Health & Science

Masks are designed to prevent the wearer from possibly spreading the virus to others or being exposed themselves.

Arthur is expected to remain a tropical storm, potentially making landfall or brushing the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Monday.

Returning to the family home can be traumatizing for LGBTQ college students, psychologists say, especially if parents or siblings reject them or are even hostile.

Experts say it could take several weeks to see enough testing data to know how lifting restrictions is affecting the spread of COVID-19.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, less common symptoms are being reported including loss of smell, vomiting and diarrhea, and increasingly, a variety of skin problems.

In separate stark warnings, two major world leaders bluntly told their citizens that they need to adapt to living with COVID-19 and cannot wait to be saved by a vaccine.

The report made it clear: Bryant and the passengers almost certainly were dead in an instant due to blunt trauma.

They are often hundreds — even thousands — of people short of targets for their contact tracing programs.

More than 9,000 doses of the experimental drug are slated for distribution to hospitals across the state to treat COVID-19 infections.

The unsigned editorial sharply criticizes the Trump administration, saying it has marginalized the CDC to a degree that is dangerous for both the U.S. and the world.

The state’s purchase of 200,000 tests gives officials the ability to test up to 80,000 people monthly for the virus that has already infected more than 7,000 residents.

Facing growing criticism, the VA said Friday that it will not halt use of an unproven malaria drug on veterans with COVID-19 but that fewer of its patients are now taking it.

The state’s largest nurses’ union says health-care workers don’t have essential face masks, access to testing, and other safety measures.

Gov. Phil Murphy also said hospitals could resume elective produce on May 26, while the state will hold grand jury proceedings over Zoom.

Gov. John Carney unveiled a 25-page plan to launch Phase 1 of reopening the state including guidance for restaurants, retail stores and other locations.