Coronavirus

Top White House officials have called the virus a "hoax," while right-wing media allies assail experts who are critical of their coronavirus response.

The White House’s neurotic obsession with hurting the disadvantaged is going to get us all killed (or, at least, many of us needlessly ill).

The coronavirus outbreak in China has come down hard on the country's poor who cannot afford to be quarantined, have less access to supplies, and do not have the money or the connections to leave the country.

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019, which originated in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, has led to increased prejudice, xenophobia, discrimination, violence, and racism against Chinese people and people of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent and appearance, particularly in Europe and Northern America. Some countries in Africa are also seeing rising anti-Asian sentiment.

Governments with authoritarian tendencies will always overstep in times of mass fear. Don't let them.

Iran’s political and economic isolation hasn’t stopped COVID-19—but sanctions are threatening to turn an outbreak into a catastrophe.

Concierge doctors, yachts, chartered planes and germ-free hideaways.

Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Friday that would require all employers to grant workers paid sick days in light of the global coronavirus spread. The bill unveiled by Rep.

If there’s an epidemic the government may not be able to keep its citizens safe, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

This list doesn't include Donald Trump Jr.'s claim that Democrats wanted the virus to spread and kill Americans.

Several global health units of the U.S. government have faced budget crises—or shut down completely.

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