Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
As fear of mortality rises, so does tribalism and support for authoritarian leaders, according to terror-management theory...
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
They’re not full-fledged physicians, but they’ve been learning important skills that can take the pressure off credentialed M.D.s
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
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
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...