COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus.
A recently published study, found that if everyone living in the United States, aged 25 years or older, died of COVID-19 at the same rate as college-educated non-Hispanic white people did in 2020, 48 percent fewer people would have died.
India’s community health workers and activists are rallying under the slogan “Community health work is work!” to demand fair pay and treatment for the essential services they provide.
A proposal for the WTO to waive intellectual-property rights on pandemic-related pharmaceuticals is still languishing due rich countries companies reaping monopoly profits. A public-health bill in Brazil points to a promising bottom-up solution.
Small errors incorporated into the genome when a pathogen copies itself offer clues to reconstruct chains of transmission and learn about epidemic dynamics along the way.
Despite Thatcher and Reagan’s best efforts, there is and has always been such a thing as society. The question is not whether it exists, but what shape it must take in a post-pandemic world
About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
Researchers in South Africa are studying whether a new variant of the Covid-19 virus is more transmissible and whether it causes disease that is more severe or milder than that produced by other variants.
The pandemic has shown us how antiquated our leave policies are and how dearly they have cost us.
What’s especially bothersome is that Aaron Rodgers didn’t just lie and threaten the health of those around him, he also damaged professional sports. I can’t help but think of Colin Kaepernick...
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