Actual cases may be as much as 6 to 24 times higher than reported, but we’re still a long way off from herd immunity.

The Trump administration suggests deploying the National Guard to ensure timely data sharing into a new, centralized database.

An open letter points to outbreaks that cannot be explained by large droplets and contact with surfaces alone.

Autopsies recently carried out in California show that one person died of the disease on February 6—three weeks before the nation recorded its first fatality.

Assembling the first COVID-19 test kits in the same room as coronavirus material, along with other practices that didn’t follow protocol, made the tests unusable, officials say.

Scientists at academic labs equipped to test for SARS-CoV-2 report that multiple barriers are preventing from them from operating at full capacity.

Current methods to detect infections of the novel coronavirus rely on identifying particular genetic sequences, but new assays are being developed to meet the growing demand for rapid answers.

Administration officials have given contradictory statements about how COVID-19 will affect the US, and it is not clear who is leading the infectious disease response effort, critics say.

Some US states are waiting for the CDC to send replacement enzymes necessary for carrying out SARS-CoV-2 assays.