Tag: Coronavirus
5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic...
Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University and Eva Kassens-Noor, Michigan State University
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the...
Could China’s strategic pork reserve be a model for the US?
David L. Ortega, Michigan State University
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, we became accustomed to face-masked shoppers, social distancing and one-way aisles at...
How to be as safe as possible in your house of...
Claudia Finkelstein, Michigan State University
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released what it calls “general considerations” on safe actions for reopening houses...
The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of...
Philip Gable, University of Delaware
Think back to life before stay-at-home orders. Does it feel like just yesterday? Or does it seem like ages ago...
Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the...
Susan Wade, Keene State College
As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt...
A few superspreaders transmit the majority of coronavirus cases
Elizabeth McGraw, Pennsylvania State University
The coronavirus has traveled the globe, infecting one person at a time. Some sick people might not spread the virus...
How coronavirus contact tracing works in a state Dr. Fauci praised...
Jenny Meredith, University of South Carolina
After weeks of keeping people home to “flatten the curve,” restrictions on U.S. businesses are loosening and the coronavirus...
Americans’ deepening financial stress will make the coronavirus a lot harder...
David Salkever, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Preventing deaths from COVID-19 depends on people who get it seeking treatment – which also allows authorities to...
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...
