The state is combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This threatens to confound America’s understanding of the pandemic.

The undercount is undercutting calls for social distancing.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests there were 4,577 cases where doctors mentioned coronavirus or COVID-19 as a possible or probable cause of death, more...

The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.

Increasing transparency by Russian officials shows that 233% more coronavirus-positive patients died in two regions than reported in the total count.

When a group of villagers in the Ecuadorean fishing community of El Real came down with coughs and fevers in early April, nobody was sure if they had the coronavirus - and no health workers were...

Like many people around the world, Mexican funeral home owner Salvador Ascencio did not believe at first the coronavirus outbreak was going to be a big deal.

The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas,...

The main coronavirus treatment centre in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths in just over two weeks, the medical charity running the site said on Thursday, more than double the toll...

Expanding coronavirus testing is one of the most important tasks public health officials are tackling right now. But questions over accuracy of the two main types of tests have rightly caused concern.

Leaked data from the Chinese military, which has led the country's coronavirus response, provides previously unreported detail on Chinese coronavirus cases.

Why some people who likely died from COVID-19 aren’t included in the final numbers.

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — As the white van approached Perfect Love Street, one by one chatting neighbors fell silent, covered their mouths and noses and scattered. Men in full body suits carried...

Years of neglect have hobbled many Mexican hospitals. Now, as the pandemic strikes, some patients are dying from neglect or from mistakes that are easily prevented, doctors and nurses say.

A random sampling of thousands found that one in 10 had antibodies for the coronavirus, an alarming glimpse at what could be runaway transmission.

An examination of excess deaths in every state suggests the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic was far more deadly than government tallies of covid-19 deaths indicate.

Norman "Ned" Sharpless, the director of the National Cancer Institute, warned that pandemic-related delays in cancer screenings, diagnoses and treatments will result in thousands of deaths that...

Racial disparities — and the limitations of data — are visible if you look closely at the red and black screens.

Thousands of deaths may have resulted from people’s fears of seeking care in hospital overwhelmed by the pandemic, experts say.

Russia boasts of a low mortality rate. But in Dagestan, pneumonia and other causes were not part of pandemic totals.