Dan Levy Gives A Persuasive Argument For People Who Refuse To Wear Masks
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy attempts to re-contextualize the reason to wear a mask for people who think it's a violation of their civil liberties.
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy attempts to re-contextualize the reason to wear a mask for people who think it's a violation of their civil liberties.
Fish Tales Bar & Grill in Ocean City is trying an experiment in social distancing.
In over 80 interviews, ESPN found baseball's attempt to restart is less a baseball season than a military-style operation in which any number of variables could derail the plan or, worse, contribute to the spread of the deadly disease.
The scientist who created Florida's COVID-19 data portal wasn't just removed from her position on May 5, she was fired on Monday by the Department of Health, she said, for refusing to manipulate data.
Designers, medical professionals and HR experts geek out over the return of privacy to the workplace — and how the way we work will never be the same.
How King Arthur Flour found itself in the unlikely crosshairs of a pandemic.
Population density didn't make COVID-19 worse in New York City. If you want to know what went wrong, you have to think a lot smaller.
What happens when you're quarantined in a crumbling home in a remote village where you barely speak the language and can't get home to your loved ones? Does life quickly become a nightmare?
"I wanted to show it can happen to anyone. It doesn't matter if you're young or old, have preexisting conditions or not. It can affect you."
University presidents are scrambling for answers on everything from on-campus housing to revenue-generating sports.
"You can kick their balls, but you can't touch them."
"You want to help healthcare workers? These are the goddamn N95 masks that we have to deal with."
COVID survivors are lining up to donate desperately needed plasma, but a discombobulated maze of testing, miscommunication and early misunderstandings is stopping them at every turn.
Deaths from accidents are the biggest source of organs for transplant, accounting for 33% of donations, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, UNOS, which manages the nation's organ transplant system. But since the coronavirus forced Californians indoors, accidents have declined.
Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability — and desire — to do so goes away?
On the existential comforts of coaxing yeast out of air, kneading, proofing, baking and sharing.
Dining out right now will come with certain risks. Here's what you can do to keep yourself and others around you safe.
Mistrust, a disorganized response and a president who thought his spring would be a coronation. What could possibly go wrong?
STAT spoke to leading health care thinkers about how the coronavirus has shattered long-standing assumptions about health policy in the US.
In response to a Sports Illustrated survey on the effects of the pandemic, minor league teams made one thing clear: an American institution will never be the same.
Yes, it's time-consuming. No, it's not hard. Yes, you'll learn something.
Despite the great scientific strides in diabetes care, the rate of amputations across the country grew by 50% between 2009 and 2015. Diabetics undergo 130,000 amputations each year, often in low-income and underinsured neighborhoods. Black patients lose limbs at a rate triple that of others.
The vast majority of us have no idea if we were, are, or will be sick. In the absence of any verifiable information, there's nothing to do but live with the knowledge that every action is possibly flawed and potentially fatal.
The choir practice case is a primary example of super-spreading, but there have been others — notably gatherings on a cruise ship and at a funeral, an international conference and in a women's prison.
Audiences are more splintered than ever, and even the most popular television series can't seem to generate the same level of discussion as "Thrones." But there's reason to think the TV monoculture isn't gone forever.
People from across California and even from outside the state have been driving hours to visit beauty salons in neighboring Sutter and Yuba counties, which have opened their parlors under local guidance despite Gov. Newsom's stay-at-home order.
The way out of a lockdown is much harder than the way in.
The disease that has put the entire world on pause is easily communicable, capable of stowing silently away in certain hosts and killing others, and, to the human eye, entirely invisible.
Conspiracy theorists claim — without evidence — that coronavirus death figures have been inflated, the lockdown is unlawful and Bill Gates is somehow responsible for it all.
Most doctors were expecting Covid-19 to resemble a severe lung disease. What they encountered was a virus that wreaked devastation on the entire body.
Just as the 2011 tsunami in Japan revealed the hidden pieces of the ocean floor, the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing ugly truths about our way of life.
Copper masks are more expensive than typical cloth ones. Are they worth the cost?
Moderna's early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine produced Covid-19 antibodies in all 45 participants, sending the company's shares surging.
A nasal swab is a small price to pay to visit a country that had a pandemic plan ready and stuck to it.
In Hawaii, a unique historical site sheds light on a story of prejudice, resilience — and aloha.
The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.
State leaders are facing objections even as they begin lifting some restrictions.
The Italian prime minister is reopening borders to help the economy.
For a moment, think of the United States as a human body. Full of heart and mind. Bile and blood. Muscle and fat. Like any body, it has its strengths and weaknesses, and must consistently work to prevent disease and optimize function. It needs to nourish itself, exercise and take care of its physical and mental health.
What went wrong in the president's first real crisis — and what does it mean for the US?
A stir-crazy nation wonders: Is it safe to stroll on the beach in a deadly pandemic? How about a picnic in the park? Or coffee with a friend at an outdoor table? The risk is in the details.
Redditor mab97 crunched the numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases from around the globe using data from John Hopkins University and produced an animated bar chart showing the breakdown of the case count from February 21 to May 14, 2020.
A Stanford whistleblower complaint alleges that the controversial John Ioannidis study failed to disclose important financial ties and ignored scientists' concerns that their antibody test was inaccurate.
Nebraska was already having a tough time with COVID-19. Then some talented people from Utah with a famous cheerleader hyping their product got involved.
In the Upper East Side, the West Village, SoHo and Brooklyn Heights, population decreased by 40 percent or more.
California's governor and San Francisco's mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far.
America is supposed to be the world leader in medical innovation. Is it paying off during the coronavirus crisis?
Like almost every woman of my generation, I was raised on a diet. After decades of obsessing over my weight, quarantine is finally giving me permission to stop caring.
A necessary conversation about how to best rethink a decades-old but arbitrary "rule."
The German soccer league restarts tomorrow.
Tracking hospital cases helps to see the severity of the virus' spread.
The full extent of the death toll from the coronavirus is hard to contemplate but this graph reveals the big picture.
Health experts say we need up to 200,000 more people to track down the infected and anyone who crossed their path. I took the training to learn how it works.
While Americans are mostly on the same page about current social distancing measures, there are also signs that they increasingly disagree about where the crisis is headed.
Being immune was once a status symbol — and another way to segregate and divide humanity.
Sweden's outbreak has been far deadlier than those of its neighbors, but it's still better off than many countries that enforced strict lockdowns.
The syndrome, called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), has been seen in children across Europe and in at least 18 states, plus Washington, DC.
Avi Schiffmann, a teenager in Washington State, created a coronavirus tracker website that has more than 30 million visitors each day.
The reported numbers leave out thousands of deaths clearly resulting from the pandemic.
"This is worse and weirder than anything I've ever seen."