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NEW: It's been said often and it sounds true: Small social gatherings -- people getting together with family and friends -- is driving the current surge. But is it, really?

The headlines, all of a sudden, are everywhere. UK study showed antibodies to the coronavirus decline so we're all doomed. No immunity, no vaccines, no herd immunity. People, we have

ICYMI: On Thursday, we published a story suggesting that elementary schools, especially, do not seem to be seeding clusters of infection. As all articles on this topic do, it made

NEW: President Trump has been saying his immunity makes him feel like Superman. But the treatments he got may have prevented his body from making antibodies of his own, leaving

SCOOP: The White House has decided not to trace the contacts of guests and staff members at the Sept. 26 Rose Garden celebration for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, where at

This is how President Trump often meets people: indoors, without a mask on, and talking loudly. In other words, all of the ingredients for a superspreader event. Did the president--or

BREAKING: Massive new study out of #India is the first of the scale in a low or middle income country. Key insights: shorter median hospital stay before death; kids of

On Friday, @CDCgov updated its guidance to say the coronavirus is airborne. On Monday, it went back to the previous guidance, which emphasizes droplets and distancing. What happened? 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/health/coronavirus-

NEW: All these months into the pandemic, we may have been testing the wrong way. Data from some state labs suggest up to 90% (!!) of people who get a

NEW: Hong Kong has reported the first confirmed case of reinfection to the coronavirus. Details not on Twitter (there is a manuscript!) + what it means for immunity & herd

Some people like to question whether this pandemic is really all that bad in terms of deaths. So @jeremyfaust @CarlosdelRio7 et al crunched the numbers and turns out: It’s 70%

NEW: The conversation about whether the coronavirus can be transmitted by air stalled at one crucial point: Do aerosols at a distance contain infectious virus? And it turns out, yes,