Health An illustration of the novel coronavirus. By Please Note The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. What began with a handful of mysterious illnesses in a central China city has traveled the world. on the last day of 2019, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 705,000 people with infections surpassing 18 million worldwide. It has triggered , stock market and dangerous . Most cases are mild, but health officials say much is still unknown about the virus that causes the disease. The Washington Post has spoken to scores of doctors,...…Health An illustration of the novel coronavirus. By Please Note The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. What began with a handful of mysterious illnesses in a central China city has traveled the world. on the last day of 2019, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 705,000 people with infections surpassing 18 million worldwide. It has triggered , stock market and dangerous . Most cases are mild, but health officials say much is still unknown about the virus that causes the disease. The Washington Post has spoken to scores of doctors,...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by There are the exam gloves, the surgical masks, the and the deceptive disinfectants. If unchecked Internet information is any guide, there’s an inexhaustible list of products you should buy to prepare for the spread of the coronavirus in the United States — which, according to U.S. health officials, .But here’s the thing: The virus may be novel, but you really don’t need to buy...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by There are the exam gloves, the surgical masks, the and the deceptive disinfectants. If unchecked Internet information is any guide, there’s an inexhaustible list of products you should buy to prepare for the spread of the coronavirus in the United States — which, according to U.S. health officials, .But here’s the thing: The virus may be novel, but you really don’t need to buy...WW…

Add to list On my list Sheryl Means already has lost so much to the invisible virus burning through her hometown. Her mother and her aunt died within days of each other. Her sister has been on a ventilator for weeks in a hospital miles away, and there are no visitors allowed in the covid-19 isolation unit. She has this tightness in her chest, and she’s scared she might be next. But Means can’t get a test. Even now, six weeks into a national emergency, with the death toll still climbing in southwest Georgia, and her kin sick from the novel coronavirus. Even though, as a home health-care...…Add to list On my list Sheryl Means already has lost so much to the invisible virus burning through her hometown. Her mother and her aunt died within days of each other. Her sister has been on a ventilator for weeks in a hospital miles away, and there are no visitors allowed in the covid-19 isolation unit. She has this tightness in her chest, and she’s scared she might be next. But Means can’t get a test. Even now, six weeks into a national emergency, with the death toll still climbing in southwest Georgia, and her kin sick from the novel coronavirus. Even though, as a home health-care...WW…

Add to list On my list The novel coronavirus arrived in an Indiana farm town mid-planting season and took root faster than the fields of seed corn, infecting hundreds and killing dozens. It tore through a pork processing plant and spread outward in a desolate stretch of the Oklahoma Panhandle. And in Colorado’s sparsely populated eastern plains, the virus erupted in a nursing home and a pair of factories, burning through the crowded quarters of immigrant workers and a vulnerable elderly population. As the death toll nears 100,000, the disease caused by the virus has made a fundamental shift...…Add to list On my list The novel coronavirus arrived in an Indiana farm town mid-planting season and took root faster than the fields of seed corn, infecting hundreds and killing dozens. It tore through a pork processing plant and spread outward in a desolate stretch of the Oklahoma Panhandle. And in Colorado’s sparsely populated eastern plains, the virus erupted in a nursing home and a pair of factories, burning through the crowded quarters of immigrant workers and a vulnerable elderly population. As the death toll nears 100,000, the disease caused by the virus has made a fundamental shift...WW…