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Michael J. Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, attends a news conference on the coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland, February 24, 2020. Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program, defended China on Thursday against accusations that the country has underreported cases and deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus …

Our World in Data researchers announced this week that they had stopped relying on World Health Organization data for their models. Our World in Data, an online publication based at the University of Oxford, announced on Tuesday that it had stopped relying onO World Health Organization (WHO) data for its models, citing errors and other …

Some of the nation’s largest grocery store chains are installing sneeze guards to help protect their cashiers from the coronavirus. Walmart, Albertsons, Whole Foods and other grocers say they are putting up Plexiglas shields in checkout lines to block virus-containing droplets from the nose and mouth from flying between clerks and customers. Walmart plans to …

Taiwanese health officials have accused the World Health Organization of failing to communicate the country’s warning in December regarding possible human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Financial Times reported Friday. The officials said doctors in Taiwan had learned from their colleagues in mainland China that medical staff were falling ill from the as-yet unnamed coronavirus, …

While “The View” remains one of the few daytime TV shows still broadcasting live in studio, Whoopi Goldberg co-hosted while self-quarantined at home on Wednesday as a precaution after she contracted double pneumonia last year.