Todd C. Frankel

Looting and destruction has followed in the wake of protests across the country, just as many retailers and restaurants were reopening from the pandemic.

There's a statistic that puts a price dollar amount on a human life. The government has used it for decades to calculate the cost-benefit of regulations. But it's not using it its response to the pandemic.

States have different definitions of what body temperature should keep workers home, highlighting the lack of national strategy for dealing with covid-19.

Danville, Pa., is a small town that’s home to Geisinger Medical Center — a huge hospital that's putting nearly everyone on the coronavirus’s front lines

In a wave of lawsuits, companies battered by covid-19 but excluded from aid seek small-business funds.

Health-care spending fell 18 percent to start the year as hospitals slashed surgeries and staff to deal with covid-19.

Red tape and communication problems are slowing down donations of unused masks and gear from federal agencies. “Everyone is having the same problem,” one official said.

Lessons learned from the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak led insurance companies to exclude coverage for many of the losses suffered today by businesses.

It was up to a small band of local health officials to protect Grant County, W.V., where 90 percent of voters supported President Trump, even if many remained unconvinced they needed saving.

The rule of thumb among doctors and journalists during the Ebola outbreak when I was there was to act as if everyone in public was contagious with the virus. Because you didn’t know. That applies to the coronavirus pandemic, too.