Tag: COVID-19

A visualization of terms related to various health issues. Many Covid-19 patients have reported a vastly different set of symptoms. | Zac Freeland/Vox; Getty Images Symptoms of the novel coronavirus can vary a lot, if an infected person experiences them at all. What are the signs you have been infected with the coronavirus? That’s a surprisingly tricky question to answer, and it’s hampering the fight against the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines in late April to include a new loss of taste or smell as symptoms of Covid-19, as well as signs such as chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, sore throat, and headache. That’s in addition to fever, cough, and shortness of breath, considered to be more common. Some patie...

Cars wait in a queue to receive food assistance provided by the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida in Orlando on May 7. | Paul Hennessy/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media/Getty Images Food banks and SNAP are overwhelmed right now. The images of thousands of cars, lined up bumper-to-bumper on otherwise-empty freeways, capture the shocking scale of the nation’s current hunger crisis. In San Antonio, Texas, 10,000 people waited for hours to receive meal boxes from a regional food bank in April. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hundreds of families have been showing up for weekly food pick-ups at the PPG Paints Arena. And in Sunrise, Florida, cars stretched for nearly two miles, while people waited at a Feeding South Florida food bank site. The demand at food banks across the countr...