The coronavirus quarantine has contributed to a surge in the demand for prescription tranquilizers and sleep aids in the United States, as Americans continue to feel on edge about the uncertainty of the disease, according to a new research report.
A group of New York City volunteers are collecting iPads from across the country and donating them to hospitals to help patients virtually connect with family members unable to be present.
The researchers claim their findings suggest that between 48,000 and 81,000 people in Santa Clara County had been infected with COVID-19 by April 1, while the total number of confirmed cases was less than 1,000.
A young boy in New York is in a dire situation after receiving a brain cancer diagnosis amid the coronavirus outbreak. For 4-year-old Matteo Ferruzzi of Suffolk County, his positive COVID-19 test has complicated the start of at least a year’s worth of chemotherapy treatment on an inoperable malignant brain tumor.
If the World Health Organization wants to continue receiving funding from the U.S., it should replace its current director-general, a group of Republican lawmakers said Thursday.
Saudi Arabia has pledged $500 million to combat the global coronavirus crisis that has infected more than 2 million people and killed at least 144,000 around the globe, the Middle Eastern nation announced Thursday.
A human rights organization says that a jailed Iranian Instagram star — known for her transformation into a “zombie Angelina Jolie” — is currently on a ventilator after contracting the coronavirus in custody.
Michael Cohen, the former attorney for President Trump will be released from prison early, where he will be allowed to serve the remainder of his three-year sentence from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple reports.
As the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera that kill millions every year. Also at risk are decades-long efforts that allowed the World Health Organization to set target dates for eradicating malaria, polio and other illnesses.
Kizzmekia Corbett, 34, who is proudly Christian and was born in a small town in North Carolina, has been leading a team of scientists working around the clock at the National Institutes of Health for an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus.