Cardiologists are seeing infected patients whose worst symptoms are not respiratory, but cardiac.
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A Deluged System Leaves Some Elderly to Die, Rocking Spain’s Self-Image
Even amid the coronavirus crisis, the tragedy unfolding in Spain’s nursing homes has shocked a nation that takes pride in its reverence for older people and in its health care system.
Death of Store Clerk in Italy Highlights Contagion’s New Front Line
The pandemic has turned people who fill often overlooked, low-paid jobs into unlikely heroes. They are also getting sick or dying.
Dip in Italy’s Cases Does Not Come Fast Enough for Swamped Hospitals
Even as new coronavirus infections appear to slow, a backlog is forcing doctors to make increasingly tough choices about treatment.
As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets
Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.
Plácido Domingo Says He Has the Coronavirus
“I beg everyone to be extremely careful,” the opera singer said in a Facebook post on Sunday after developing a fever and cough and testing positive for the virus.
Italy, Pandemic’s New Epicenter, Has Lessons for the World
The country’s experience shows that steps to isolate the coronavirus and limit people’s movement need to be put in place early, with absolute clarity, then strictly enforced.
Live Coronavirus News, Updates and Coverage
New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois were preparing to follow the lead set by California and New York in telling people to stay mostly inside. The Federal Reserve moved to backstop municipal money market funds, and the U.S. was set to close borders wit…
A Different Way to Chart the Spread of Coronavirus
Those skyrocketing curves tell an alarming story. But logarithmic graphs can help reveal when the pandemic begins to slow.
Privatized Pushbacks: How Merchant Ships Guard Europe
To hinder migrants crossing the Mediterranean, European navies stopped rescuing them. Now commercial ships are tasked with saving lives — and returning migrants to war-torn Libya.