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Byline: Ashish K. Jha Many Americans take for granted that we can get health care when we need it. Access and coverage are real concerns for some, yet even the [...]

Byline: Lenny Bernstein With few options left, overwhelmed doctors and other caregivers are appealing directly to governors for relief from the staggering increases in hospitalized covid-19 patients as the virus [...]

Byline: Ken Beckley I said goodbye to my wife on FaceTime. The two of us were strict about wearing face masks, washing and sanitizing our hands, and physical distancing. Yet [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix For the rising actress in Hong Kong, who had broken free of the poverty of her peasant parents, 2020 began as a moment of hope. For the [...]

The family's 73-year-old matriarch, three of her 11 children and her sister all died of Covid-19. Her survivors are focused on finding a remedy. FREEHOLD, N.J. -- Each morning they [...]

Byline: As told to Eli Saslow I didn't think she could die like this. Even once her fever hit 104 and her heart started racing out of control, my mind [...]

As the number of deaths in the ranks of veterans continues to rise, we need to revisit our enduring commitment to their care. I had loaned my body to America. [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - The two Russian paramedics were dressed for work in the video, masks covering their noses and mouths as they delivered a grim dispatch. The narrator [...]

Cuomo reports slight uptick in deaths but fewer hospitalizations in New York. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo arrived on Saturday to the New York City Transit's Corona Maintenance Facility in Queens [...]

India reports its biggest single-day rise in cases. India reported 2,293 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday, its biggest single-day increase yet, according to Health Ministry officials. The country [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel For the second straight week, a Japanese medical expert has questioned whether the Tokyo Olympics can move forward next summer without a covid-19 vaccine. 'In my view, [...]

The world began this week to see small but encouraging signs that concerted efforts to drastically change human behavior -- to suspend daily routines by staying at home -- are [...]

Byline: Michael L. Barnett For Print Use Only. Our office, like those of most primary care doctors, is usually packed. I run around, trying to fit 30 minutes of conversation [...]

Byline: Sally Jenkins Myron Rolle's hands are used to moving from one unalike task to another. He has batted away footballs and wielded a blade in neurosurgery with equal deftness [...]

Byline: Kyle Monk Cory Deburghgraeve, a 33-year-old Chicago physician, on his job amid the coronavirus pandemic, as told to Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow: - - - I could be [...]

Byline: William Booth LONDON - In a rare televised speech, Queen Elizabeth II urged the British people Sunday to show their self-discipline and quiet resolve during the coronavirus pandemic that [...]

Byline: Rachel Morris, Anthony Charles and Christopher Tignanelli You already know the story: In about a month, the national coronavirus pandemic has exploded to more than 300,000 confirmed cases. In [...]

Britain has long offered public guidance on when to deny lifesaving treatment but has hesitated with the coronavirus. Many worry that decisions may harm the poor, the aged and people [...]

Critics say that the plan may not go to hospitals in the states hit the hardest so far and that it fails to address the problems of uninsured people more [...]

LOS ANGELES -- One is a top-ranked research hospital in West Los Angeles, with buildings named after Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand. Its hallways are hung with works by Picasso, [...]

Byline: Natasha Lindstrom April 03-- Apr. 3--Western Pennsylvania's two largest insurers pledged Thursday to eliminate any out-of-pocket costs for patients who are treated for covid-19 at an in-network hospital. Both [...]

Byline: Craig Spencer For Print Use Only. NEW YORK - There are tents outside our hospitals. Every time I see them, I stop, startled. Their drab and dirty flaps seem [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison The coronavirus pandemic has been likened to a war. But journalists are largely absent from the harrowing, heartbreaking front line of this crisis: hospitals. [...]

Pentagon Captain Who Sought HelpIs Relieved of Command The Navy removed the captain of the stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt on Thursday, only days after he implored his superior officers [...]

With a spike in coronavirus cases, many of us are left wondering why. DETROIT -- Dwight Jones, my high school basketball coach, died on Monday from the coronavirus. He had [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo, Jenna Portnoy and Fenit Nirappil Washington-area leaders slammed the Trump administration Thursday over significant shortfalls in the number of hospital ventilators, respirator masks, gloves and other supplies [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo, Jenna Portnoy and Fenit Nirappil Washington, D.C.-area leaders slammed the Trump administration Thursday over major shortfalls in the number of hospital ventilators, respirator masks, gloves and other [...]

Byline: Daniel Wikler Rationing occurs in the United States. Anyone on a waiting list for a kidney or liver transplant knows this. But in just two weeks, a compelling need [...]

Byline: Megan L. Ranney, Jeremy Samuel Faust and Chuck Pozner For Print Use Only. When there are no ventilators to be had, no intensive-care-unit beds to be occupied, what will [...]

Guidelines that could determine which coronavirus patients get prioritized for lifesaving care vary by state, involving factors such as age, health problems, pregnancy and cognitive abilities. A hospital in Washington [...]

It's likely you can, at least for some period of time. That is opening new opportunities for testing and treatment. As the number of people infected with the coronavirus surpasses [...]

Byline: Megan Guza March 25-- Mar. 25--Of the more than 1,000 coronavirus patients across Pennsylvania, 38 have been admitted to an intensive care unit, state health officials said Wednesday. Hospitals [...]

Byline: Max Boot For Print Use Only. British soldiers in World War I were widely believed to have sacrificed their lives needlessly in futile offensives ordered by incompetent generals ensconced [...]

Byline: Michelle Romeo I'm on my eighth hour Saturday working in suffocating protective gear - mask, face shield, gown and gloves - when an elderly patient is wheeled into room [...]

''We are not prepared,'' one doctor said. New York City's hospitals may be moving too slowly as the outbreak spreads, experts say. Two of the biggest hospital systems in the [...]

Byline: William Wan, Ariana Eunjung Cha and Lena H. Sun For weeks now, America's leaders and its public have been obsessed with one set of numbers: How many people have [...]

Byline: Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli ROME - Nearly every day in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, more people arrive at hospitals than the day before - and all [...]

Byline: William Booth It is now surely one of the most-read medical reports among caregivers in intensive care units around the world who are bracing for the novel coronavirus. The [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler For two months now, global health and government officials have been trying to stem the coronavirus outbreak, quarantining citizens, locking down towns and creating triage protocols in [...]

A senior Chinese official in Hong Kong on his government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. HONG KONG -- China is making headway in the battle against the Covid-19 epidemic. The [...]

Team members were not properly trained, lacked necessary gear and moved freely around and off military bases where Americans were quarantined, a complaint says. WASHINGTON -- Federal health employees interacted [...]

Byline: Lena H. Sun, Christopher Rowland and Lenny Bernstein Major U.S. hospital systems are burning through their supplies of specialized masks needed for a widespread epidemic of coronavirus, in part [...]