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A man wearing a face mask for fear of the coronavirus, walks past a homeless person near a closed shopping mall in Jerusalem on March 23, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
For Israel’s homeless, shelters become a haven from pandemic
By Sam Sokol
Experts say those living on the streets are more vulnerable to COVID-19; activists and government officials step up assistance
Invoking Jewish experience, deputy CDC head says fear the virus, not the foreign
By Rich Tenorio
Coronavirus explained: 22 questions with epidemiologist guiding Israeli response
By Simona Weinglass
Medical team members at the Barzilay hospital, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, wear protective gear as they handle a coronavirus test sample on March 29, 2020. (Flash90)
March 31, 2020, 3:43 pm
New research shows danger posed by coronavirus to people in their 40s and 50s
British study contends that 4% of infected people in their forties require hospitalization, and double that among those in their fifties
By TOI staff and Agencies
Amnon Shashua, CTO, co-founder and chairman of Mobileye. May 27, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
March 31, 2020, 1:47 pm
High-tech mogul to present pandemic exit strategy to Knesset committee
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua and computer scientist Shai Shalev-Shwartz claim their solution can wrap up the current public health crisis in a matter of months
By Sam Sokol
A medical staffer at the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome, March 30, 2020. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
March 31, 2020, 11:44 am
Europe’s hospitals among the best but can’t handle pandemic
World Health Organization scolds advanced countries for ‘squandering’ opportunity to implement wider testing and stronger surveillance months ago
By Maria Cheng
Poriya Hospital in Tiberias. (Courtesy)
March 31, 2020, 11:34 am
Coronavirus patient, 34, jumps out of hospital window
Mental health authorities report a spike in tension and stress as Israelis across the country shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic
By TOI staff
Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, December 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)
March 31, 2020, 9:29 am
NY congresswoman presumed to have COVID-19, attended Friday House session
Nydia Velázquez, whose district includes the Jewish community on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, announces illness on Twitter, says she is self-isolating
By Agencies and TOI staff
This March 23, 2020, file photo shows medical supplies and a stretcher displayed before a news conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Health care workers are dreading the prospect of deciding which patients would get a ventilator that could save their lives. (John Minchillo, Fle/AP)
March 31, 2020, 7:56 am
How would overwhelmed US hospitals decide who to treat first?
Doctors, ethicists fear they may have to decide who gets access to a life-saving ventilator — and who doesn’t
By Candice Choi, Lori Hinnant and Nicole Winfield
Illustrative: A mikveh immersion for the purpose of conversion to Judaism (Mayyim Hayyim/Tom Kates via JTA)
March 31, 2020, 6:10 am
Women’s ritual baths remain open during pandemic, but fail to wash away fears
While officials say properly maintained mikvehs are perfectly safe, women’s advocates debate whether immersion is recommended at this time
By Sam Sokol
Rear Adm. Anne Schuchat, director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
March 30, 2020, 6:12 am
Invoking Jewish experience, deputy CDC head says fear the virus, not the foreign
Dr. Anne Schuchat says Jews know what it’s like to be stigmatized, as she pushes for tight-knit yet socially distant response to COVID-19, predicting that battle may take years
By Rich Tenorio
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a briefing on coronavirus in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, March 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
March 29, 2020, 6:52 pm
US coronavirus deaths likely to be ‘between 100,000 and 200,000,’ Fauci says
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases also says millions of Americans will be infected by the virus
By Zeke Miller
A man wearing a face mask for fear of the coronavirus, walks past a homeless person near a closed shopping mall in Jerusalem on March 23, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 29, 2020, 5:31 am
For Israel’s homeless, shelters become a haven from pandemic
Experts say those living on the streets are more vulnerable to COVID-19; activists and government officials step up assistance
By Sam Sokol
In this photo taken March 24, 2020, Mia Grace, right, holds a package of toilet paper as she and her dog Breezy observe social distancing chalk marks on the sidewalk while waiting to get in to The Reef Capitol Hill, a marijuana store in Seattle, which was limiting the number of people in the store at one time to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
March 29, 2020, 3:16 am
What’s essential? In France: pastry, wine. In US: golf, guns and marijuana
Authorities across the world are determining what shops and services can remain open with varying results
By ANDREW SELSKY
A Russian Army specialist walks outside the Honegger nursing home where 35 people have died so far from coronavirus in Albino, Italy, on March 28, 2020, amid the spread of the COVID-19 (new coronavirus) pandemic. (Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)
March 29, 2020, 12:41 am
Global coronavirus death toll passes 30,000, two-thirds in Europe
Italy sees fatalities spike again after slowdown; Spain grapples with overwhelmed morgues, but sees signs outbreak nearing its peak
By AFP
Young men study in a yeshiva open in violation of Health Ministry guidelines. March 18, 2020. (Sam Sokol)
March 25, 2020, 6:06 am
Critics warn rabbinate’s call for day of public prayer puts thousands at risk
Despite ongoing concern over lack of social distancing among ultra-Orthodox, police have no plans to shutter yeshivas defying closure order
By Sam Sokol
Muslim pilgrims wear masks at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on February 28, 2020. (Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP)
March 22, 2020, 11:17 pm
Virus knows no borders, but Israel and Arab world not cooperating to fight it
Jerusalem is not coordinating its emergency response with other Middle East countries; a planned call by Netanyahu with Middle East leaders never took place
By Raphael Ahren
In this photo provided by Comunidad de Madrid, beds for COVID-19 patients are placed at IFEMA convention center in Madrid, Spain on March 21, 2020. (Comunidad de Madrid via AP)
March 22, 2020, 4:36 pm
Virus death tolls soar in US, Italy, Iran as global lockdown intensifies
US government ‘literally scouring the globe looking for medical supplies’; over 10% of Spain’s health workers confirmed infected with virus
By Colleen Barry and Frank Jordans
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