As coronavirus cases continue to climb in more than 20 states, raising fears of a second wave of hospitalizations and deaths, some politicians have taken to waving away the worrisome news with a ...

Outbreaks have surged in the South and West in the United States. As COVID-19 test positivity rates resurged in recent weeks, private test providers have made efforts to sound the alarm that the ...

To get out of this pandemic, we need fast, easy coronavirus testing that’s accessible to everyone. From the way people often talk, you might think we need a technological breakthrough to achieve this.

"Testing has been the Achilles' heel of our outbreak response," expert says. If you can’t cure a contagious disease, the next best thing, according to the experts, is to find it and identify those who ...

(TNS) — As the coronavirus dug into the Bay Area’s low-income Latino and Black neighborhoods this spring, doctors and community leaders pleaded for more testing sites. But even as access to testing ...

As more Americans receive coronavirus vaccines and the number of new confirmed cases fall, health authorities across the U.S. are shutting down public coronavirus testing sites because of falling ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says asymptomatic people no longer need to get tested for the novel coronavirus, a quiet change the federal agency recently made to its online ...

Federal health officials are hoping to stretch the supplies used to test for the coronavirus by combining samples from a number of people and running a single test. Chinese health officials used that ...

This article was updated to include new information about LabCorp and Stanford Health Care’s pool testing efforts. As pandemic re-opening efforts show mixed success, across the U.S., there have been ...

It is a nightmare repeatedly playing in parents’ minds: Their child is welcomed back to their classroom, but in the excitement the kids get too close to one another, sharing germs. The children may ...

The coronavirus keeps spreading around the United States. New hot spots are emerging and heating up by the day. The death toll keeps mounting. So how can the U.S. beat back the relentless onslaught of ...

As schools reopen, many parents still can’t find a test nearby, impeding the fight against the virus. By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz Many coronavirus testing sites do not screen children. One ...