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Doctors reusing masks between patients. Nurses going to work, even if they've been exposed to the novel coronavirus, to meet demand.

While there's concern for the elderly catching coronavirus, there's another high-risk group that has nothing to do with age.

As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread, it has required rapid and creative problem solving as well as the enactment of public health measures that two months ago seemed like science fiction. We are now facing the possibility that the American health care system could become overwhelmed in the coming months. Experts have warned that not only would this result in a shortage of hospital beds and ventilators, but also a shortage of the healthcare workforce required to treat patients.

While our abilities to go to work and participate in other activities outside the home are under restriction, initial discomfort may quickly result in "cabin fever." At least, that's something people say. But is cabin fever real? And if it is, can we lower it?

As a volunteer counselor at Crisis Text Line, Sara Schaller often receives texts from people who are thinking about harming themselves. But now, amid a global pandemic, she's noticing a shift in the messages: "More anxiety and panic. More fear and not knowing what to do with themselves."

Governments and manufacturers are adopting drastic measures to produce more ventilators as the coronavirus pandemic places unprecedented demand on the world's hospitals.

New studies in several countries and a large coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts bring into question reassuring assertions by US officials about the way the novel virus spreads.

It took a coronavirus outbreak to remind us that we touch our faces way too many times. And cutting down on that will help stop the spread of the virus, health officials say.

When it comes to novel coronavirus protection, face masks are futile. There isn't a vaccine yet. So the best way to prevent transmission of the novel coronavirus is washing your hands -- thoroughly -- with soap and water, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As coronavirus has infected every state in the nation and people are stuck inside their homes in an attempt to prevent it from spreading even more, things are feeling a little bleak.

When the official word finally came that they closed our kids' schools "indefinitely" -- my new least favorite word -- my wife and I had the same thought: We need a schedule!

Up to 20% of people hospitalized with coronavirus in the United States are young adults between ages 20 to 44, a new federal study shows.

The American healthcare system might not be prepared for what's next in the coronavirus pandemic if people don't heed warnings from authorities, health officials say.

As the coronavirus death toll rises and quarantine forces Americans into lockdowns, details on patients killed by the virus are slowly trickling in.

Italy is entering its fourth week of the worst national crisis since World War II with no end in sight.

The novel coronavirus seems to hit health care workers harder than others who contract the disease, but it's unclear why, according to disease experts.

A lawyer who's been tied to a cluster of coronavirus cases in hard-hit New Rochelle, New York, appears to be recovering from the illness, his wife said Wednesday.

The coronavirus driving the current pandemic can live on plastic and stainless steel surfaces for up to three days, researchers say in a study published as a letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Like most Americans, I've spent the last several days learning to alter my daily life in the context of this unfamiliar construct of "social distancing." As a surgeon in the midst of preparing for the challenges of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, I am beginning to worry about the implications of what I call "patient distancing" --separating families from their loved ones in hospitals and long-term care facilities.