As coronavirus spreads across the US, epidemiologists and public health experts keep hitting one message: Stay home. Without social distancing, Covid-19 could kill nearly 2 million Americans — perhaps 17 times as many as there would be if everyone hunkers down. This is why, as of early April, the vast majority of Americans are living under shelter-at-home orders. But what ...

US employment continues to collapse, with a shocking 6.65 million new jobless claims reported yesterday. The Federal Reserve has predicted that the unemployment rate could reach 32% — considerably higher than at the depths of the Great Depression. Much of the US economy is based on local services and with people across the entire nation confined to their homes because ...

In the past week, four UK doctors have died from Covid-19; the youngest was 55. There will be more to come if the government doesn’t quickly resolve the shortages of personal protective equipment, or PPE, in hospitals and medical centers. The British Medical Association wasn’t being dramatic when it said that health workers treating Covid-19 patients face “life-threatening” shortages of ...