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Video: An unhealthy population is at higher risk to die of COVID-19, that’s bad news for Americans

  • Written by Anurag Papolu, Multimedia Editor
Representational image of an older person receiving treatment.Videoblocks

As reports from cases around the world are analyzed, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and other chronic health issues have emerged as particularly high risk factors.

A study by Dr. David L. Katz, medical doctor and preventative and public health expert found that...

Read more: Video: An unhealthy population is at higher risk to die of COVID-19, that’s bad news for Americans

How to avoid infection after a COVID-19 death – an Ebola response veteran explains  

  • Written by Lucy Wilson, Professor of Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Workers wearing protective gear remove bodies of people who have died from COVID-19 from a New Jersey nursing home morgue.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

As the grim reality of COVID-19 unfolds, families and health care workers in the United States are faced with dealing with the horrifying magnitude of deaths from this novel disease. This...

Read more: How to avoid infection after a COVID-19 death – an Ebola response veteran explains  

China turns on the charm and angers Trump as it eyes a global opportunity in coronavirus crisis

  • Written by Klaus W. Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor; Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
China has its eyes on a post-coronavirus world.Ng Han Guan/AP Photo

A new “red scare” is developing in the U.S.

While Beijing is busy with a global propaganda crusade following the spread of the coronavirus from China to around the world, foreign policy hawks in Washington are seething.

Donald Trump lashes out at Beijing’s response...

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Doctors facing grim choice over ventilators told to put patients with disabilities at the back of the line

  • Written by Deborah Hellman, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
With a large number of patients with COVID-19, doctors face difficult choices.John Moore/Getty Images

As cases related to the novel coronavirus continue to strain hospitals, doctors face difficult choices about rationing scarce medical resources like ventilators – choices that will likely determine who lives and who dies.

Several...

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Trump versus the states: What federalism means for the coronavirus response

  • Written by Jennifer Selin, Kinder Institute Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia
On April 13, the president said he had the authority to order the states to reopen the economy.Getty/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

President Donald Trump recently attempted to explain the complex relationship between the federal government and the states, as outlined by the framers in 1787.

“[Y]ou can call it ‘federalist,’ you...

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Can your pets get coronavirus, and can you catch it from them?

  • Written by Annette O'Connor, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, Michigan State University
Our pets are always close at hand. Are they at risk during the pandemic?Mayte Torres/Moment via Getty Images

Humans and animals share many diseases. And as dramatically shown by the tigers that tested positive in the Bronx Zoo, the coronavirus is one of them. As threeveterinaryepidemiologists who study infectious disease, we have been asked a lot...

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Some states more ready for mail-in voting than others

  • Written by Steven Mulroy, Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
Wisconsin voters had to wait in line in April, wearing masks, because they could not vote by mail. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images

When Wisconsin voters and officials sought to adapt the state’s spring elections to better observe social distancing guidelines, the U.S. Supreme Court refused. One of the changes state officials had asked...

Read more: Some states more ready for mail-in voting than others

The coronavirus pandemic is making the US housing crisis even worse

  • Written by Isabel Solange Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
A pedestrian walks past graffiti in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Ninety-five percent of Americans have been ordered to stay at home to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

As a human geographer who studies experiences of home and housing, I find a certain irony to these orders, particularly when wrapped in messages...

Read more: The coronavirus pandemic is making the US housing crisis even worse

1918 flu pandemic killed 12 million Indians, and British overlords' indifference strengthened the anti-colonial movement

  • Written by Maura Chhun, Community Faculty, Metropolitan State University
Cremation on the banks of the Ganges river, India.Keystone-France via Getty Images

In India, during the 1918 influenza pandemic, a staggering 12 to 13 million people died, the vast majority between the months of September and December. According to an eyewitness, “There was none to remove the dead bodies and the jackals made a feast.”

A...

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Catholic Church urges Venezuela to unite against coronavirus

  • Written by David Smilde, Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
He may be praying, but so far the Pope has declined to intervene in Venezuela's crisis to aid a unified coronavirus response.LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images

Coronavirus hasn’t yet hit Venezuela as hard as neighboring Brazil and Colombia. But after years of economic and political crisis, the country’s institutions are in ruins and expert...

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