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The puzzling questions of the coronavirus: A doctor addresses 6 questions that are stumping physicians

  • Written by William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
The typically crowded Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, now nearly desolate in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Getty Images / Victor J. Blue

Editor’s Note: As researchers try to find treatments and create a vaccine for COVID-19, doctors and others on the front lines continue to find perplexing symptoms. And the disease itself has...

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Remdesivir explained – what makes this drug work against viruses?

  • Written by Katherine Seley-Radtke, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and President-Elect of the International Society for Antiviral Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Remdesivir is an experimental medicine that is showing promise in clinical trials for COVID-19. Photo by ULRIC PERREY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

With the FDA approving Gilead’s Remdesivir as an emergency use treatment for the most acute cases of COVID-19, many people are wondering what type of a drug it is.

Remdesivir is a member of one of the...

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Exit from coronavirus lockdowns – lessons from 6 countries

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
People, some wearing masks, enjoy a walk in a park in Rome as Italy, the first nation to impose a nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus, begins to reopen – slowly.Franco Origlia/Getty Images

It has been less than two months since the world scrambled to go into the “Great Lockdown” to slow the spread of COVID-19. Now, many...

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Mass arrests and overcrowded prisons in El Salvador spark fear of coronavirus crisis

  • Written by Miranda Cady Hallett, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights Center Research Fellow, University of Dayton
Even before COVID-19, El Salvador's prisons were contagious disease hotspots. Here, MS-13 gang members with tuberculosis at Chalatenango prison, March 29, 2019.Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images

Governments around the world, from Brazil to the United States, are releasing some prisoners in an effort to reduce COVID-19 outbreaks in overcrowded...

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Black Americans are bearing the brunt of coronavirus recession – this should come as no surprise

  • Written by William M. Rodgers III, Professor of Public Policy and Chief Economist, Rutgers University
When the shuttered economy reopens, how many black Americans will be left out in the cold?http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Virus-Outbreak-Unemployment-Funds/390acd85a7b94a2a8cfddfdd414dacfa/1/0Mark Lennihan

As the COVID-19 pandemic worsened in April, many Americans were shocked by the extent that black Americans were being disproportionately...

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Skipping standardized tests in 2020 may offer a chance to find better alternatives

  • Written by James D. Kirylo, Professor of Education, University of South Carolina
Not in 2020.Compassionate Eye Foundation/Robert Daly/OJO Images/Getty Images

The Education Department is letting states cancel standardized tests. The move is a practical one: School buildings across the nation are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, even though distance learning efforts are widespread.

As a result, 2020 is the first year...

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Virtual reality campus visits let students connect with colleges during COVID-19

  • Written by Carol Cutler White, Assistant Professor of Community College Leadership, Mississippi State University
Goggles let students visit college campuses without having to travel.Person County Schools, CC BY-ND

When I first envisioned a phone app to replace the physical college campus tour, it was a way to enable rural students and those who aren’t wealthy to visit campuses without having to travel to get there. As state director of a federally...

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Coronavirus tests are pretty accurate, but far from perfect

  • Written by Maureen Ferran, Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rapid blood tests for coronavirus could fill a large gap in knowledge. Taechit Taechamanodom/Moment via Getty Images

Widespread testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus is important to both slow the virus and gain information about how widespread it is in the U.S. But a second aspect of testing has gotten less attention: accuracy.

It’s surprisingly...

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Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar

  • Written by Sam Goree, PhD Student in Informatics, Indiana University
There's a creeping conformity taking place on the web.Mint Images via Getty Images

Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are all websites starting to look the same?”

These posts usually point out some common design elements, from large images with superimposed text,...

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How does a baby 'breathe' while inside its mom?

  • Written by Julie Pollock, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Richmond
Her deep breath has to get to the baby.electravk/Moment via Getty Images

“Mothering” is synonymous with “nurturing,” probably because moms start providing for their kids even before they’re born.

A fetus relies on its mother to provide all the essentials. The placenta is key here; this organ develops in the uterus and...

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