Tag: Coronavirus

History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

All health systems are a non-stop work in progress. We just have to go on improving across the system, from the bureaucratese to the technical. In other words,

  The pandemic and political turmoil have left many people feeling anxious, angry and despairing. Being open to joy might bring some respite

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

Editorial

  There are both positives and negatives that might flow from the president’s diagnosis. Much will depend on how sick he becomes, and how he chooses to talk

  What makes us comply with the rules? Behavioural economics holds some clues for how to enforce coronavirus measures

  An unprecedented level of research has gone into understanding the novel coronavirus. Here’s what we still don’t know Raphael Alves/EPA The pandemic has reached a grim milestone:

The COVID-19 vaccine is in the final stages of testing – meaning we should know whether it’s effective before the end of the year

  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?

Symposium on Covid-19

  By Kieran Michael Conroy

Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behaviour – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s

  Unconditional emergency assistance for the world’s poorest could be funded by temporarily freezing debt repayments