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COVID-19 and obesity

COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime A COVID-19 patient is connected to life-sustaining devices at Mount...
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Using Genetic Decoding to Trace Covids Spread

The coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it's been Bert Ely, University of South Carolina and Taylor Carter, University...
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What needs to go right to get a coronavirus vaccine quickly

Marcos E. García-Ojeda, University of California, Merced I, like many Americans, miss the pre-pandemic world of hugging family and friends, going to work and having...
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Vaccine distribution will require specialized handling

Keeping coronavirus vaccines at subzero temperatures during distribution will be hard, but likely key to ending pandemic Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst Just like a...

Loss of your sense of smell and taste an early sign...

Is the loss of your sense of smell and taste an early sign of COVID-19? Steven D. Munger, University of Florida and Jeb M. Justice,...
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The puzzling questions of the coronavirus

A doctor addresses 6 questions that are stumping physicians William Petri, University of Virginia Editor’s Note: As researchers try to find treatments and create a vaccine...

Preventing COVID-19 from decimating nursing home residents

Protecting nursing home residents will require spending money and improving infection control Kathryn Hyer, University of South Florida; David Dosa, Brown University, and Lindsay J....

Dwindling Medical Supplies Expressed in Number of Days Left

A dispatch from the front lines: 'We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers, we talk in terms of days' W. Graham Carlos, Indiana University...

Labs Re-tooling for the War on COVID-19

Researchers seek to re-purpose an existing manufacturing platform to produce a COVID-19 vaccine Alan Rudolph, Colorado State University and Raymond P. Goodrich, Colorado State University The...

Digital Surveillance – During a Pandemic

Digital surveillance can help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control – but also threatens privacy Jennifer Daskal, American University Apple and Google are collaborating on new...

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