In the Headlines

May 2020

Racial Health Disparities Already Existed in America—the Coronavirus Just Exacerbated Them

CNBC

Many High School Seniors in the “Class of COVID” Are Rethinking Their College Plans

Marketplace

Scientists Create Textile Coating That Can Repel Viruses And Prevent Liquids From Sticking

The International Business Times

How Do You Maintain Dignity for the Dead in a Pandemic?

The New York Times

Scientists Are Drowning in COVID-19 Papers. Can New Tools Keep Them Afloat?

Science

Congress Set Aside $6 Billion for Emergency Grants for College Students. Here's Who Is Getting the Aid

Money

With Colleges Shuttered, More Students Consider Gap Years. But Those May Be Disrupted, Too.

The Washington Post

How Hospitals Make Tough Ethical Calls About Which Lives to Save During a Pandemic

CNN

Pulmonary Rehabilitation After COPD Hospitalization May Save Lives

Reuters

What Is Melatonin?

TODAY

The Race for a Vaccine: How Trump's 'America First' Approach Hinders the Global Search

The Guardian

A.I. Home Fitness Machines Push You Past Your Limits

The Wall Street Journal

Hospitals Struggle to Restart Lucrative Elective Care After Coronavirus Shutdowns

The New York Times

Finding Ways to Move Your Body While Social Distancing

The Conversation

In Defense of a Good Cry, and Other Options for 'Losing It'

The New York Times

A Crisis for Urban Universities

The Wall Street Journal

How Do You Make a Virtual Commencement Worth Watching? Add Celebrity Cameos and a Marching Band

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Maybe Coronavirus’s Aggressiveness Could Be Changed by Adding or Subtracting Sugar Molecules From Its Spike Protein

The Conversation

‘It Will Not Be Easy.’ As Labs Begin to Reopen, Enormous Challenges Remain

Science

'A Race Against the Disease': Canadian Researchers Part of Global Effort to Develop COVID-19 Vaccine

CBC News

Intubation Boxes: An Extra Layer of Safety or a False Sense of Security?

STAT

We're Repeating One of the Worst Mistakes of the Ebola Outbreak in the Hunt for a Coronavirus Cure

The Conversation

Efforts to Beat Back the Coronavirus Are Critical. They’re Also Making Clinical Trials Harder

STAT

Is It Possible to Have a Safe Coronavirus Vaccine by New Year’s Eve?

ABC News

Is It Possible to Have a Safe Coronavirus Vaccine by New Year’s Eve?

ABC News

As Trump Pushes to Reopen, Government Sees Virus Toll Nearly Doubling

The New York Times

How Did Previously Taboo Profanities Become De Rigueur on Cutesy Merchandise?

Vox

Exercising Bayh-Dole March-In Rights Would Handicap COVID-19 Innovation

STAT

How the Fight Against Polio Was Won

CBS News

Coronavirus Robbing Grandparents of Precious Time With Families

NBC News

The Cybersecurity 202: County Election Officials Detail Massive Costs of Remote Voting

The Washington Post

Government Researchers Changed Metric to Measure Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir During Clinical Trial

The Washington Post

The Info War Over Chloroquine Has Slowed COVID-19 Science

WIRED

April 2020

Wuhan as I Knew It: A Pre-Coronavirus Glimpse of a Chinese City That Will Never Be Thought of the Same Way Again

New York Daily News

Telemedicine Key to Us Health Care Even After Pandemic Ends

Roll Call

So When Will a COVID-19 Vaccine Be Available?

Popular Mechanics

We're Repeating One of the Worst Mistakes of the Ebola Outbreak in the Hunt for a Coronavirus Cure

Business Insider

Empty Lecture Halls, No Fall Football, a Freshman-Only Campus

Slate

Coronavirus Vaccine Shows Promise In Monkeys, 'Provided Partial Or Complete Protection' Against COVID-19

International Business Times

Do You Want to Die in an I.C.U.? Pandemic Makes Question All Too Real

The New York Times