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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
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...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Jolted by Her Own Illness, Pandemics Scholar Gains Insight into Botched COVID-19 Response
The author of book on the 2009 flu outbreak explains how a lack of effective tests crippled U.S. attempts to contain the coronavirus...
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Can India Contain the Pandemic?
Public health interventions can work in this poor and populous country—but only if the people are involved in designing and implementing them
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Medical Students Can Give Vital Help in the COVID-19 Crisis
They’re not full-fledged physicians, but they’ve been learning important skills that can take the pressure off credentialed M.D.s
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Why Social Media Is Crucial for Frontline Physicians in the Fight against COVID-19
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
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The Challenge of Finding Genome-Based Cancer Treatments
Fighting the disease is like trying to hit a moving target, evolutionarily speaking
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Polling Shows Signs of Public Trust in Institutions amid the Pandemic
The ongoing effort to fight COVID-19 wins broad support, even across partisan divides
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Antibiotic Resistance Could Lead to More COVID-19 Deaths
Secondary bacterial infections are part of the problem, and we need to ramp up research on new drugs to fight them
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To Flatten the COVID-19 Curve, Target the Subconscious
Getting people to comply with social distancing policies is basically an exercise in marketing
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As COVID-19 Accelerates, Governments Must Harness Mobile Data to Stop Spread
Despite privacy concerns, “contact tracing” using GPS data may be our best bet to contain this large and fast-growing pandemic...
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Why Some People Resist Advice on How to Behave in the Pandemic
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