COVID-19
The essays here deliver fresh insights on the social, political, and scientific aspects of the pandemic, which can help you more fully understand and respond to the complex and difficult events that are now unfolding.
April 25, 2022
Rules for Operating at Warp Speed
On December 11, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine dose for people aged 16 and older. Obtaining an effective vaccine less than a year after… Read More
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January 03, 2022
“Major Reforms Have Been Driven by Crisis”
As an infectious diseases specialist and director of Wellcome, Jeremy Farrar was among the first people in the world to learn about the emergence of COVID-19. Before helming Wellcome, one of the… Read More
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October 20, 2021
Universities Should Set the Standard in COVID-19 Data Reporting
Universities are leading centers of COVID-19 research and are deeply engaged in national response efforts. Although other congregate settings, such as prisons and nursing homes, possess the ability to track and regulate… Read More
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Summer 2021
Practically Wise
In “COVID-19 Through Time” (Issues, Spring 2021), Joseph J. Fins, a physician and bioethicist, describes how “the interplay of time, knowledge, judgment, and action is an essential determinant of how… Read More
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August 11, 2021
COVID Artifacts
It’s been more than a year since the pandemic started. Now that vaccines have arrived, a measure of hope has returned. But memories of the early days of the pandemic lie close… Read More
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August 02, 2021
Unmasking Scientific Expertise
In early February 1976, two cases of swine flu were discovered at Fort Dix in New Jersey. The Center for Disease Control identified the virus as Hsw1N1, similar to the one that… Read More
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June 09, 2021
How National Science Funders Can Strengthen Global Collaboration and Avoid Isolationism
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the fact that national isolation is not a viable option for any country, especially in the areas of science and innovation. Bringing the global scientific… Read More
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May 12, 2021
COVID-19 Through Time
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. —Lewis Thomas In the spring 2020 pandemic surge in New York,… Read More
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Winter 2021
COVID-19 and Prisons
As progressive prosecutors, we read “COVID-19 Exposes a Broken Prison System,” by Justin Berk, Alexandria Macmadu, Eliana Kaplowitz, and Josiah Rich (Issues, Fall 2020), with great interest. COVID-19’s rapid spread… Read More
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March 24, 2021
Cross Section of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
DAVID S. GOODSELL, Molecular Landscape: SARS-CoV-2 and Neutralizing Antibodies, 2020, watercolor, 13 x 10 inches, collection of the National Academy of Sciences. In this watercolor painting, a cross section of the… Read More