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How To Cope With The Mental Health Effects Of Social Distancing For COVID-19

April 4, 2020

According to the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 is caused by a newly discovered virus named SARS-CoV-2.…

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What Will The World Be Like After Coronavirus? Four Possible Futures

April 3, 2020

Where will we be in six months, a year, ten years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what the future holds for my loved ones. My vulnerable friends…

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Coronavirus: Three Ways The Crisis May Permanently Change Our Lives

March 24, 2020

The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing…

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The Flu Pandemic Of 1918: Modern Parallels From A Century-Old Pandemic

March 23, 2020

The influenza pandemic of 1918 (also known as the Spanish flu, even though it didn’t originate in Spain) is among the most severe pandemics in recent history, only second to…

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COVID-19 Treatment Might Already Exist In Old Drugs – We’re Using Pieces Of The Coronavirus Itself To Find Them

March 20, 2020

Why don’t we have drugs to treat COVID-19 and how long will it take to develop them? SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 – is completely new…

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Coronavirus: A Pandemic In The Age Of Inequality

March 19, 2020

Osmel Martinez Azcue felt unwell. Having recently returned home to Florida from China and experiencing flu-like symptoms, he went to his local hospital to get tested for coronavirus. While the…

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Quarantines Have Tried To Keep Out Disease For Thousands Of Years

March 16, 2020

The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine. The practice…

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How Big Will The Coronavirus Pandemic Be? An Epidemiologist Updates His Concerns

March 11, 2020

The Harvard historian Jill Lepore recounted recently in The New Yorker magazine that when democracies sink into crisis, the question “where are we going?” leaps to everyone’s mind, as if…

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Coronavirus: Why People Are Panic Buying Toilet Paper And How To Stop It

March 8, 2020

The UK has found itself in a panic buying frenzy in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. A very flustered health secretary Matt Hancock urged restraint and attempted to calm…

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Coronavirus: Which Countries Are Most Affected?

March 5, 2020

The number of those infected by COVID-19 in Mainland China reported an increase, now with a total of 80,270 confirmed cases, reversing a three-day decline in numbers. The uptick of…

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