Triage and treatment tents have become ubiquitous in the current pandemic, improving throughput and keeping infectious but relatively well patients outside of the hospital. Emergency physician Josh Bucher, assistant professor…

One of the questions most people ask is how is this going to end? Ed Yong of the Atlantic outlines the steps that need to be taken. Three months ago,…

By Global Heathcare Data With the accelerating global burden from the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers are rapidly searching for a viable vaccine to combat the global public health emergency. In January,…

World Versus Virus is a weekly podcast from the World Economic Forum. Coping with COVID if you’re blind, and other stories in our new podcast WHO’s Bruce Aylward tells us how…

We may look back on coronavirus as the moment when the threads that hold the global economy together came unstuck Coronavirus’s economic danger is exponentially greater than its health risks…

The countries affected, the number of deaths and the economic impact Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to…

NOTE: This chart updates daily with new data. Also, the search button in the lower–left corner allows filtering of specific countries. At the outset of 2020, the world looked on…

The History of Pandemics Pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world. As humans have spread across the world, so have infectious diseases. Even in…

Seven human coronaviruses in seven graphics By the end of the day, there will be probably  550,000 Covid-19 cases , resulting in almost 24,000 fatalities worldwide. After its discovery last December, in…