How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone Nükhet Varlik, University of South Carolina When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue….
By Tom Engelhardt From Tomdispatch.com Reprinted by permission of the author Yes, when he was running for president, he did indeed say: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Then he won — and this November 3rd (or thereafter), whether he…
By Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University More than 10 years after its passage, the Affordable Care Act once more hangs in the balance. There have been plenty of near misses before, including previous Supreme Court appearances and Congressional votes. Yet in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, this time around Republicans…
From Politico Magazine: A vaccine by early 2021, a steady decline in cases by next fall and back to normal in a few years—11 top experts look into the future. By ELIZABETH RALPH 09/25/2020 04:30 AM EDT Deputy editor at Politico Magazine. The microscopic bundles of RNA, wrapped in spiky proteins, latch on to human…
Stacy Morford, The Conversation Scientists have been warning for months that the coronavirus could be spread by aerosols – tiny respiratory droplets that people emit when they talk or sneeze and that can linger in the air. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to acknowledge that risk on Sept. 18. It posted…