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,”…

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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…

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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…

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