Tag: COVID-19
So you think economic downturns cost lives? Our findings show they...
Kadir Atalay, University of Sydney; David Ubilava, University of Sydney; Rebecca Edwards, University of Sydney, and Stefanie Schurer, University of Sydney
Throughout the coronavirus recession...
Coronavirus relief funds could easily pay to stop the worst of...
David L. McCollum, University of Tennessee
CC BY-NDAs of late summer, governments around the world had pledged US$12.2 trillion of relief in response to the...
COVID-19 vaccines were developed in record time – but are these...
William Petri, University of Virginia
There are now two COVID-19 vaccines that, at least according to preliminary reports, appear to be 94.5% and 95% effective....
Hoarding, stockpiling, panic buying: What’s normal behavior in an abnormal time?
Carol Mathews, University of Florida
Symptoms of depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders have emerged or worsened for many during the pandemic. This is no...
How mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna work, why they’re a...
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University
As the weather cools, the number of infections of the COVID-19 pandemic are rising sharply. Hamstrung by pandemic fatigue, economic constraints...
Why we didn’t get a vaccine by Election Day – but...
William Petri, University of Virginia
A COVID-19 vaccine was not ready before the general election, as many people, including the president, had hoped. But there...
Even if you’re asymptomatic, COVID-19 can harm your heart, study shows...
Partho Sengupta, West Virginia University
COVID-19 can do some pretty scary things to the human heart. It can trigger blood clots in severe cases and...
Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids
Jerome Gessaroli, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt totalled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt...
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Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
