A Washington state choir practice that saw one symptomatic person infect 87 percent of those who attended, was officially deemed a "superspreader event," according to a report published on Tuesday.
Across the U.S., a range of businesses are throwing in antibody tests with their normal services amid a surge in demand during the coronavirus pandemic, though health experts caution that many have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a Tuesday report.
California resident Gregg Garfield, 54, spent two months in the hospital battling the novel coronavirus and only had a 1 percent chance of surviving -- but he managed to beat the odds and was released Friday.
A Chinese man is recovering in a hospital after his lung collapsed following a 2.5-mile run in Wuhan, the initial epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, while wearing a face mask last week, the hospital said Monday.
Health officials in Georgia are scrambling to treat patients afraid to leave their homes amid the coronavirus outbreak -- as some nurses are now making house calls.
A railway worker in the United Kingdom died of the novel coronavirus after likely being infected with it by an ill traveler who allegedly spat on her, the union of which she was apart announced on Tuesday.
Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead -- and hospitals sometimes too full even when they could.
There has been a “notable decrease” in pediatric vaccine orders across the U.S. since mid-March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote in a recent report that highlighted how the coronavirus pandemic has affected vaccination rates in children across the country.
Investigations of SARS-CoV-2 so far have suggested, however, that the immune response to the virus also contributes to the devastating effects of the disease in some people.