Tag: COVID-19
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...
New Jersey’s small, networked dairy farms are a model for a...
Andrew Carlson, Princeton University; Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton University, and Simon Levin, Princeton University
Cow’s milk is a major part of many Americans’ diets because it...
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...
George Washington would have so worn a mask
Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino
The genre “What would X do?” – where X stands for a noted figure in history, say Jesus or Dolly...
Antibody injections could fight COVID-19 infections – an infectious disease expert...
Dimiter Stanchev Dimitrov, University of Pittsburgh
Antibodies are part of us – literally.
We have billions of them in our bodies with a combined weight of...
Everyday ethics: Should I be taking unemployment insurance?
Lee McIntyre, Boston University
A lot of people are facing ethical decisions about their daily life as a result of the coronavirus. Ethicist Lee McIntyre...
Long before face masks, Islamic healers tried to ward off disease...
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
Just as many now don face masks and do breathing exercises to protect against COVID-19 – despite debate around the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
