With the world in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, all eyes are on vaccine trials and the researchers developing them. But what are they
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#COVID-19 cases are increasing, how can we respond?
States have tried shutting down bars and limiting restaurants to outdoor seating to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images When COVID-19 began spreading in
How Pandemics Reshaped Societies In The Past
How 3 prior pandemics triggered massive societal shifts A 19th-century engraving depicts the Angel of Death descending on Rome during the Antonine plague. J.G. Levasseur/Wellcome
Pandemics has Plagued Us Throughout History
God, plagues and pestilence – what history can teach us about living through a pandemic Anthony Van Dyck’s Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of
The Ways that COVID-19 Travels in the Air
How the coronavirus spreads through the air: 5 essential reads When a person sneezes, tiny droplets, or aerosols, can linger in the air. Jorg Greuel
WHO says: China to allow international experts to probe COVID-19 origin
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that Beijing has reassured that international experts will soon be able to investigate the origin of COVID-19. Beijing said
Nebraska ‘on fire’ with COVID-19, says top official
Nebraska Medical Center, which houses the United States’ only federal quarantine unit, has been pushed to the brink with COVID-19 patients as the nation sees
For Nurses Feeling the Strain of the Pandemic, Virus Resurgence Is ‘Paralyzing’
For Christina Nester, the pandemic lull in Massachusetts lasted about three months through summer into early fall. In late June, St. Vincent Hospital had resumed
