Infectious Diseases

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: NIAID-RML

COVID-19 Expert Reality Check

Mosquito control volunteers in Senegal visit members of their community to count sleeping places for distribution of mosquito nets. Courtesy, President's Malaria Initiative, 2012. Image: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty

It’s Time for African Youth to Advance the Fight against Malaria

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

Donald Trump and Joe Biden spar in the first presidential debate. Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. Image: Scott Olson/Getty

That Was Bad

A woman wearing a mask watches a traditional ceremony in La Paz, Bolivia on September 21, 2020. Image: Gaston Brito/Getty Images

“You Carry Your Suffering Alone”: COVID-19’s Extra Burden on Women

Surgeons operate in a hospital in Sotouboua, Togo. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

To Prepare for Pandemics, Invest in Surgical Care

A man waves a US flag in front of the Colorado State Capitol building during a demonstration to protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders. Denver, April 19, 2020. Image: Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty

To Fix the US Coronavirus Response, Start with Culture

Student CoVideo Animation Still - 3 Figures In Front of White World Map

COVideo19: Bloomberg School Students Translate the Science

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

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

Indian residents wear face mask outside the Medical College hospital in Kerala, India on May 21, 2018, during a Nipah virus outbreak. Image: AFP via Getty

Lessons on Tackling Online Misinformation During Outbreaks