While Americans continue to feud over face coverings, a huge new meta-analysis is out pointing to what really drives the burden of Covid-19 in the Western world: obesity and so-called comorbidities. The […]
What matters
Human guinea pigs
A news analysis More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, doctors in England finally took the bold step of intentionally exposing 36 young and healthy volunteers to the virus in what […]
Stayin’ alive
On a day-to-day basis in Alaska, human survival sometimes still comes down to three basic factors that trace their roots back to the species’ prehistory: situational awareness, judgment and tools. About all […]
3rd wave coming?
On the other side of the world, a masked-up Italy is locking down again in the face of a March 2021 wave of COVID-19 infections looking like the deadly wave of 2020 […]
Dangerous air
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 […]
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 […]
