In Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest city, a surge in deaths has overwhelmed health care and burial services. Scenes of bodies on sidewalks and desperate families serve as a warning for the region.
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Hydroxychloroquine and Coronavirus: Fact-Check on the Malaria Drug Trump Keeps Pushing
Here are the facts on hydroxychloroquine, which the president has promoted despite little evidence that it works against the coronavirus.
Coronavirus Turns Urban Life’s Roar to Whisper on World’s Seismographs
Geoscientists are getting a clearer picture of what’s going on beneath our feet as lockdowns keep many of us at home.
The Lesson We Are Learning From Zoom
The popular app offered the simplest path to videoconferencing in a pandemic. That doesn’t make it the right path to take.
Wall Street Rallies as Investors Focus on the Recovery
Live updates on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump Slammed the W.H.O. Over Coronavirus. He’s Not Alone.
Critics say the World Health Organization was too trusting of China and did not push it on its early missteps. But supporters say the agency’s powers over any government are limited.
Saudi Arabia Declares Cease-Fire in Yemen, Citing Fears of Coronavirus: Live Updates
The head of the World Health Organization warned that politicizing the coronavirus pandemic would result in “many more body bags.”
Coronavirus Invades Saudi Inner Sanctum
More than six weeks after Saudi Arabia reported its first case, the coronavirus is striking at the heart of the kingdom’s sprawling royal family.
How Doctors Are Treating Covid-19 Patients
We want to hear from the doctors, nurses and health care workers risking their lives to save us from the coronavirus pandemic. What makes you do what you do?
Eight U.K. Doctors Died From Coronavirus. All Were Immigrants.
In a country where anti-immigrant sentiment gave rise to the Brexit movement, Britain’s health care system depends heavily on foreign doctors, who are now on the front lines fighting the epidemic.