Several countries are bringing their COVID-19 cases down to near zero, NPR reported. New Zealand is the world’s biggest success story, with Taiwan and Vietnam also reporting minimal new cases of the disease. Conquering infectious disease has changed a lot since the 1950s. […]
The Civil War represented the first time in history that black soldiers entered military service en masse in the United States of America. […]
Public health figure Dr. Fauci suggested abandoning hand-shaking forever, “Newsweek” reported. He said that letting go of the long-held social practice would help life return to normal and prevent further disease spread. It would also lighten our immune systems’ load. […]
Between adding to the miseries of the First World War, and contributing to the rise of the Second World War, the 1918 Flu had a big impact on human history. What if it were to return today? Would we be prepared to fight it? […]
Cross-species infection of the novel coronavirus is uncertain but unlikely, “The Washington Post” reported. Despite one possible recorded case of human-to-dog transmission, concrete evidence of zoonotic infection has not appeared. Zoonosis is the process of disease jumping from an animal to a human. […]
Conflicting information about the coronavirus is abundant. The risks of the disease, its severity, even its origins seem to be in dispute. A renowned doctor has partnered with The Great Courses to set things straight. […]
The new coronavirus strain has killed more people in China than SARS did, “The New York Times” reported Tuesday. On the verge of becoming a global pandemic, the Wuhan coronavirus now infects 2,000 new people every day. A professor from The Great Courses helped us make sense of the respiratory illness. […]
Flu deaths in the United States have doctors encouraging the public to get the flu shot now, Fox News reported. An estimate of 1,300 deaths have been reported so far, with another 23,000 hospitalizations reported. Why is influenza still such a problem—and such a big one? […]
Before the Enlightenment, the metaphysical view of the human body was that of a machine, and all problems with the machine could only be caused by parts of the machine malfunctioning. Removing or fixing those parts was the job of surgeons, and the idea that tiny animals inside us could make us sick—that seemed silly. But a new scientific paradigm born of the Enlightenment changed humanity’s view of the body. […]
When we outsource our information to the “so-called” wisdom of crowds, we are not helping to make social media a reliable or balanced source of information. Find out why the social media echo chamber is particularly dangerous when it comes to health information. […]
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