Tag: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
The US was not prepared for a pandemic – free market...
Elanah Uretsky, Brandeis University
It’s unclear when the pandemic will come to an end. What may be an even...
What doctors know about lingering symptoms of coronavirus
William Petri, University of Virginia
With over 2 million cases in the U.S. since the coronavirus pandemic began in late December, there are now many...
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...
Study shows pangolins may have passed new coronavirus from bats to...
Yang Zhang, University of Michigan; Chengxin Zhang, University of Michigan, and Wei Zheng, University of Michigan
Pangolins, not snakes, may be the missing link for...
Clear, consistent health messaging critical to stemming epidemics and limiting coronavirus...
Thespina (Nina) Yamanis, American University
While the deadly coronavirus spreads rapidly in the United States, United Kingdom, France and beyond, several countries in Asia and...
How big will the coronavirus epidemic be? An epidemiologist updates his...
Maciej F. Boni, Pennsylvania State University
The Harvard historian Jill Lepore recounted recently in The New Yorker magazine that when democracies sink into crisis, the...
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...
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...
