Tag: Pandemic

Diaspora

By Nita Chicooree-Mercier

Encounter

  Shoring up surveillance and response systems and learning lessons from how the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded will help the world be ready the next time around

  By Nic Cheeseman & Rebecca Gordon

  Our lives consist of a complex and dense web of interactions that ultimately make physical and social distancing attempts impossible. And this has always been the case

The top scientific breakthrough for 2020 was understanding SARS-CoV-2 and how it causes COVID-19 – and then developing multiple vaccines

We find low taxes on the rich bring economies little benefit. This suggests there is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair

  If supplies of COVID-19 vaccine are initially limited, who should be vaccinated first? A mathematical model shows when and why it’s best to start with the young,

  I live in a democracy. But as Thanksgiving approaches, I find myself longing for the type of freedom I am seeing in China

  Covid-19 vaccines: How Pfizer’s and Moderna’s 95% effective mRNA shots work

  Many people who exercise or engage in yoga also receive the benefits of inhaling through the nose instead of the mouth

  As a zoonotic virus, COVID-19 is itself a symptom of human-influenced climate change. It is also indicative of the humanitarian impact of future environmental crises

History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

  The gap between predictions of COVID-19 deaths in Africa and what has actually happened is staggering