How Pandemics End

When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how? According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes. “When people ask, ‘When will this end?,’ they are asking about the social ending,”…

Coronavirus World Tracker

Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical workers from Jilin Province, in red, embraced nurses from Wuhan after working together in April.Credit…Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images New cluster in China highlights the challenge of controlling infections as countries open up. The health authorities in northeast China have reported a new cluster of cases in…

Coronavirus News: Live Updates

Here’s what you need to know: Top health officials are quarantining after being exposed. ImageDr. Robert Redfield, left, who oversees the C.D.C., Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, second from left, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, right, who leads the F.D.A., are all members of the coronavirus…

Live Coronavirus World Updates

Here’s what you need to know: ImagePartitions at dining-hall tables in Suwon, South Korea, are in keeping with recommendations from the country’s task force of economists, sociologists and infectious-disease experts.Credit…Woohae Cho for The New York Times South Korea aimed for ‘a new daily life with Covid-19.’ Four days later, Seoul found a new cluster. Go…

Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump’s Support Among Seniors Slides as Pandemic Grows More Political

Here’s what you need to know: ImageAt a Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas in February.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times The virus has cost President Trump seniors’ support, and the pandemic is increasingly political. The coronavirus and the Trump administration’s response to it have cost President Trump support from one of his most crucial constituencies:…

Hospitals Struggle to Restart Lucrative Elective Care After Coronavirus Shutdowns

The shutdown of elective surgeries and other “nonessential” medical care by federal and state officials during the pandemic has left the nation’s 5,200 hospitals, particularly in places where there have been relatively few infections, with idle clinics, vacant operating rooms and a dearth of patients. “Our hospitals, like every other hospital in the country, are…