During Friday's White House press conference, the CDC and surgeon general updated their guidance on face coverings, advising citizens wear cloth masks when outside their homes. These do not need to be medical grade masks, and people should continue to self-isolate, social distance and continually and thoroughly wash their hands.

Before the pandemic began, the systems that govern our world were brittle. Today, they are broken. When we emerge, the world will be different, and so will we.

Jan Hakon Erichsen, a mixed-media artist who's found internet fame thanks to his odd, minimalist contraptions and sculptures, finally had an accident he probably should have seen coming.

Medical device maker 3M challenged a White House order on Friday that it cease exporting N95 respiratory masks produced in the United States to markets in Canada and Latin America. In a statement, the Minnesota-based company indicated that doing so would raise humanitarian concerns, in addition to possibly limiting the number of masks available to health care providers tackling the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the US.

Several of the models tracking the spread of COVID-19 see social distancing as a necessary new normal to slow down the disease.

Either way, it's definitely unsettling.

The total number of global cases has passed one million, including more than 54,000 fatalities. Over 219,000 patients are reported to have recovered. Get the latest updates from around the world: US officials recommend that Americans use basic cloth masks in public Italy reports 766 new deaths Prince Charles opens the UK’s first emergency hospital One million families will receive free childcare in Australia Death toll in Iran exceeds 3,000 Information from WHO and health agencies Information from journalists, health experts, epidemiologists and more

Social media has been flooded with banana breads in the past couple of weeks, and hey, we aren't complaining. So grab those extra ripe bananas and make something tasty out of them!

Kushner stepped forward Thursday to offer a curious claim about the national stockpile. The next day, official language on the government's website was altered.

“STAY SAFE, HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS & WASH YOUR HANDS!!!” the landlord, Mario Salerno, wrote on signs posted at all of his 18 residential buildings in the borough.

Tom Holland showed off his Spider-Man moves this week, challenging Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds to put a shirt on while doing a handstand, to which Jake and Ryan responded in very different ways.

If current patterns hold, several communities are on track to have epidemics as serious as New York’s.

Company communications the L.A. Times reviewed confirmed that while Amazon is not paying workers for the missed shifts, the company is allowing them to take time off without penalty if they feel uncomfortable coming into work.

Wouldn't it be nice if courtside seats and field-level action were right on the other side of your front door?

The US Navy ship, which is currently docked in New York City, was only treating 20 patients as of Thursday, according to an article from The New York Times. The ship, though, wasn't put in place to treat COVID-19 patients. Still, some feel the ship is being underutilized.

Withers, known for soulful hits including Lean On Me and Ain't No Sunshine, died from heart complications, a statement from his family said.

Gloria Leon, 69, was a waitress at Nate ‘n Al’s for 41 years until the beloved Beverly Hills delicatessen suddenly closed amid the coronavirus outbreak.