coronaviruses

Older adults in Quito, Ecuador receive their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine yesterday. Image: Rafael Rodriguez/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Tech Companies Have a Role in Expanding Vaccine Access, Information

A COVID-19 patient on oxygen at the Andohatapenaka University Hospital in Antananarivo, Madagascar on July 20, 2020. Image: Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Medical Oxygen: Key to Fighting COVID-19—and the Next Respiratory Pandemic

Actress Vera Miles in Hitchcock’s horror classic “Psycho,” 1960. Image: Archive Photos/Getty

Do Societies Panic?

Scientist Xinhua Yan works in the lab at Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Feb. 28, 2020. Image: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty

At Risk for COVID-19? Warp Speed Vaccine Trials Want You

A Chaudoir funeral home employee disinfects the coffin of a COVID-19 victim in Namur, Belgium on April 20, 2020. Image: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

Make All COVID-19 Deaths Count

The U.S. Capitol--inverted--on June 5, 2003. Image: Stefan Zaklin/Getty Images

How to Turn Around the US Coronavirus Response

Young women model masks worn during America’s Dust Bowl disaster, circa 1935. Image: Bert Garai/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty

COVID-19’s Best Analog Is the 1930s Dust Bowl, Not the 1918 Flu

A nurse monitors a COVID-19 patient in the ICU of Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California on May 21, 2020. Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Depression, Pain, Breathing Problems—and That’s After Surviving COVID-19

A member of Stop Killing Us protests 13% increase in Philadelphia’s murder rate during the pandemic. April 21, 2020. Image: Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty Images

What’s Behind COVID-19 Violence?

Medical staff care for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit of the Ariana Mami hospital near the Tunisian capital, Tunis, on April 22, 2020. Image: Fethi Belaid /AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19 and the Critical Shortage in Critical Care

Researchers at Philipps University of Marburg in Germany are developing a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Image: Arne Dedert/dpa/Getty

In COVID-19 Research, the Need for Speed… and Accuracy

photo illustration of contact tracing

“We Need an Army”: A National Plan for Contact Tracing in the US