Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The doctor in China who risked his job to warn the world about COVID-19 was not a frontline emergency medicine or ICU doctor. Li Wenliang, MD, was an ophthalmologist, a glaucoma specialist who died after contracting the virus from an asymptomatic patient.

Local doctors realized that protection beyond masks and gowns would be key for health care workers to stay safe during critical moments of taking care of patients with coronavirus.

On March 14, the Saturday before school closed for the year, more than 400 people attended a quinceañera in rural Doniphan, Nebraska — population 829. Two of the attendees later tested positive for COVID-19. And now, 7 weeks later, Hall County, home to Doniphan, leads the state in COVID-19 incidence. It has over 1000 cases, more than double that of urban Douglas County, where Omaha is located.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Obstetrician Ana Sanchez, MD, was forced to abruptly leave a laboring patient when St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California, suspended her privileges and barred her from campus.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In the Ob/Gyn department at Main Line Health, a suburban Philadelphia hospital, rules surrounding personal protective equipment (PPE) have evolved — from minimal use to measured caution — over the past few weeks.

A social worker in New York City was home, caring for his sick son, when the hospital at which he works ordered him to report back to work. His son had COVID-19, yet his hospital told him he had to show up in person.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. At least one physician has been fired for speaking out about the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) in his hospital. Another was informed he couldn't wear a mask brought from home for fear of scaring the patients.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.

In the 1800s, there were no blue recycling bins, no sorting, no recycling trucks rumbling down the alley. Recycling as we know it didn’t exist. But people were way better at it.

Caleigh Stanier won’t be going to the Mock Trial State Championship that her team qualified for. This 17-year-old junior at Iowa City High School also won’t appear in her school musical in April. Her situation probably sounds familiar. The coronavirus pan

Current seniors at Johnson Senior High School, on St. Paul’s east side, will graduate this spring never having experienced a staple of high school life: traditional boys’ and girls’ bathrooms. In 2016, facilities staff pulled out the cinder block, gender-segregated bathrooms from 1963—the type where a kid might duck her head to identify which stalls are occupied or where a BFF is hiding.

When Ebola reached US shores in 2014, healthcare workers and experts were kicking themselves for not being ready for a major infectious disease outbreak—and promising themselves that next time, they would be. "We often talk about a panic/neglect cycle," said Eric Toner, MD, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

The call came from Dr. Corey Martin’s boss at Buffalo Hospital on an October evening five years ago: “Corey, you need to get to the hospital right now,” she said. A pediatrician friend had killed himself in the hospital chapel. The next day, on his way to perform his usual round of colonoscopies, Martin ran into a concerned medical secretary who remarked, “Oh Corey, I’m so glad you’re here today—I thought I was going to hear it was you.”

It’s a picture-perfect summer day in the woods of central Minnesota: 71 degrees, humidity around 73 percent, sunshine dappling the trees and glinting off glimpses of the Mississippi River. But as five scientists pull on white painter suits and start duct-taping the cuffs to their hiking boots, no one is certain if the conditions will be ideal enough to complete their task for the day: catching about 300 ticks, both adults and 150 nymphs.