Health & Safety

Together Inc. food bank workers distribute food at a drive-through location in Omaha, Neb., last week. Disruptions in the agricultural supply chain caused by the coronavirus pandemic are making it difficult for food banks.

Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places

3:31pm April 03, 2020

by Dan Charles

Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places. Farmers are dumping milk and vegetables that they can't sell.

People wait in their vehicles for coronavirus testing at Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., last month.

Health & Safety

Coronavirus Testing Backlogs Continue As Laboratories Struggle To Keep Up With Demand

3:27pm April 03, 2020

by Rob Stein

One big commercial testing lab revealed a backlog of at least 115,000 tests, illustrating the scope of the coronavirus testing problems.

A temporary field hospital set up at IFEMA Convention Center in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday. Spain is one of the countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.

Spain Briefly Passes Italy In COVID-19 Cases But Officials See Growth Rate Slowing

2:59pm April 03, 2020

by Lucía Benavides

Despite the increase, Spain's figures suggest the rate of new infections has begun to slow, according to a spokeswoman for the government's health emergency center.

After a period of quarantine at home separated from her children, Tiffany Pinckney recovered from COVID-19. She has become one of the country's first volunteer donors of plasma as part of an experiment to treat COVID-19 patients.

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FDA Supports Effort To Develop COVID Treatment From Plasma Of Recovered Patients

2:38pm April 03, 2020

by Joe Palca

The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will take charge of a program that includes the Mayo Clinic and the American Red Cross with funds from the federal government.

Workers in Dhaka sew protective suits at a garment factory during Bangladesh's lockdown.

1 Million Bangladeshi Garment Workers Lose Jobs Amid COVID-19 Economic Fallout

2:30pm April 03, 2020

by Lauren Frayer

"Please don't give up on us," the president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association said in a YouTube plea addressed to global buyers. "Kindly do not let go of our hands."

Men load a coffin onto a pickup truck in front of General del Guasmo Sur Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The port city is the most affected by COVID-19 in the country. Corpses lie in apartments for days and morgues are overcrowded. The city administration

Corpses Lie For Days As Ecuador Struggles To Keep Up With COVID-19 Deaths

2:26pm April 03, 2020

by John Otis

The epicenter of the country's outbreak is the port city of Guayaquil, where cadavers are lying in the streets and in homes.

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Volunteer Earl Banks guides a load of food to a waiting van at a Denver branch of the Volunteers of America.

Coronavirus Drives Away Volunteers Just As They're Needed Most

1:47pm April 03, 2020

by Pam Fessler

Many food banks and homeless shelters depend on volunteers. But fewer are showing up at a time when the need for these services is skyrocketing.

A ventilator and other hospital equipment is seen in an emergency field hospital to aid in the coronavirus pandemic in Central Park in New York City on Tuesday.

Ventilator Shortages Loom As States Ponder Rules For Rationing

1:02pm April 03, 2020

Many states are projected to have excessive demand for ventilator machines in the coming weeks, but no state government has formally asked hospitals to prepare for difficult and complex crisis triage.

Medical workers in protective clothing move a body to a refrigerated overflow morgue outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn on Thursday.

Cuomo Says New York Has Seen 'Highest Single Increase' In Deaths From Coronavirus

12:50pm April 03, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

The state had 562 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours. In a bit of "good news," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 1,452 coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospitals in the past day.

A pair of men wearing masks — but neglecting social distancing guidelines — wait for public transportation in Peru's capital, Lima. The country recently urged men and women to leave their homes only on separate days, in an attempt to slow the spread o

Peru, Panama Limit Movement By Gender In Bid To Slow The Coronavirus

12:38pm April 03, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The rules unveiled this week allow men and women to leave their homes only on separate days of the week. "We have to get fewer people on the streets every day," said Peru's president, Martín Vizcarra.