Daily Coronavirus Cases in the U.S. Soar Past 50,000 for the First Time

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Researchers Debate Infecting People With Coronavirus to Test Vaccines

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Coronavirus Was Moving Through NY in Early February

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Coronavirus Survivors: Here’s What Recovery May Look Like

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Coronavirus Live Updates: Some States Halt Reopenings and Indoor Dining as Cases Surge

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Daily Coronavirus Cases in the U.S. Soar Past 50,000 for the First Time

By Kristie J. Fields 17 hours ago

Researchers Debate Infecting People With Coronavirus to Test Vaccines

By Kristie J. Fields 1 day ago

Coronavirus Was Moving Through NY in Early February

By Kristie J. Fields 2 days ago

Coronavirus Survivors: Here’s What Recovery May Look Like

By Kristie J. Fields 2 days ago

Daily Coronavirus Cases in the U.S. Soar Past 50,000 for the First Time

By Kristie J. Fields 17 hours ago

“It has been suggested by scientists that, really to get an accurate idea of case fatality rates, you should divide by the number of cases two weeks ago, not the number of cases today,” Dr. Swaminathan said.

The death rate in the United States is about 5 percent. But according to recent data from the C.D.C., there are likely 10 times more infections than are reported. The so-called infection fatality rate — which includes all cases, not just identified cases — may be about 0.6 percent globally, Dr. Swaminathan said.

Reporting was contributed by Rachel Abrams, Livia Albeck-Ripka, Aliza Aufrichtig, Julie Bosman, Alexander Burns, Benedict Carey, Ben Casselman, Stephen Castle, Emily Cochrane, Michael Cooper, Jill Cowan, Steven Erlanger, Richard Fausset, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, Thomas Fuller, Jenny Gross, Maggie Haberman, Jack Healy, Makiko Inoue, Annie Karni, Isabella Kwai, Ernesto Londoño, Jonathan Martin, Patricia Mazzei, Mark Mazzetti, Giulia McDonnell Nieto

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Researchers Debate Infecting People With Coronavirus to Test Vaccines

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They would be quarantined and monitored closely, and if they became ill would receive the best known treatment — possibly the antiviral drug remdesivir, or convalescent plasma from people who had recovered from the illness. But so far, remdesivir’s benefits have been described as “modest,” and studies of convalescent plasma are still underway. The steroid dexamethasone lowered the death rate in one study, but is recommended only for those who become severely ill.

The article by Dr. Eyal’s group struck a chord with Josh Morrison, 34. Eight years ago, he donated a kidney to a stranger, and now runs an advocacy group for kidney donors. The opportunity to save someone else’s life meant a great deal to him, and he sees challenge trials as a chance to do it again.

“If it could lead to a speedier creation of a vaccine for the disease Covid-19, we are willing — without

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Coronavirus Was Moving Through NY in Early February

By Kristie J. Fields 2 days ago

A new study offers the first physical evidence that the coronavirus was circulating at low levels in New York City as early as the first week of February.

The city confirmed its first infection on March 1. Mathematical models have predicted that the virus was making its way through the city weeks before then, but the new report is the first to back the conjecture with testing data.

The study found that some New Yorkers had antibodies to the virus as early as the week ending Feb. 23. Given the time needed to produce antibodies, those people were most likely infected with the virus about two weeks earlier.

“You’re probably talking about very early in February,” said Florian Krammer, an immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who led the study. “It looks like there was at least low-level circulation.”

The findings were posted online Tuesday

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Coronavirus Survivors: Here’s What Recovery May Look Like

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Patients and their families should realize that fluctuations in progress are normal.

“There are going to be days where everything’s going right with your lungs, but your joints are feeling so achy that you can’t get up and do your pulmonary rehab and you have a few setbacks,” Dr. Putrino said. “Or your pulmonary care is going OK, but your cognitive fog is causing you to have anxiety and causing you to spiral, so you need to drop everything and work with your neuropsychologist intensively.”

“It really does feel like one step forward, two steps back,” he added, “and that’s OK.”

For many people, the lungs are likely to recover, often within months. But other problems can linger and some people may never make a full recovery, experts say.

One benchmark is a 2011 New England Journal of Medicine study of 109 patients in

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