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Clear, consistent health messaging critical to stemming epidemics and limiting coronavirus deaths

  • Written by Thespina (Nina) Yamanis, Professor of Global Health, American University
Ireland's health minister, center, models social distancing at his nightly coronavirus press briefing March 27, 2020.Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie/PA Images via Getty Images

While the deadly coronavirus spreads rapidly in the United States, United Kingdom, France and beyond, several countries in Asia and Europe have flattened the curve or slowed...

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COVID-19 is hitting black and poor communities the hardest, underscoring fault lines in access and care for those on margins

  • Written by Grace A. Noppert, Postdoctoral Scholar in Epidemiology, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nurse Shelia Rickman participates in an after-shift demonstration on Monday, April 6, 2020, in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, after media reports of disproportionate numbers of black people dying from COVID-19 in the city. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story...

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How can the houseless fight the coronavirus? A community organization partners with academics to create a grassroots hand-washing infrastructure

  • Written by Cerianne Robertson, Ph.D. student in Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Natosha, a houseless resident in Los Angeles' Skid Row points to a DIY handwashing station. Pete White/LA CAN, CC BY-ND

The day the governor of California ordered the closure of dine-in restaurant operations, gyms, fitness centers and movie theaters because of the coronavirus, staff members of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, a grassroots...

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For asthma patients, the novel coronavirus can be scary. Here's what you need to know

  • Written by S. Cindy Xi, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California
Hospitals have started using albuterol inhalers with coronavirus patients, making the rescue medication harder for asthma patients to find in some areas.Alan Levine/flickr, CC BY

The new coronavirus’s ability to wreak havoc in the lungs is raising a lot of concerns and questions from my asthma patients. They already know how it feels to have...

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Coronavirus research done too fast is testing publishing safeguards, bad science is getting through

  • Written by Irving Steinberg, Dean for Faculty, USC School of Pharmacy; Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Pediatrics, School of Pharmacy & Keck School of Medicine of USC; Director, Division of Pediatric Pharmacotherapy, Dept of Pediatrics, LAC+USC
Science is happening fast and mistakes are being made Yagi Studio/ DigitalVision via Getty Images

It has been barely a few weeks since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic. The pace at which the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread across the globe is jolting, but equally impressive is the speed at which scientists and clinicians have been fighting back....

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Here's how Americans coped during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Melissa Cyders, Associate Professor of Psychology, IUPUI
Most people felt they were doing OK – with lots of TV and news updates.Erik Mclean/Unsplash, CC BY

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyday life for Americans. How well are people across the country dealing with the new reality of closed businesses, shuttered schools, social distancing and the threat of the coronavirus itself?

As psychologyr...

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Coronavirus: Developing economies are getting crushed – here's why their rich neighbors should help them

  • Written by Rick Rowden, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service
Brazil and other developing countries are being hit hard by the pandemic.AP Photo/Andre Penner

The entire global community is now facing the unprecedented triple crisis of a global health pandemic, economic recession and global financial meltdown – and the fates of rich and poor countries have never been so intertwined.

Commodity prices are...

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Digital surveillance can help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control – but also threatens privacy

  • Written by Jennifer Daskal, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Technology, Law & Security Program, American University
Digital footprints.Prasit photo/Moment via Getty Images

Israel’s top spy agency has been using secretly collected cellphone data to retrace the movements of those who tested positive for the coronavirus.

The Polish government launched the “Home Quarantine” app so that people in quarantine can upload geo-located photos proving...

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Why sports still matter – even in a time when you can't actually watch any

  • Written by Francisco Javier López Frías, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University
Baseball fans look through a fence of the stadium following the cancellation of a game in Fort Myers, Florida.AP Photo/Elise Amendola

Most of the sports world has ground to a halt over the coronavirus pandemic. The Tokyo Olympic Games, the NBA season, and soccer’s Champions League, along with many other major tournaments, have been postponed....

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