How to stop a pandemic
Behind every government announcement, there is an army of epidemiologists predicting how the virus will spread, and how to beat it.
Christian Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
• conversation
March 25, 2020 • ~17 min
March 25, 2020 • ~17 min
COVID-19 treatment might already exist in old drugs – we're using pieces of the coronavirus itself to find them
Among the more than 20,000 drugs approved by the FDA, there may be some that can treat COVID-19. A team at the University of California, San Francisco, is identifying possible candidates.
Nevan Krogan, Professor and Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco
• conversation
March 20, 2020 • ~8 min
March 20, 2020 • ~8 min
What's the difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak?
From the neighborhood to the newsroom to the White House, nobody stays silent during a health emergency. These terms are often mixed up, and it matters who is using them and when.
Rebecca S.B. Fischer, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Texas A&M University
• conversation
March 9, 2020 • ~5 min
March 9, 2020 • ~5 min
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