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A molecular biologist explains who should get tested, how the tests work and what the US government is doing to make tests available during a rapidly changing crisis.
Stay calm, stick to the facts and talk to your children about your own feelings on the coronavirus and COVID-19 disease.
There are many questions left unanswered because the outbreak is still in an early stage.
As the novel coronavirus spreads, an expert offers ways the elderly can stay safe while staying connected.
Strategic risk communication is needed to curb fearmongering and racist sentiments on social media related to COVID-19
An effective vaccine against lies, spin and confusion.
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.
Pandemic does not refer to the lethality of a virus but to its transmissibility and geographical extension.
Based on current available data, our model predicts by March 31, the number of deaths worldwide will surpass 4,500 and confirmed COVID-19 cases will reach about 150,000.
Our findings also highlight that hot air hand dryers and cloth roller towels can be a problematic way of drying your hands.
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents.
A key component of how the coronavirus could be spreading is the environment.
Viruses are basically parasites and, as such, can wreak havoc – but not always. Viruses are within you right now. Viruses cause the most damage when they jump from a familiar host to a new host.
Leaving your coat at home on a cold winter day doesn’t automatically mean you’re going to get sick. But it could make you more susceptible to germs.
US researchers have revealed the molecular ‘key’ that allows the 2019-nCoV virus to gain access to our cells. And they found it is many times more tenacious than the previous SARS virus.
Viruses are small enough to pass through filters, including face masks. Disabling viruses with electrically charged gases could be a better way to curb airborne transmission.
Exotic and sensational depictions of Chinese “wet markets” may prevent a proper and efficient understanding of how viral diseases emerge.
The novel coronavirus spreading outward from Wuhan, China, will get an assist from a subset of infected people who transmit it to many others.
China’s strategy to contain the coronavirus just might work because of the way cities and infrastructure have been developed.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
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Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Director of Microbiology, University of California, San Diego
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Medicine and Vice President, Research, McMaster University
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
