This DIY contact tracing app helps people exposed to COVID-19 remember who they met
With new US COVID-19 cases topping 200,000 a day, contact tracers are overwhelmed. Here's how infected people can start tracing and notifying contacts themselves.
yesterday • ~7 min
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New DIY contact tracing app expands the fight against COVID-19, using the science of memory
With new US COVID-19 cases topping 200,000 a day, contact tracers are overwhelmed. Here's how infected people can start tracing and notifying contacts themselves.
yesterday • ~7 min
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Protecting great apes from the unknown effects of Covid-19
Humans can transmit many diseases to chimps, orangutans and their kin. People who study and care for the creatures are taking lockdown-style measures to limit the risk.
Dec. 3, 2020 • ~9 min
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Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 will have side effects – that's a good thing
The side effects of new SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are a result of immune system activation. While uncomfortable, they are both normal and expected. They are a sign that the vaccine is working.
Dec. 3, 2020 • ~9 min
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What are emergency use authorizations, and do they guarantee that a vaccine or drug is safe?
The vaccines that will first be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will have gone through a special approval process with the FDA. but just what is this expedited process?
Dec. 3, 2020 • ~10 min
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How researchers are making do in the time of Covid
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered labs and sidelined scientists all over the world. Here’s a look at how some of them have coped.
Dec. 2, 2020 • ~21 min
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Will there be a post-Thanksgiving coronavirus surge?
Evidence of a post-Thanksgiving surge should be emerging this week, a Harvard epidemiologist said, advising people who gathered together to get tested or assume they’re infected.
Dec. 2, 2020 • ~5 min
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Tribes mount organized responses to COVID-19, in contrast to state and federal governments
Portrayals of Native Americans and COVID-19 often ignore responses rooted in tribal sovereignty.
Dec. 2, 2020 • ~8 min
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American individualism and our collective crisis
Our national and social identity is deeply rooted in values like freedom, equality and order. A political scientist explores how these ideas have affected the US response to the worsening pandemic.
Dec. 1, 2020 • ~14 min
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Rapid COVID-19 tests can be useful – but there are far too few to put a dent in the pandemic
In September, production of rapid tests really ramped up in the US. But due to low accuracy and massive numbers needed, these tests alone are unlikely to have much of an effect on the pandemic.
Dec. 1, 2020 • ~8 min
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