A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend […]
May 2020
Category: Pandemic
May 2020
It was 1976, and President Gerald Ford was racing to come up with a vaccine for a new strain of […]
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May 2020
Nathaniel Weixel writes in The Hill that lawmakers and public health experts are raising alarms about the widespread embrace of […]
Read More… from Alarm bells ring over controversial COVID testing
May 2020
STAT’s Sharon Begley writes that as epidemiologists attempt to scope out what Covid-19 has in store for the U.S. this summer and […]
Apr 2020
Charles Schmidt has optimistic news in Scientific American, reporting that vaccine candidates are speeding toward human trials. On January 10, […]
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Apr 2020
Clifford Marks and Trevor Pour write in The New Yorker that COVID-19 has been shown to damage multiple organ systems, […]
Apr 2020
Reid Wilson in the Hill writes that the percentage of people who die after testing positive for the coronavirus is […]
Read More… from Case fatality rates rise as coronavirus runs deadly course
Apr 2020
Franco Ordonez reports on NPR that two leading former federal health officials who served in recent Republican and Democratic administrations […]
Read More… from Ex-Officials Call For $46 Billion For Tracing, Isolating In Next Coronavirus Package
Apr 2020
Selena Simmons-Duffin reported today on National Public Radio that while states are eager to open up and get people back […]
Apr 2020
Lev Facher writes in STAT that the Trump administration on Monday unveiled a “blueprint” to increase capacity for coronavirus tests […]