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In <em>Bloodborne</em>, you battle a plague of monstrous werewolves — but who's really the monster?

Going Mad, Together: Finding Quarantine Connections In 'Bloodborne'

A five-year-old video game about coming together to battle a nightmarish plague of werewolves proves a surprising consolation during a real-world pandemic.

Medical staff, seen at a Paris hospital Thursday, treat a patient infected with COVID-19. The worldwide death toll connected with the disease topped 100,000 on Friday — a startling statistic that may have seemed unthinkable just several months ago.

COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 100,000 As Globe Grapples With Containment

Just over a week ago, the death toll was roughly half what it is now. Confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been reported in nearly every country across the world.

County public health officer Dr. Wilma Wooten gives an update on COVID-19, April 8, 2020.

San Diego County Records 4 More COVID-19 Deaths, Cases Rise To 1,628

County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced that bank employees, public transportation workers and childcare providers who serve food must now wear non-medical grade facial coverings at work.

San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher giving an update on the coronavirus on April 8, 2020.

County Total COVID-19 Deaths Reach 36, Confirmed Cases At 1,530

The county also reported deaths by racial breakdown for the first time on Wednesday: 15 white, 10 Hispanic/Latino, two Asian and the remaining nine fatalities unidentified by race or ethnicity.

Patients are brought into Wyckoff Heights Medical Center by staff wearing personal protective gear due to COVID-19 concerns on Tuesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Reports 'Largest Single-Day' Increase In Deaths

Cuomo says 731 people died on Monday. "Behind every one of those numbers is an individual, is a family, is a mother, is a father, is a brother, is a sister. So a lot of pain again today," he adds.

RaDonda Vaught appears at a court hearing with her attorney, Peter Strianse, in February. Vaught, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was charged with reckless homicide after a medication error killed a patient.

When A Nurse Is Prosecuted For A Fatal Medical Mistake, Does It Make Medicine Safer?

A nurse was charged with reckless homicide and abuse after mistakenly giving a patient a fatal dose of the wrong medicine. Patient safety experts say this may actually make hospitals less safe.

A closed sign at the San Diego Public Library Kensington on April 6, 2020, because of COVID-19.

San Diego County COVID-19 Cases Top 1,400, County To Release Racial Data

County Supervisor Nathan Fetcher announced that — responding to public input and interest — the county will begin releasing case numbers by race in its evening updates.

"While none of this is good news, the ... possible flattening of the curve is better than the increases that we have seen," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. He is seen last month following the arrival of the U.S. Naval hospital ship Comfort to New York City.

With Coronavirus Deaths 'Essentially Flat' Last Two Days, NY Gov. Sees 'Good Signs'

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there were 599 coronavirus deaths statewide since Sunday. He said it may suggest a "possible flattening of the curve" but also warned numbers were inconclusive.

Francis Collins was the head of the Human Genome Project, a publicly-funded, international effort to sequence all three billion letters of the human genome.

THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY

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This undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows Nadia, a Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York.

Tiger At NYC's Bronx Zoo Tests Positive For Coronavirus

A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the new coronavirus. It's believed to be the first infection in an animal in the U.S. and the first known in a tiger anywhere. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday that the 4-year-old Malayan tiger, and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill, are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee.

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