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
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 CDC? ~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 671 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
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
Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths ~health Link 5 votes
US President Donald Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone ~health Article 265 words 12 votes
Sweden's SVT orders crime drama Blackwater from The Killing producer Piv Bernth ~tv Article 427 words 4 votes
Japan's next restroom revolution? Phasing out squat toilets for Tokyo 2020. ~sports Article 515 words, published Feb 19 2020 8 votes
Train driver and rail worker dead after passenger train derails near Wallan, north of Melbourne ~transport Article 1017 words 5 votes
Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak ~health Article 718 words 8 votes
Competition authority puts brakes on Helsinki-Tallinn combi travel card – app-based service Whim referred the planned cooperation to the Finnish competition authority ~transport Article 515 words 2 votes
The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Here’s how. ~health healthcare Article 2974 words 11 votes