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USC officials had hoped to bring 5,000 students back into campus housing, but a surge in L.A. County coronavirus cases has dashed those plans.

Friday’s ‘Science and Medicine’ panel featured Nicholas Christakis, Debora MacKenzie and Sonia Shah, with The Times’ Soumya Karlamangla moderating.

The seven-day rolling average for coronavirus-related deaths reported daily in the U.S. rose from about 828 on Oct. 30 to 1,047 on Friday, data show.

Bryson DeChambeau, who entered this week as a favorite to win the Masters, says he got tested for the coronavirus after feeling dizzy on the course.

The latest totals, where new cases are concentrated, testing numbers, demographcics, nursing homes and California state and county data in context compared to other states.

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Health officials are taking a new tack in the COVID-19 fight by emphasizing research that finds a mask protects the person who wears it, not just those nearby.

A coronavirus outbreak tied to a wedding reception caused 177 infections and 7 COVID-19 deaths. It shows why health officials are nervous about holiday gatherings.

Share self-care this 2020 holiday season with our health and wellness gift guide featuring body products, CBD items, games, and more.

How to appropriately respond when family, friends, coworkers or strangers ask how you’re doing, when you’re not doing so well.

Many small businesses in Southern California are in jeopardy of closing permanently. Three owners explain how they made the hard choice to close.

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Developers of Sputnik V, Russia’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, say early data suggest that it is 92% effective, but skeptics raise questions.

Despite strict quarantines and screening measures, Marine recruits spread the coronavirus to others even though hardly any of them had symptoms, a study found.

Can you have Thanksgiving during the COVID-19 pandemic? Researchers have created an interactive map that estimates the risk you’ll face in any county.

A winter surge of COVID-19 is now unavoidable, experts say, though its magnitude depends on what we do next. Hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance.

Brazil’s health regulator says it has halted clinical trials of China’s potential COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac, citing an ‘adverse, serious event.’

U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19.

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I had nothing except a functioning immune system to offer in the war against the pandemic, but I figured it ought to be put to use.

A reader whose father-in-law recently died of COVID-19 blames President Trump’s poor leadership in fighting the pandemic.

Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church wants his parishoners to suspend their own reason when he tells them to worship indoors.

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