Coronavirus: To Protest or Not to Protest?
In most cases, the danger of transmitting COVID-19 makes avoiding large gatherings a no-brainer. Could the social changes the protestors are demanding lead to long-term health benefits that are worth ...
5 Kesä 202031min
Coronavirus: Should We Let People Get Infected?
If we want to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19, is the shortcut just to mingle without wearing masks, get a lot of us sick — and let a lot of people die?
2 Kesä 202030min
Coronavirus: A Vaccine Is Coming — But How, Where, and When?
The world is going to need billions and billions of vaccines. Who will make them, and where will they come from?
29 Touko 202031min
Coronavirus: Contact Tracing 101
A key to staying safe from COVID-19 is contact tracing — breaking the chain of transmission from person to person. Kelly Driscoll, head of the Community Tracing Collaborative in Massachusetts, explai...
27 Touko 202022min
Coronavirus: So, What’s the Plan?
We are definitely not out of the woods yet with COVID-19, but communities across the world have either eased their lockdowns already or are planning to do so within the next few weeks. Michael Osterho...
22 Touko 202023min
Coronavirus: Why Does This Keep Happening?
This isn’t the first pandemic humanity has faced. From the black death to Spanish flu, from AIDS to Ebola; we’ve been here before. But historian Mark Honigsbaum, author of The Pandemic Century, says t...
19 Touko 202025min
Coronavirus: Being Comfortable with Uncertainty
Researchers are moving at unprecedented speed, but they’re still struggling to understand this pandemic. What does the novel coronavirus do to our bodies? Virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen answers quest...
15 Touko 202020min
Coronavirus: The Search for Antiviral Drugs
The hunt to find antiviral drugs has pressed on as we await a vaccine. Remdesivier is the latest treatment that has been touted to help patients suffering from COVID-19. But does this and other antivi...
13 Touko 202023min
