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Nurses and health care workers light candles outside Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital on Friday as they mourn and remember their colleagues who died during the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Reports Highest Daily Death Toll Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

About 2,100 people died on Friday — the highest daily death toll in the United States so far. Confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been reported in nearly every country around the world.

As more and more workers lose jobs, many states say they are seeing the trust funds used to pay unemployment benefits begin to run low.

Deluge Continues: 26 Million Jobs Lost In Just 5 Weeks

The number of people forced out of work during the coronavirus lockdown keeps soaring. Last week, 4.4 million people filed for jobless benefits, boosting the total since last month to 26 million.

Birx On 'Stay-At-Home' Protests: 'Devastatingly Worrisome'

The coronavirus task force coordinator told Fox News Sunday demonstrators may inadvertently jeopardize family members. She also encouraged continued social distancing as states began to re-open.

Cows with genes from the human immune system make antibodies that may help people fight the coronavirus.

Cows Help With COVID-19 Treatment, No Bull

Cattle may turn out to be of help in the coronavirus pandemic. A South Dakota biotech company is using cows to create antibodies that could then be used for disease prevention or treatment.

Lee Health/NCH See Slight Decrease in COVID-19 Patients Over Weekend

Despite Florida’s ongoing surge in new cases of the coronavirus, the Lee Health and Naples Community Hospital healthcare systems experienced a slight reduction over the weekend in the number of COVID-19 patients being treated in their acute care hospitals. Lee Health is currently treating 335 COVID-19 positive patients, which is 18 fewer than on Friday. NCH is currently treating 121 COVID-19 positive patients, which is 11 fewer than before the weekend.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, seen here during a press briefing on Feb. 4, told CBS the World Health Organization has more work to do to get to the bottom of where the coronavirus emerged.

White House: China And WHO Need To 'Step Up' On Investigation Into Origin Of Pandemic

National security adviser Jake Sullivan says he has concerns over the data China has provided to the World Health Organization regarding the origins of the coronavirus.

President Trump, seen here in the Oval Office on Wednesday, holds up a chart showing that the United States has done more total tests than a number of peer nations.

Trump Says More Testing Makes U.S. 'Look Bad,' But Its Availability Remains A Concern

In recent days, a top Senate Republican has said the coronavirus testing the United States has done so far is "not nearly enough."

Pu Ying Huang (left) and Dylan Baddour walk along an empty street in Cajamarca, Peru, on March 18, while they were moving from a small hotel room to an Airbnb to ride out the country's 15-day lockdown.

Opinion: I'm An American Stuck In Peru — Glad To Be On Lockdown To Avoid COVID-19

Journalist Dylan Baddour is among the thousands of Americans in Peru waiting to return to the United States during the coronavirus outbreak.

New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses, And Spillovers Aren't Rare

The coronavirus outbreak in China seems like an unusual event. But scientists have found that similar viruses have been quietly jumping from bats into humans for years.

'They Know What A Pandemic Is': HIV Survivors See Similarities To AIDS Epidemic

The coronavirus pandemic feels eerily familiar to people who faced the AIDS crisis. It triggers memories of confusion over how the disease is transmitted and huge numbers of people dying quickly.

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