In this photograph taken from behind a window, doctors work on a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit of San Matteo Hospital, in Pavia, northern Italy, Thursday, March 26, 2020. The San Matteo hospital is where Patient 1, a 38-year-old Unilever worker named Mattia, was kept since he tested positive for Covid-19 on Feb. 21 and opened Italys health care crisis. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adu…
March 26, 2020
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March 26, 2020 6:17 p.m.
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
The number of people around the world who have contracted the coronavirus has surged past 500,000, and the United States tops the list, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.