Tag: pandemic
Ahead of pandemic talks, this doctor has nature on his mind
Dr. Neil Vora has spent much of his career chasing and treating infectious disease outbreaks, from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to COVID-19 in New York City. His prescription for stopping the next one: Protect nature. two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases are caused by pathogens that originate in animals that have jumped into people…
Five Years after the COVID Pandemic Began, Fatigue and Frustration Remain
COVID Pandemic Fatigue Has Left the U.S. Vulnerable to New Threats The “quarantine fatigue” of 2020 became an ongoing “pandemic fatigue,” a complex set of emotions that continues to affect the nation By Meghan Bartels edited by Tanya Lewis People wearing protective masks wait on a subway platform at Grand Central in New York, U.S.,…
Carl Zimmer on His New Book Air-Borne and What Public Health Experts Learned from the COVID Pandemic
The Air around Us Is Full of Life By Rachel Feltman, Naeem Amarsy, Jeffery DelViscio & Fonda Mwangi [CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You probably don’t spend too much time thinking about the air you breathe—at least relative to the amount of time you spend actually breathing…
Winter pressures ‘as bad as strain of pandemic’
The pressures in A&E are as bad as they were in the pandemic, NHS bosses say. With flu cases continuing to rise and the cold weather, NHS England medical director Prof Sir Stephen Powis said hospitals were under “exceptional pressure” and facing “mammoth demand”. He said some staff were saying the strain being placed on…