June 16, 2020

A new GoBankingRates.com study found that a few of the world's richest people, like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, have recovered their fortunes, growing their net worth by more than 50% during the Covid-19 pandemic from market lows in mid March.

After decades of progress in the battle against hunger, the pandemic threatens to push millions toward starvation.

Thailand's lockdown has kept the number of cases low. But the economic toll has led to a mental health crisis — and concerns about a reported increase in suicides.

In a large trial, a cheap and widely available steroid cut deaths by one-third among patients critically ill with COVID-19.

A cheap, readily available steroid drug reduced deaths by a third in patients hospitalized with Covid-19 in a large study, the first time a therapy has been shown to possibly improve the odds of survival with the condition in the sickest patients. 

Operation Warp Speed will hasten the delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine by conducting steps concurrently that normally would be conducted sequentially, senior administration officials said.

Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020 (PAHO)— The Director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, today called countries to “work together to strengthen the health response within their territories and across frontiers,” in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 cases among migrant and vulnerable populations in border areas.

virus-outbreak-health-us-news-ap-top-news-viral-questions It's hard to say exactly, because the coronavirus is still so new that scientists don't know much about long-term effects.