After months of urging the public to wear masks and facial coverings to help stop infected people from spreading Covid-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated in newly released guidance that masks also protected the mask wearer from being infected.

There were more than 59,000 Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the United States on Nov. 9, the country’s highest number ever of in-patients being treated for the disease, with new infections at record levels for the sixth consecutive day.

Fishawack Health launched a pro bono campaign on World Psoriasis Day to raise awareness that psoriasis is not a contagious or unhygienic condition​ and to help lessen the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of the 125 million people living with the skin condition globally.

U.S. President Donald Trump is experiencing mild symptoms after testing positive for the coronavirus, administration officials said, as the White House and presidential election campaign scrambled to adjust to the bombshell development.

U.S. deaths from the coronavirus will reach 410,000 by the end of 2020 and deaths could soar to 3,000 per day in December, the University of Washington’s health institute forecast.

New Jersey and California took a big step toward letting businesses resume their pre-pandemic lives, by allowing restaurants to begin limited indoor dining, as coronavirus cases abated nationwide even as some new hotspots emerged.

A Biogen corporate meeting held in Boston in March that was initially connected to about 100 cases of COVID-19 could have led to a significantly higher number of infections.

A roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.

Nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from Covid-19 by Dec. 1, University of Washington health experts forecast, although they said 70,000 lives could be saved if people were scrupulous about wearing masks.

The United States shattered the country’s daily record for coronavirus infections on Thursday, reporting more than 77,000 new cases as the number of deaths in a 24-hour period rose by nearly 1,000, according to a Reuters tally.