Health

When treatment facilities ignore coronavirus protocols, patients are forced to choose between recovery and safety.

Guterres said the pandemic has raised growing questions about the effectiveness of health systems, social services, trust in institutions and systems of governance.

Six New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories issued Tuesday afternoon due to exceeding the allowable bacteria threshold, state officials said.

The University of Pennsylvania announced that the vast majority of undergraduate classes will be online, with some exceptions like clinical rotations for nursing students.

President Trump falsely claimed that children are “almost immune” from the coronavirus, but a new review of state data finds child cases are up 40%.

The countries with the most infections are the U.S., India and Brazil. Russia has the fourth most.

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has posted an “overcrowding alert" saying some parks have been turning people away and closing overflow parking.

A review by the Kaiser Health News service and AP finds at least 48 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states.

The vaccine developed by the Plymouth Meeting firm and Wistar Institute researchers finished Phase I trials and is moving to an accelerated Phase II/III.

Contact tracing is key to keeping a community's positivity rate below 1.

The milestone was reached as new cases run at about 54,000 a day. Cases are rising in nearly 20 states, and deaths are climbing in most.

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part.