Coronavirus
Are coronavirus containment efforts more damaging ‘than the direct toll of the virus itself’?
I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life ...
‘Just an overreaction’: Inside the world of coronavirus denialism
I created a faux Twitter account and set about building my own information bubble. My objective: Inhabit the world of ...
Comparing the coronavirus pandemic to past pathogenic threats: HIV, anthrax and Ebola
How does the COVID-19 pandemic compare to other infamous viral infections that have plagued us in modern times? It's a ...
Viewpoint: Lack of trust in science on GMOs, vaccines and climate change fuels coronavirus misinformation
What is driving the novel coronavirus infodemic? Fear, uncertainty and opportunistic marketing are all playing a role. But it is ...
‘We must have a plan’: Why we need an exit strategy for the coronavirus shutdown
How long is this going to last? As terrible as a pandemic would be, is averting it really worth a ...
Infographic: Where does the coronavirus fit in humanity’s long history of plagues and influenza pandemics?
Disease and illnesses have plagued humanity since the earliest days, our mortal flaw. However, it was not until the marked ...
Coronavirus and food safety: Why there’s no need to panic
Every day seems to bring dire news about coronavirus COVID-19. As this virus spreads, how concerned should we be for ...
Coronavirus has ‘snarled’ food distribution operations, threatening shortages and higher prices
Global warehouses are stuffed with frozen cuts of pork, wheels of cheese and bags of rice. But as the coronavirus ...
Some countries have done a much better job fighting the coronavirus. Here’s what worked.
With Europe and the United States locked in deadly battle with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, a number of countries ...
Here’s how long the coronavirus survives on common surfaces
A big question in the outbreak of Covid-19, which has already infected more than 110,000, is how the germ that ...
Infographic: US among world laggards in COVID-19 testing per capita, ranking 22
The available data shows that South Korea has done many more tests than other countries. This suggests that the number ...
Delving into fuzzy forecasts: How many Americans are infected with the coronavirus?
In the absence of real numbers, projections have filled the void, and it's hard to know which forecasts to trust ...
Worst-case scenario for coronavirus deaths ‘imperfect and has to rely on a number of assumptions’
On Monday [March 16], the COVID-19 Response Team at Imperial College London released a report that describes its efforts to ...
‘A new thing to worry about’: Coronavirus adds stress for people with anxiety disorders
For some of the millions of Americans with post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other forms of debilitating anxiety, coronavirus ...
Viewpoint: We’ll learn a lot from the coronavirus outbreak, but it will be ‘paid for in blood’
The coronavirus outbreak, now a pandemic spreading at an exponential rate throughout the world, is upending our routines, certainties and ...
Podcast: Fighting drug-resistant bacteria; consumers embrace CRISPR-edited food; bomb-detecting plants; and life-saving biosimilar medicines
Our inability to rapidly detect the novel coronavirus has made it difficult to properly combat COVID-19 ...
Are we overreacting to the coronavirus? Here’s why we should hope so.
From my perspective, staring down the barrel of a “once-in-a-generation pathogen,” as the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner ...
Viewpoint: GMOs responsible for the coronavirus outbreak? That’s scientifically absurd
The “passage of species” of a pathogenic organism from animal to human being, which explains the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 ...
We still have time to slow the spread: 4 things to know about the coronavirus
The experts are telling us that here in the United States, we can avoid hitting that threshold where sizable regions ...
Climate change, COVID-19 and GMOs: When should the public trust expert opinion?
In the midst of the current crisis over the coronavirus pandemic, we often face decisions about the extent to which ...
Facing the coronavirus and uncertainty: Why do some of us shrug it off, while others hoard toilet paper?
MANY people seem to be dealing with the recent coronavirus outbreak in one of two ways: by panicking or shrugging ...
Worst case scenario for coronavirus: 200,000 to 1.7 million US deaths
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last ...
If we use it correctly, artificial intelligence could help us fight the next epidemic
It was an AI that first saw it coming, or so the story goes. On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company ...
Infographic: How the coronavirus appears ‘seemingly out of nowhere’
When Emma Hodcroft read that, seemingly out of nowhere, a rash of cases of the novel coronavirus had popped up in Britain ...
Coronavirus outbreak is stressing supply chains, but America isn’t running out of food
The aisles and aisles of empty store shelves give the appearance that the United States, improbably and alarmingly, is running ...
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to stop hawking bogus coronavirus cures
New York attorney general Letitia James has ordered radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to stop claiming that InfoWars’ ...
There appears to be a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon—but it’s a GMO and the FDA would need to approve testing
A Canadian company says that it has produced a COVID-19 vaccine just 20 days after receiving the coronavirus’s genetic sequence, ...
