FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization For 1st Coronavirus Antigen Test The agency announced approval for the diagnostic method on Saturday. Cheaper and easier to administer than genetic tests for the virus, it could potentially expand to daily testing of millions. Jason Slotkin
Public Health Experts Say Many States Are Opening Too Soon To Do So Safely By Monday, at least 31 states will be open or partially open, often in opposition to guidelines from scientists. President Trump has been pushing for the country to get back to work. Leila Fadel
Covid-19, tuberculosis, meningitis — it's all business as usual for this nurse of 50 years Voices of the Pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak. Kristin Leong
What Happened Today: Health Care System Crumbles, Testing Questions Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, answers questions about access to testing for COVID-19, false-negative results and the challenges of mass testing.
Coronavirus FAQs: Do Temperature Screenings Help? Can Mosquitoes Spread It? And as summer nears, the question must be asked: Is it risky from a COVID-19 standpoint to go in a swimming pool? Laurel Wamsley
More Census Workers To Return To Rural Areas In 9 States To Leave Forms The Census Bureau says it plans to continue its relaunch of limited 2020 census operations on May 13, when the next round of workers is set to resume hand-delivering paper forms in rural communities. Hansi Lo Wang
Seen 'Plandemic'? We Take A Close Look At The Viral Conspiracy Video's Claims The video has been viewed millions of times on YouTube at links that are replaced as quickly as the video-sharing service can remove them for violating its policy against "COVID-19 misinformation." Scott Neuman
Google Says Most Employees Will Likely Work Remotely Through End of Year The tech giant announced it is extending its previous work-from-home plans for most of its staff and will begin reopening offices this summer. Jason Slotkin
Coronavirus Update: The U.S. Health Care Industry Is Challenged By The Pandemic The health care sector has cut 1.4 million jobs in April. And as COVID-19 has consumed health care resources, other essential routine procedures — like screenings for strokes — have gone down. Nell Greenfieldboyce
Some Questions On The Future Of The Coronavirus Vaccine, Answered Scientists work tirelessly to find a coronavirus vaccine. But there are some questions to answer: How soon a viable vaccine would be developed? Would billions of people worldwide be able to to get it? Joe Palca