The AtlanticScience America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Ed YongAs the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring. Updated at 5:28 p.m. ET on September 13, 2020. Army ants...
Herd Immunity The Right Wing Has A New Theory For Why The Pandemic Will End Soon: T Cells buzzfeednews.com - Stephanie M. Lee Right-wing commentators and Trump’s new science adviser, Scott Atlas, say new studies signal good news for ending the pandemic. Scientists say that’s …
Denmark Researchers found a new coronavirus mutation that’s capable of sparking another pandemic bgr.com - Chris Smith The government of Denmark shocked the world a few days ago when it announced it would slaughter as many as 17 million minks in the country, …
MarketWatchUnited StatesThe man who warned in 2018 that America was unprepared for a pandemic says: ‘The U.S. squandered every possible opportunity... verified_publisherMarketWatch - Quentin Fottrell The man who sounded an alarm that the U.S. was facing a pandemic, and was grossly unprepared to deal with it, has some harsh words for the …
Rolling StoneMosquitoes How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era Rolling Stone - Jeff Goodell Jennifer Jones spent most of her summer at home, as so many of us did, trying to avoid the plague. Jones, 45, lives in Tavernier, a community in the …
ForbesBusiness Why Saving The Economy Or Tackling The Pandemic Is A False Dilemma Forbes - Enrique DansAn article in Foreign Policy, “The great pause was an economic revolution” (summary), touches on an issue I’ve discussed recently: the false dichotomy between the need to restrict the spread of the pandemic...
Business InsiderMinksDenmark says it will cull 17 million mink after discovering a mutated strain of COVID-19 that officials fear could 'restart'... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Grace DeanDenmark will cull its entire mink population — up to 17 million animals — after scientists found some were carrying a mutated strand of COVID-19 that the government fears could "restart" the entire global...
Live ScienceWar Americans celebrated Thanksgiving during a pandemic before. Here's what happened. Live Science - Brandon Specktor The war was over, families were reuniting, and a deadly influenza surge was just around the corner. For the second time in a little over a century, …
GizmodoPandemics The Pandemic Is Taking a Heavy Toll on Our Mental Health, Study Finds verified_publisherGizmodo - Ed Cara A new study out Wednesday is the latest to show that the covid-19 pandemic is taking a heavy toll on Americans’ mental health. The research found …
Mutations Countries are now trying to contain a coronavirus mutation that could spark another pandemic bgr.com - Chris Smith The Danish government announced earlier this week plans to cull up to 17 million minks from its fur farms and isolate one region of the country. …
The Washington PostFDA FDA authorizes the first coronavirus vaccine, a rare moment of hope in the deadly pandemic verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Laurie McGinley, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Josh DawseyThe Food and Drug Administration on Friday gave emergency use authorization to the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine, launching what scientists hope will be a critical counteroffensive against a pathogen...
NPRPets Pandemic Pet Therapy: What's So Special About A Critter Friend? verified_publisherNPR - Patti NeighmondKaren McCullough never wanted a dog. "It would have tied me down, and I had a great, very busy life," she says. Her career as a keynote speaker at conferences has taken her across the U.S., Canada and...
Business InsiderU.S. Politics Doctors say they’re ‘hopeful’ Biden will handle the pandemic better, but ‘disappointed’ that he didn’t win by a landslide verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Mia de GraafDoctors told Insider they are "not surprised, just disappointed" that Joe Biden didn't win the US presidential election by a landslide given the Trump administration's poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Medical News TodayPigs Newly identified swine flu could become a human pandemic Medical News Today - James Kingsland Researchers in China have identified an influenza virus called G4 that can infect both pigs and humans. While G4 is not yet able to spread from …
Wired UKTechnology How to find a new job in the middle of a pandemic Wired UK - Margaret Taylor Daniel Clarke Fiona Inglis and Sam Wilson have a lot in common. Both started out studying sciences – infectious diseases for Inglis, zoology for …
MediumNursing A Very Dark Pandemic Winter is Nigh Medium - Robert Roy Britt Were exasperation levels among health experts plotted alongside surging Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, the curve would be off the charts this …
Pandemics Mask Resistance During a Pandemic Isn’t New — in 1918 Many Americans Were 'Slackers' discovermagazine.com - J. Alexander Navarro, University of Michigan. As the US battled the 1918 influenza pandemic, some communities staged contentious battles against wearing masks. Sound familiar? We have all seen the …
NPRAnimals Whales Get A Break As Pandemic Creates Quieter Oceans verified_publisherNPR - Lauren SommerWhen humpback whales migrated to Glacier Bay in Alaska this year to spend the long summer days feeding, they arrived to something unusual: quieter waters. As the COVID-19 pandemic slows international and...
The Washington PostRobert Redfield Opinion: A public health giant gives a scathing indictment of Trump’s pandemic response verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Editorial BoardWILLIAM FOEGE, a legendary figure in public health who helped devise the strategy that curtailed smallpox in West and Central Africa in the late 1960s and who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Emergency Medicine Don’t Have a Heart Attack During the Pandemic 247wallst.com - Paul Ausick A lack of rapid cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or rapid defibrillation causes more than 350,000 U.S. deaths annually. Emergency medical services …
NPRPandemics There's No Stopping These Seniors; Even A Pandemic Can't Bring Them Down verified_publisherNPR - Lesley McClurgOn the rare occasion she leaves her room, Diane Evans uses a walker to gingerly navigate San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Most days, the 74-year-old wears a multicolored head wrap, known as a an...
A New Peak in the American PandemicBy HealthThe United States surpasses 100,000 new cases in a single day for the first time ever. It's the only time any country has reached that milestone. Plus, the head of the CDC says it's time to develop a test to detect asymptomatic symptoms of coronavirus, the U.N. plans a summit to tackle the pandemic, and how Australia almost eliminated COVID-19 — by trusting science.
WIREDAnimals The Anthropause: How the Pandemic Gives Scientists a New Way to Study Wildlife WIRED - Matt Simon A group of scientists argue that the Covid lockdown, what they’re calling the “anthropause,” is an unprecedented opportunity to study how humans …