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The Red Cross in China seems like any other humanitarian group. But there is one crucial difference: it is funded and directed by the Chinese Communist Party. View original article Contributor:

With schools shuttered, the inactivity and snacking typical of summer breaks puts more students at risk of obesity and health ills. View original article Contributor:

“You have an American amount of rice,” my mother told me as news of the coronavirus intensified. “Go get the biggest bag you can find.” View original article Contributor:

As India starts loosening restrictions, a once-broad consensus among leaders on how to proceed has weakened — and many people are staying home anyway. View original article Contributor:

A call from a university chancellor set in motion a private sector effort to procure 50 million masks, gowns and swabs for American medical facilities. View original article Contributor:

The coronavirus has created a surge in demand for telemedicine of all types — including for a quietly expanding program for terminating pregnancies. View original article Contributor:

Doctors and public health officials fear the attention could boost purveyors of dangerous elixirs who push ‘miracle cures’ with no basis in science. View original article Contributor:

Compared with women, male drivers of cars and vans were involved in twice as many fatal accidents. View original article Contributor:

The drug, sarilumab, sold as Kevzara, didn’t show benefits to patients who were hospitalized but not on ventilators. The study will continue with critically ill patients. View original article Contributor:

About three million cases have been detected around the world, and the global death toll passed 200,000. The C.D.C. added six new Covid-19 symptoms. Some states gradually allowed some businesses to open, as oil prices plummeted. View original article Contributor: