How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
US FDA clears Pfizer vaccine, and millions of doses will be shipped right away ~health Article 2763 words 17 votes
Moscow begins distributing the Sputnik V Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine to the most exposed groups via seventy clinics ~health Article 608 words 10 votes
NHS to trial blood test to detect more than fifty forms of cancer ~health healthcare Article 770 words, published Nov 27 2020 9 votes
How Iceland hammered COVID with science – the tiny island nation brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus ~health Article 2897 words 9 votes
Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer ~health medicine Article 285 words 30 votes
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine goes to US Food and Drug Administration today for emergency authorization ~health medicine Article 553 words 12 votes
Why is Finland coping so well with the coronavirus crisis? No other European country has lower rates. ~health Article 770 words, published Nov 7 2017 10 votes
The German government's new coronavirus ad, subtitled in English ~health Tweet @Axel Antoni: The German Govt's latest Corona advert - now subtitled in English. Quite good. pic.twitter.com/nbRZIm9RcN 11 votes
Planning is GREAT: Britain was supposed to be the most prepared country in the world. Then an unexpected enemy arrived ~health Article 4436 words 6 votes
Sweden has the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in the European Union, with eighty-one cases per one million citizens – nearly four times higher than the EU average ~health Link 11 votes
CDC coronavirus testers pulled from Minnesota after hostile and racist encounters ~health Article 793 words, published Sep 25 2020 5 votes
How to think like an epidemiologist ~science statistics Article 2341 words, published Aug 4 2020 6 votes
Into the fog: How Britain lost track of the coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 5129 words 6 votes
Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns ~health Article 499 words 9 votes
Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA ~health Article 532 words 7 votes
Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet ~tech privacy Article 863 words 6 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
WHO warns millions of children at risk as Covid-19 pandemic disrupts routine vaccinations ~health Article 492 words 7 votes
Finland has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the number of smokers without seeing a surge in e-cigarette users ~health Article 801 words, published May 4 2020 7 votes
Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps ~health Article 859 words 8 votes
Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain ~health healthcare Article 854 words 8 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
‘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
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
Blood banks narrowly averted a supply crisis. But they’re ‘worried about four weeks from now.’ ~health healthcare Article 1141 words 5 votes