Tag: Pandemic
Oleandrin is a deadly plant poison, not a COVID-19 cure
Cassandra Quave, Emory University
With COVID-19 cases and deaths rising in the U.S. and globally, identifying new therapies to prevent and combat the virus is...
Black and Latino essential workers experience greater safety concerns than their...
Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Clare Hammonds, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Research Brief is a...
Movie theaters are on life support – how will the film...
Matthew Jordan, Pennsylvania State University
Since the start of the pandemic, the film industry has been in free fall.
As deaths have continued to climb, so...
Wearable fitness devices deliver early warning of possible COVID-19 infection
Albert H. Titus, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The difficulty many people have getting tested for SARS-CoV-2 and delays in receiving...
One 19th-century artist’s effort to grapple with tuberculosis resonates during COVID-19
Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College
Like everyone else, artists have been challenged by new conditions and routines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have...
Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic...
Les Kaufman, Boston University
In a recent journal article, a team of biologists, medical scientists, environmental scientists and conservationists proposed a number of measures to...
While coronavirus cases spike in the South, the Northeast seems to...
Taison Bell, University of Virginia
“Hospital Capacity Crosses Tipping Point in U.S. Coronavirus Hot Spots” – Wall Street Journal
This is a headline I hoped to...
What US medical supply chain can learn from the fashion industry
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University
The shortage of crucial medical supplies, especially personal protective equipment, has crippled the United States’ ability to quell the COVID-19...
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...
