The disease spreads so fast and is so poorly understood that doctors and researchers are sharing their findings on Twitter and Facebook, not medical journals
They’re not full-fledged physicians, but they’ve been learning important skills that can take the pressure off credentialed M.D.s
The psychosocial repercussions of this crisis could make the tragedy even worse
The author of book on the 2009 flu outbreak explains how a lack of effective tests crippled U.S. attempts to contain the coronavirus...
Public health interventions can work in this poor and populous country—but only if the people are involved in designing and implementing them
Fighting the disease is like trying to hit a moving target, evolutionarily speaking
The ongoing effort to fight COVID-19 wins broad support, even across partisan divides
Secondary bacterial infections are part of the problem, and we need to ramp up research on new drugs to fight them
As fear of mortality rises, so does tribalism and support for authoritarian leaders, according to terror-management theory...
Getting people to comply with social distancing policies is basically an exercise in marketing
Despite privacy concerns, “contact tracing” using GPS data may be our best bet to contain this large and fast-growing pandemic...
The reason is a phenomenon called “solution aversion”
The potential power of 21st-century vaccines
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