Tag: Coronavirus
Crisis communication researcher shares 5 key principles that officials should use...
Matthew Seeger, Wayne State University
Infectious disease outbreaks have killed more people than hurricanes, wildfires or earthquakes. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe...
Predicting the coronavirus outbreak: How AI connects the dots to warn...
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Canadian artificial intelligence firm BlueDot has been in the news in recent weeks for warning about the new...
How can we prepare for the coronavirus? 3 questions answered
Aubree Gordon, University of Michigan
Editor’s note: Public health officials in the U.S. warned that the coronavirus, which has in large part spared the U.S.,...
What are viruses anyway, and why do they make us so...
Marilyn J. Roossinck, Pennsylvania State University
Editor’s Note: You may sometimes have felt like you “have come down with a virus,” meaning that you became...
Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens...
Richard Bowen, Colorado State University and Alan Rudolph, Colorado State University
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now...
US workplaces are nowhere near ready to contain a coronavirus outbreak
Karen Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The new coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe since its discovery late last year in China. It has...
What is a super spreader? An infectious disease expert explains
Elizabeth McGraw, Pennsylvania State University
As the emerging Wuhan coronavirus outbreak dominates the daily news, you might be wondering just how the pathogen is working...
When will there be a coronavirus vaccine? 5 questions answered
Aubree Gordon, University of Michigan and Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Editor’s note: The coronavirus that started in Wuhan has sickened...
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...
