How COVID-19 Deaths Are Counted
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate
Human lives, human touch and direct human interactions are gone—and so is the sense that we can trust our leaders to act quickly and effectively in the face of a catastrophe
A new mathematical model predicts areas on a virus that might be especially vulnerable to disabling treatments
Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves
High-speed sequencing technology, placed strategically in urban hospitals, could flag a new pathogen before it has a chance to spread widely
Blood clots and inflammation may underlie many of these complications
Here are pandemic news highlights for the week
There is no evidence that dogs can pass the virus to people, however
President Trump pointed out yesterday that if we didn't do any testing for the virus we would have very few cases, which forces us to confront the issues posed by testing in general.
The viruses they carry spill over into humans mostly when we encroach on their territory or drag them into ours—and bats do great good as well
A physician’s suicide reminds us that the plague of COVID-19 creates deep emotional wounds in health care workers
Being immune was once a status symbol—and another way to segregate and divide humanity
A 120-nanometer virus makes face coverings de rigueur in places where they were once shunned or against the law
The disease’s unequal impacts on different segments of the population are illuminating long-standing structural injustices
Different species are helping answer different questions about COVID-19 in humans in order to develop vaccines and treatments
Studies of social networks show that opposition to vaccines is small but far-reaching—and growing
The ways governments choose to bolster foundering economies could impact greenhouse gas emissions
We shouldn’t risk our genetic privacy to find it
According to terror management theory, people can have surprising reactions
Platforms that enable nuanced forms of crowdsourcing are opening a new era in epidemiological forecasting
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