A surge in demand for tests is overwhelming lab-services companies, creating new backlogs and delays.   

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

The discovery would push back the pre-history of the emoticon by (at least) 200 years.

Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us.

On the power of Gil Scott-Heron's poem about the space race and how it anchored the flight to the heavens, pulling it out of the abstract

The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.

The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.

Virginia and possibly other states are combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This keeps Americans from understanding the pandemic.

Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.

The proportion of coronavirus tests with positive results could be a window into just how bad the U.S. outbreak is.