The U.S. Senate passed an $8.3 billion funding bill to help state and local governments combat the fast spreading coronavirus.

Most Americans say they are concerned that there will be a major outbreak of the coronavirus in the U.S. (55%) and that it will negatively affect the U.S. economy (57%), the latest KFF tracking poll finds. 

A new Global Health Security Index suggests that not a single country in the world is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.