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I’m a big fan of sushi and ceviche, so I was alarmed to see the headline on a recent news release from the University of Washington stating that “‘Sushi parasites’ have increased 283-fold in past 40 years.” But after digging into the research, which came out of a marine ecology lab run by Chelsea Wood […]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned last year that a pandemic caused by a novel strain of influenza would cripple the country‘s response capabilities by driving millions of people into overwhelmed hospitals. The report, which was written before the new coronavirus first surfaced in China, offered these prescient predictions: The deluge of patients would create […]

On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. A pandemic occurs when a new disease, for which people have no immunity, spreads across the globe, being readily transmitted from person to person. In the last century we’ve had four pandemics, all caused by novel strains of flu, the worst […]

COVID-19 is different from the viral epidemics of the recent past in a few ways: it is more widespread than severe acute respiratory syndrome, more infectious than seasonal influenza and has killed more people than Ebola. And it is different in the way that epidemiologists are tracking its progress. Instead of relying principally on the […]

In recent weeks, many Americans have voluntarily and radically altered their behavior in order to protect others from the novel coronavirus. Those who are less vulnerable are making sacrifices in order to protect those who are more vulnerable: the elderly, the immunocompromised, and—in our country, with its broken social safety net—the uninsured and the poor. […]