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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Countries across the world, including the U.S., are in various phases of reopening, but concerns of a so-called "second wave" of the coronavirus pandemic have cropped up. A new study suggests that intermittent lockdowns followed by periods of easing could be an "effective strategy…

May 19, 2020Updated 11:38 a.m. ETThe mental health toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only beginning to show itself, and it is too early to predict the scale of the impact.The coronavirus pandemic is an altogether different kind of cataclysm — an ongoing, wavelike, poorly understood threat that seems to be both everywhere and nowhere,…

Editor's note: There's been speculation on the media and via Twitter that DNA fragments of the now-defunct 1918 flu pathogen could be preserved under the permafrost and might pose a potential threat to humans if the warming Earth continues to melt layers of frozen soil. A few years ago, we investigated that question: Could this…

Coronavirus, just let me sleep, please! Ute Grabowsky/Photothek via Getty Images For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. My first coronavirus dream took me to Seattle's Sea-Tac airport. Not only was I about to board a plane at a time when travel was practically shut down, but…

By Adam Vaughan A tractor sowing rice in a water-submerged plantation in Lombardy, ItalyMIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images The covid-19 pandemic’s impact on hunger around the world could be worse than the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 when food prices spiked calamitously, a leading food security expert warns. Unlike the scarcity of food during…