she had the coronavirus until she tested positive for it.

A new research study posted online Tuesday, claims that most patients who recover from the novel coronavirus will make antibodies despite age, gender, or how badly they were infected. 

The ongoing coronavirus epidemic complicates CPR on patients, doctors say. 

Officials in a Long Island, N.Y., town wants its some 200,000 residents to shed some pounds in an effort to stave off the novel coronavirus and reverse any quarantine-related weight gain, or the so-called “quarantine 15.” 

Why Lyme disease patients could be at a higher risk for severe infection should they contract the novel coronavirus, according to an expert.

Business will resume at a Portland meat processing plant after a nearly weeklong shutdown.

The uncertainty surrounding the pandemic as well as the plethora of information available via the internet may also be adding to the worry, one of the doctors involved in the survey said.

One hospital in Bangkok dressed newborns with face shields to protect against coronavirus infection. The CDC recommends otherwise.

Heads up, Ohioans: If you’re in need of a job, the state Department of Health may have one for you.

In the U.S., all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying over 1,245,622 illnesses and at least 75,054 deaths.

A South Carolina woman wanted for licking her hands and touching items at a local sandwich shop, was arrested Saturday after she was caught doing the same thing inside a grocery store, police said.

The World Health Organization has suggested that deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with coronavirus may help speed up the search for a potential vaccine.

California is expected to be refunded $247 million it paid to a Chinese car company under a major, yet "murky" deal for protective masks, according to state officials on Wednesday.

Residents of a southern Washington state county who attended so-called “coronavirus parties" could be behind an increase of cases in the community, local health officials said this week when urging residents to continue to adhere to social distancing measures.

Tocilizumab drug treatment shows promise for critically ill coronavirus patients, an expert says.

The team's lead author said dried blood-spot sampling offers an inexpensive, painless way for people to collect their own blood before sending it into a lab.

To pay it forward nearly 200 years later, many Irish people have donated money to a Native American tribe that has been hit hard by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. 

Immunizations in llamas may prove useful in studying treatment for coronavirus.