Tag: Coronavirus
Business liability shield is holding up another coronavirus bailout – a...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Senate Republicans’ push to grant companies sweeping immunity from civil liability for failure to adequately protect workers and customers...
Steroids cut COVID-19 death rates, but not for everyone – here’s...
Bryan McVerry, University of Pittsburgh
New studies show that treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with inexpensive steroids can cut their risk of dying from the...
Why COVID-19 vaccines need to prioritize ‘superspreaders’
Dana Goldman, University of Southern California; David Conti, University of Southern California, and Matthew E. Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines...
What the CDC eviction ban means for tenants and landlords: 6...
Katy Ramsey Mason, University of Memphis
Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order on Sept. 1 banning evictions of people...
Why Americans are buying more guns than ever
Aimee Huff, Oregon State University and Michelle Barnhart, Oregon State University
Americans have been on a record gun-buying spree in recent months.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic...
Kids are bigger coronavirus spreaders than many doctors realized – here’s...
Phyllis Sharps, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Lucine Francis, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
The first U.S. schools have reopened with in-person...
Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time
Matthew Redmond, Stanford University
Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms.
She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired...
Voters aren’t the only ones who dread slow mail – struggling...
Ednilson Bernardes, West Virginia University
Thousands of baby chicks shipped to small poultry farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived at their destinations dead...
EXPLORING NATURE
What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus a Chinese scientist pleaded guilty...
Tom W. Allen, Mississippi State University
A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention...
