Tag: Pandemic

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

  As grim as things are with the pandemic raging in the US and the mounting death toll, there are many reasons to be optimistic there will be

  Reports describe a Hong Kong man who was reinfected with the coronavirus after returning from Europe. Does that mean he wasn’t immune after the first infection?

  How cities across the globe are going back to coronavirus restrictions

Letter from New Delhi

  An epidemiologist explains

  Is it possible that people who recover from COVID-19 will be plagued with long term side effects from the infection? An infectious disease physician reviews the evidence