***Oh boy:** As the global death toll from an alarming new coronavirus surged this week, promoters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were urging their fans to ward off the illness by purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach. MORE
A team of biostatisticians and infectious disease researchers predict the Wuhan 2019n-CoV outbreak will get much worse. (This paper is not yet published; it is a preprint made publicly available for review and commentary by MORE
SouthChinaMorningPost The central Chinese city of Wuhan and seven other cities in Hubei province went into lockdown to help contain the spread of a deadly virus on Thursday, a day before the World Health Organisation (WHO) MORE
The first case of an infection with a new coronavirus has been discovered in the United States. A man from Washington state returned home after a trip to Wuhan, China, on Jan. 15, sought medical MORE