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How Masks Went From Don’t-Wear to Must-Have

“There was very strong pushback that the evidence was too weak,” says Lidia Morawska, a leading aerosol researcher at the Queensland University of Technology,...

Dexamethasone and the Recovery Trial’s High-Speed Science

Last week, a British research team announced that a cheap, safe, widely available drug called dexamethasone makes a huge difference in saving the lives...

Shelter In Place Works—If You Can Afford to Stay Home

Among hard-hit essential workers, the precise dynamics of how infections spread are hard to pin down, Havlir notes. Had transmission actually occurred at work?...

What Minnesota’s Protests Are Revealing About Covid-19 Spread

Masks work by reducing the number of infectious viral particles exhaled into the environment. They are not a substitute for social distancing and hand-washing,...

The FDA Revokes Its Emergency Use Authorization for Hydroxychloroquine

Since then, attempts to study the drug have been plagued by confusion. In May, The Lancet, one of the best-regarded medical journals in the...

Covid-19 Is Bad. But It May Not Be the ‘Big One’

Along with scientists, many others, including legislators, former health agency leaders, and members of past investigatory commissions, are now saying that we’ll need something...

The Design and Science of Patio Dining During a Pandemic

In mid-May, Boor and Charles Hemminger, another architect with a restaurant-heavy practice, put together some designs to see if they could get enough socially...

When Doctors and Patients Talk About Death Over Zoom

For doctors who see patients in their homes, tele-health allows them to see many more patients. “One of the challenges is your ‘windshield time’”—all...

Can a Keyboard Crusade Stem the Vaccine Infodemic?

In October, the organization launched a similar project to peel back the curtain on anti-vaccine activism online. With funding from the New York State...

What’s Confusing About Calling Covid-19 Cases ‘Asymptomatic’

Earlier this week, a comment from Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead of the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 response, offered yet another cautionary tale of...

The Remarkable Stuff Scientists Get Done as They Work From Home

“The bottom line is that we have an opportunity to not just put out the fire, but to rebuild a better system,” Wigginton said.NASA...

The Science Behind Orchestras’ Careful Covid Comeback

Marr is not entirely discouraging people from getting their bands back together, even taking aerosols into account. It may just mean considering more factors...

Police Tactics Could Turn Protests Into Covid-19 Hot Spots

In law enforcement theory, it’s called the Miami model, or “strategic incapacitation.” Sometimes it’s just the “hard hat approach.” That’s when police and...

Covid-19 Cases Were Already Rising Before the George Floyd Protests

As of press time, WIRED was still waiting on information from the State Emergency Operations Center about Minnesota’s ability to handle a post-protest increase...

All This Chaos Might Be Giving You ‘Crisis Fatigue’

When you’re faced with a threat, the adrenal glands perched atop your kidneys flood your body with the stress hormone cortisol (which amps...

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