Share this on WhatsApp COVID-19 has swept the world in a global pandemic of extraordinary proportions. The debate about its eventual health costs continues to rage, but one Centers for Disease Control estimate suggested anywhere between 200,000 and 1.7 million deaths could be expected in the United States alone, depending on the eventual fatality rate, […]
Share this on WhatsApp Is density really the driver of this epidemic or is the idea misplaced? When people are packed tightly into urban areas they come in contact more often, and thus have more opportunities to spread disease. This intuition coincides with our standard understanding of the spread of infectious disease—but only partly. To […]
Share this on WhatsApp More than 200 million people get malaria each year. And about half a million die—mostly in Africa, many of them children. And those staggering numbers are an improvement. Malaria deaths have been cut in half since 2000. In many places, a remarkably simple tool has led the fight: bed nets treated […]
