Health

This is the opposite of what a straightforward read of decades of political psychology research would predict.

A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates a hostile takeover of their genes unlike any other known viruses do.

Steve Hart has spent 40 years preparing for every potential disaster the human race might face. So how does he fare in a pandemic?

The city has survived many different versions of itself.

Reality TV now feels like a constant reminder of life pre- and post-pandemic.

Imposing restrictions even a week earlier could have saved lives, researchers found.

At least four states combined data from two different test results, potentially providing a misleading picture of when and where coronavirus spread as the nation eases restrictions.

The government's disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.

My pod makes me feel like I can stay in lockdown for much longer.

Barbershops and hair salons in California have been closed since mid-March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that doesn't mean people haven't been getting haircuts, secretly, this whole time.

Some people who have survived the coronavirus describe being shunned by relatives and friends, rather than being celebrated.

Animals that grow past target weight quickly become unsellable. Researchers are now trying to slow growth and buy time until plants reopen.

Someone who looks like they're always staying inside on Instagram may actually have a double life they're hiding to avoid judgment.

Yes, you'll have to stay six feet apart even when you're in the water.

People who struggled with leaving the house before COVID-19 are coping with a potent mix of anger, fear and relief.

Bolinas, a tiny hippie enclave north of San Francisco, mounted one of the most advanced coronavirus-testing efforts in America. What did it learn?

Why some people who likely died from COVID-19 aren't included in the final numbers.

New figures from non-partisan APM Research Lab show staggering racial divide in coronavirus death rate across US.

Many states are lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions on social and business activity that were put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. Experts are keeping a close eye on whether states that have reopened are seeing an uptick in cases or a worsening in other key metrics.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO's response to the coronavirus pandemic is starting to alienate his fans.

Why do some healthy people develop severe symptoms? Do people who recover from COVID-19 become immune to the coronavirus? Our answers to readers' questions.

Here's a rundown of recent coronavirus studies, featuring ten pieces of good news in the war on COVID-19 — and ten pieces of bad news. A vaccine may be getting closer, but the coronavirus is also looking deadlier.

Experts debate whether the potential risks outweigh any hypothetical benefits.

Home exercise is a multi-billion dollar industry with roots a century old, but it's not so surprising it took being housebound for my husband to "discover" it, or that my preferred platform, Obé Fitness, has a pastel-pink aesthetic: working out from home has for decades been marketed mostly to women assumed both to spend more time in the house and more energy on their appearance.

The company made the announcement on Tuesday, saying demand had fallen in the wake of what it called "misinformation" about the product's safety amid a barrage of legal challenges.

Months into the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of forgotten cruise ship employees have no idea when they'll be back on land.

From the people who brought you the iPhone: a whole new theatrical experience.

The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.

The coronavirus and our disastrous national response to it has smashed optimists like me in the head.

Preventing big clusters of cases would help curb the pandemic, scientists say.

Immunity jealousy is probably going to be a thing. And experts say it could make an already difficult situation a lot worse.

Imagine this: the year is 2013. You've got 25 billion dollars you'd like to flush down the toilet, but your personal commode simply can't handle an entire cargo plane full of 100-dollar bills. Luckily for you, Uber is there.

This is what happened to a student's kidneys after he drank two gallons of coffee within three hours, which is way more than "no more than 400 milligrams per day" limit suggested by experts.

"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.