News analysis A year into the deadliest pandemic of the Digital Age, the U.S. government is finally being pressured to accept what has appeared obvious for a long time: SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
Dangerous air
Fumbled messaging
With more than 85 percent of Americans now reported to be masked up – a staggering degree of cooperation on anything in a democracy – and COVID-19 raging at record levels anyway, […]
Think again
If you believe a covering over your face or anyone else’s is offering you all that much protection from the sometimes deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, you might want to think again. A research […]
Protect yourself
Evermore the evidence builds that the way to protect yourself from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus stalking the planet is to stay as far away as possible from other people, any […]
Future COVID
Update: This story was edited on Sept. 7, 2020 to reflect Chinese findings of T-cell immunity for SARS-CoV-2. With COVID-19 cases at over 27 million and some residents of most of […]
Safe, safer, safest…
Stories about a Duke University examination of which face coverings do the best job of stopping our normal, every day, respiratory spray of spittle are everywhere in the news now, but unfortunately […]
Where now?
News analysis Six months into the worst pandemic to sweep the globe since the Spanish Flu more than a century ago, it should now be clear to everyone that the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]
The good news
In the overall scheme of life, Alaska came through the first wave of the global pandemic basically untouched, according to a June summary from the state Division of Public Health. The agency’s […]
Secondhand COVID
Could the SARS-CoV-2 virus become the secondhand smoke of the 2020s? Remember how smokers got kicked to the curb because of the difficulty of designing ventilation systems that kept the cigarette smoke […]
