Straight talk from ex-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the long slog ahead ~health Article 4448 words 5 votes
What we know about your chances of catching the virus outdoors: Pandemic life is safer outdoors, in part, because even a light wind will quickly dilute the virus ~health Article 216 words 8 votes
A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong. ~health Article 2259 words 5 votes
An entire city (Noida, India) has been told to download a controversial contact tracing app — Or face jail: "Not installing the app will be considered a violation of lockdown orders," police say ~health Article 9 votes
COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means? ~health Article 1572 words 5 votes
“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response ~health Article 2203 words 7 votes
What happens next? COVID-19 futures, explained with playable simulations ~health Article 4482 words 6 votes
Sweden could soon be within easy reach of London by overnight sleeper train under proposals drawn up by the country's rail planners ~transport Article 12 votes
‘Closing borders is ridiculous’: The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy ~health Article 1233 words 10 votes
How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process) ~health Article 1693 words, published Feb 12 2015 11 votes
A disaster waiting to happen or a bold, evidence-based response? In Sweden, it depends who you ask ~health Article 1057 words 6 votes
Sweden counts coronavirus deaths in care homes but many countries do not – medical officials said a third of deaths recorded last week came from nursing home residents ~health Link 5 votes
America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus ~health Article 96 words 6 votes
Why I’m not making COVID19 visualizations, and why you (probably) shouldn’t either ~health Article 2370 words, published Mar 31 2020 4 votes
For several thousand years the moose have walked the same path to get to the rich pastures of summer – follow the walk live ~tv Link 5 votes
Novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next ~health Article 2892 words, published Apr 3 2020 5 votes
US Food and Drug Administration relaxes blood donation guidelines for gay men and others ~lgbt Article 8 votes
The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital's metro ~transport Article 332 words 6 votes
Blood banks narrowly averted a supply crisis. But they’re ‘worried about four weeks from now.’ ~health healthcare Article 1141 words 5 votes
Japan as a coronavirus outlier: Conspiracy, good fortune, or efficacy? ~health Article 1255 words 9 votes
As the coronavirus crisis heats up, why isn't America hearing from the Centers for Disease Control? ~health Article 1323 words 17 votes
Preliminary evidence suggests Bay Area shelter-in-place order is flattening the curve ~health Article 1004 words 11 votes
Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020 ~health Article 3537 words 3 votes
Swedish PM Stefan Löfven warned over 'Russian roulette-style' Covid-19 strategy – health experts say attempt to build herd immunity is a 'mad experiment with 10m people' ~health Article 1181 words 6 votes
LA, other SoCal cities cracking down on crowds at parks, beaches to stem spread of COVID-19 ~health Article 454 words 5 votes
Meet seventeen-year-old Avi Schiffmann who runs a coronavirus tracking website used by 40+ million globally ~health Video 14:02, published Mar 17 2020 6 votes
The UK backs away from “herd immunity” coronavirus proposal amid blowback ~health Article 1178 words 7 votes
Anyone arriving in Australia from overseas will to be forced to self-isolate for fourteen days ~health Article 972 words 9 votes
US Food and Drug Administration worried about blood shortage as donation drives are canceled amid coronavirus concerns ~health healthcare Article 720 words 8 votes
US President Donald Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis ~health Article 1697 words, published Mar 7 2020 9 votes
Rep. Katie Porter gets US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief to agree to pay for coronavirus testing ~health Article 9 votes
Young and unafraid of the coronavirus? Good for you. Now stop killing people. ~health Article 1144 words 21 votes
‘It’s just everywhere already’: How delays in testing set back the US coronavirus response ~health Article 2745 words 15 votes
The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified ~health Article 845 words 29 votes
Hand-washing with soap and water destroys coronavirus more effectively than hand sanitizer ~health Article 1177 words 27 votes
Why the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched its coronavirus testing ~health Article 923 words, published Mar 5 2020 6 votes
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained ~health Article 1970 words 9 votes
Sweden's Melodifestivalen is celebrating its 60th year – why a national Eurovision show won global fans ~music Article 679 words 4 votes
Why Taiwan has just forty-two coronavirus cases while neighbors report hundreds or thousands ~health healthcare Article 830 words 12 votes
A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health ~health.mental Article 5012 words 11 votes
How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical' in the US ~enviro pollution Article 1248 words 10 votes