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Coronavirus disease

People wait in a long line at an oxygen distribution warehouse near downtown Mexico City.

Mexico’s COVID-19 wards are full. Many patients who can’t get oxygen die at home.

COVID-19

In many cities across Latin America, including Mexico City, patients with the coronavirus are struggling to receive vital medical oxygen to stay alive. Many who couldn’t find space in overflowing emergency rooms are dying at home.

A woman is show with her face in her hands and crouched down with a man next to her with his hand on her shoulder.

Brazil struggles with new COVID-19 strain; Entire Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal; Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia

Top of The World
A volunteer receives a shot

Demographics, preparedness may explain Africa’s low COVID-19 fatality rates

Health & Medicine
Dressed in protective gear to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, a medical worker massages a patient, at a military hospital set up to take care of COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19 takes its toll on Mexico’s health workers

COVID-19
Jeremiah Young, 11, examines his bandage covering during an appointment with Dr. Janice Bacon at the Community Health Care Center on the Tougaloo College campus in Tourgaloo, Miss., Aug. 14, 2020.

Study shows Black people twice as likely as whites to contract coronavirus

COVID-19
General view of the mink farm of Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen near Naestved, Denmark, Nov. 6, 2020.

Denmark orders culling of minks to fight coronavirus 

Business, Economics and Jobs

Some health experts question the move, while mink farmers worry about their livelihoods. 

Two coal miners in uniform with skinned blackened from coal mining.

COVID-19 is trouble for coal miners struggling with black lung disease

Health & Medicine

Former coal miners who suffer from black lung disease are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and many are not getting the care or the benefits they need.

A woman leader holds up a COVID-19 chart card.

It’s official: Women are better leaders in a pandemic

Leaders

A new analysis of 194 countries found that women-led nations have a better handle on the coronavirus pandemic. Not only were infection rates generally lower; fatality rates were also noticeably lower, too.

A member of medical staff takes coronavirus test samples of a woman during drive-thru coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, on a converted ice rink.

Public health experts worry about flu and coronavirus overlap

COVID-19

In the coming months, public health experts stress social distancing, frequent hand-washing, wearing masks and getting flu shots to stave off both illnesses.

Contact tracers are pictured in a room

COVID-19 threatens global progress in fight against other communicable diseases 

Concerns are growing that the singular focus on COVID-19 is having a secondary impact — threatening years of progress in efforts to slow the spread of other, long-standing communicable diseases.