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Nurses Are Facing Coronavirus Without Enough Protective Gear

In many places, a shortage of personal protective equipment means that that nurses must reuse masks or improvise gear. Some of them are worried.

Kroger advertises it's hiring on a billboard in Jackson, Miss., on Monday.

From Grocery Stores To Pizza Delivery, Some Companies Are On A Hiring Spree

Even as millions of Americans are losing jobs in restaurants, hotels and airlines, a few industries are adding thousands of workers. They include pharmacies, online retail and delivery services.

Automaker Retools With Health Supply Companies To Make Masks, Ventilators

Ford, 3M and GE Healthcare join forces to ramp up production of personal protection equipment and ventilators,

The Coronavirus Pandemic Hurts Some Industries, Benefits Others

At a time when millions of Americans are losing jobs at eat-in restaurants, hotels and airlines, a few industries are on a hiring spree. Those jobs are in retail, health care and food delivery.

Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes in Madrid found some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people who authorities suspect died from the coronavirus.

Spanish Military Finds Dead Bodies And Seniors 'Completely Abandoned' In Care Homes

The Spanish military found residents of some care homes "completely abandoned" and "dead in their beds," Spain's defense minister announced Monday. Spain has more than 39,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using supercomputers to calculate which drugs may help in the fight against the coronavirus.

Supercomputers Recruited To Hunt For Clues To A COVID-19 Treatment

Scientists hope a machine can do what a person can't: quickly analyze every physical and chemical aspect of the coronavirus and sift through the world's drugs for subtle clues that might prove useful.

Anti-Abortion Rights Groups Ask HHS To Urge End To Abortion During Pandemic

Groups opposed to abortion rights have signed a letter asking federal health officials to urge abortion providers to "cease operations" in an effort to preserve medical equipment.

Coronavirus testing capacity has begun to expand, with drive-through testing starting up in many places. But experts warn we still need to vastly expand testing to control the outbreak.

To End The Coronavirus Crisis We Need Widespread Testing, Experts Say

The Trump administration says not everyone needs a test, but experts say a strategy of broad testing and isolating the sick is our best way to solve this crisis.

Pu Ying Huang (left) and Dylan Baddour walk along an empty street in Cajamarca, Peru, on March 18, while they were moving from a small hotel room to an Airbnb to ride out the country's 15-day lockdown.

Opinion: I'm An American Stuck In Peru — Glad To Be On Lockdown To Avoid COVID-19

Journalist Dylan Baddour is among the thousands of Americans in Peru waiting to return to the United States during the coronavirus outbreak.

Wuhan's Hubei province will begin to emerge from a two-month quarantine this week, as health officials say the region has seen a sharp drop in new coronavirus cases.

China's Wuhan Prepares To Emerge From Lockdown As New Cases Dwindle

"Apart from Wuhan, the other places in Hubei have registered 19 consecutive days with no confirmed cases," provincial officials said on Tuesday.

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