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Can Humanity Grow Up?
With rapid globalization and technological innovation have come profound new risks not just to individuals and countries, but to humanity's survival. The current stage in our…
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Europe is locking down a second time. But what is its long-term plan?
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Shortly before 11 p.m. yesterday, a waitress passed out paper cups to the…
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Developing Nations Can’t Ease Up on Covid-19 Now
The emerging world may appear to have dodged a bullet but there is plenty of time for new waves of transmission to overwhelm leaky healthcare systems.…
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Myanmar’s Covid crisis rooted in military misrule
Decades of overspending on the military neglected a health care system that is among the world’s most ill-prepared for Covid-19 As Covid-19 infections and pandemic deaths…
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India’s Toughest COVID-19 Test Still Lies Ahead
Winter smog, religious festivals and election campaigns pose a crucial test of India’s pandemic management. The panel of scientists who conducted a study commissioned by the…
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Does coronavirus spread more easily in cold temperatures? Here’s what we know
Why is the reported number of COVID-19 cases rising across Europe now? Many countries ended their full lockdowns at the start of the summer, but it…
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How can we reimagine future global research post COVID-19?
COVID-19 is reshaping the world, including the academic world. What we were familiar with as ‘normal’ is fading away and will need to be rewritten. The…
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How coronavirus exposed the flaws of the childcare economy
The well-being of children, women, and especially women of color is at stake The U.S. government's Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that childcare workers in the…
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Inequality is rising under Covid – how we talk about it is vital
Achieving a more equal society requires successfully reaching beyond the party faithful There are times in which it feels as if we are running two worlds…
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Big Pharma is not willing to help us defeat COVID-19
To efficiently deal with the pandemic and keep everyone safe, we first need to transform the pharmaceutical industry. For months, experts have repeatedly told us that…
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It’s a pandemic: Go after the virus, not the vulnerable
To achieve herd immunity for Sars-CoV-2, it is estimated that at least 60 to 70% of the global population – over five billion people – would…
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Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the disease? The most divisive question of 2020
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000 Americans. That year A.M.M. Payne, a…