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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here.Latin America has become the new epicenter of the global coronavirus outbreak, as the region has seen more than 2.4 million cases and more than 143,000 deaths, a health official announced Tuesday. Carissa F. Etienne, director of the Pan American…

Eric Schulze, MD, PhD is the chief executive officer of Lifetrack Medical Systems (LMS), a medical software and health tech company. Madhu Vijayan is the president of Calibrated Healthcare Network, a health-care information services company that focuses on th…

The coronavirus is spreading from America’s biggest cities to its suburbs, and has begun encroaching on the nation’s rural regions. The virus is believed to have infected millions of citizens and has killed more than 34,000. Yet President Donald Trump this past week proposed guidelines for reopening the economy and suggested that a swath of…

an analysis by William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Even slightly smaller metro areas, like Houston, Washington, D.C., and Miami grew more slowly than before. In all, growth in the country’s major metropolitan areas fell by nearly half over the course of the past decade, Mr. Frey found.Now, as local leaders contemplate how…

we underestimate the virus, it will find us.More Americans may die than the White House admits.ImageRefrigerated trucks were used as mobile morgues on Randall’s Island in New York.Credit...Misha Friedman for The New York TimesCovid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, is arguably the leading cause of death in the United States right now. The virus…