Coronavirus

A pandemic seems inevitable, but its speed and impact can be mitigated

Eight public servants who visited the ship to support the quarantine contracted the virus

Outbreak expert takes down alarming YouTube video, says conditions on board the Princess Diamond have improved

Japanese government also slow to release epidemiological data about the Diamond Princess, critics say

A statement in The Lancet assails misinformation about the possibility that COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan, China

Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed

Apparent reference to earlier severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in virus name may meet resistance in China

Lack of antibody tests obscures impact of the novel virus

New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation

The challenge of constructing models to understand and slow the growth of a frightening outbreak

Modelers are trying to forecast how the virus will move, but they need better data

A traveler to Germany from China who infected another person did feel ill, contradicting New England Journal of Medicine report

Theories abound about how the virus that’s now rampant in China made its way from bats (almost certainly) to humans

After rejecting the label twice, the World Health Organization now calls spread of new coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

Chinese scientists are testing widely used antivirals in patients in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak

Even in the best-case scenario, developing, testing, and mass-producing a new vaccine takes many months