Japan ends its COVID-19 state of emergency
The country’s COVID-19 countermeasures relied on voluntary social distancing and limited testing
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Study tells ‘remarkable story’ about COVID-19’s deadly rampage through a South African hospital
Staff and medical equipment carried the virus from patient to patient and from ward to ward -
Doubts greet $1.2 billion bet by United States on a coronavirus vaccine by October
Operation Warp Speed’s funding of AstraZeneca is intended to deliver a COVID-19 vaccine by October, although some call that timeline unrealistic -
Coronavirus antigen tests: quick and cheap, but too often wrong?
Tests that detect coronavirus proteins raise hopes of widespread daily screening -
How Sweden wasted a ‘rare opportunity’ to study coronavirus in schools
One of the few countries to keep primary schools open failed to collect data on children’s role in pandemic -
‘The house was on fire.’ Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic
Shao Yiming leads the HIV program at China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention -
Nobel laureates and science groups demand NIH review decision to kill coronavirus grant
Agency killed funding after complaints from Conservative media and President Donald Trump -
COVID-19 contact tracing apps are coming to a phone near you. How will we know whether they work?
Digital contact tracing could help stop viral spread—but it has yet to prove its worth -
Doctors race to understand rare inflammatory condition associated with coronavirus in young people
Studies launching could pinpoint children most at risk -
Podcast: How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water
On this week’s show: The enormous challenge of returning to research during a pandemic, and modeling the prevalence of arsenic around the world -
Professors must support the mental health of trainees during the COVID-19 crisis
Our columnist shares tips on how faculty members can address mental health issues in their labs -
Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all?
Preventing big clusters of cases would help curb the pandemic, scientists say -
New helmet and tent aim to protect health care workers from the coronavirus
Devices would use negative pressure to capture virus-laden particles during medical procedures -
T cells found in COVID-19 patients ‘bode well’ for long-term immunity
New findings suggest past infections may offer some protection against the novel coronavirus -
Watch the coronavirus’ rampage through the body
Clinicians see a range of impacts from COVID-19—from pulmonary embolisms to kidney damage -
From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most
Inequality made historical pandemics ‘worse than they had to be’
