Has Trump’s COVID-19 response really been so dire?
The truth is neither as good as the President makes out, nor as bad as his critics claim
A second wave in Europe? Perhaps, but deaths are still down
At the moment it looks pretty benign
Is the demise of polar bears being exaggerated?
Many of the assumptions about polar bears and sea ice have been made on the back of the animals’ decline in the Western Hudson Bay area of Canada
What we don’t (yet) know about the Oxford vaccine
The presence of antibodies is not a guarantee that a person could not develop COVID-19
The case for a UK Huawei U-turn is growing
COVID-19 has changed everything
Is COVID herd immunity closer than we think?
A Swedish study found that 30 percent of blood donors had an immune response to COVID-19 in their T cells
Should we be afraid of the new swine flu?
COVID-19 will lead to mass panic every time a virus comes to light
Was COVID with us long before anyone realized?
New research suggests the virus was lurking in Europe even before it was identified in China
Isn’t it time Sacha Baron Cohen got canceled?
The performer has gone from comedy to trying in vain to expose prejudice
Why hasn’t the second COVID surge led to more deaths?
There are four possibilities
Was Robert Baden-Powell a Nazi sympathizer?
The Scouts went on to help resettle Jewish children saved in the Kindertransport
Is this the real reason Sweden didn’t lockdown?
Without changing the constitution, the Swedish government could not overrule decisions made by the country’s Public Health Agency
What Beijing’s second wave teaches us about COVID
Maybe the Chinese authorities will succeed in suppressing it a second time — but it is still liable to pop up again
The lessons from Wisconsin’s lockdown lifting
Even after lockdowns end, people aren’t returning to normality
Professor Lockdown doubles down
Why does Neil Ferguson still exert such a grip on the media’s imagination?
Bergamo and the enigma of COVID-19
Somehow, the virus managed to infect a population which was supposed to be in quarantine
Is the second wave of COVID coming?
Six states are showing a worrying spike in COVID-19 infections
What are the long-term effects of keeping schools closed?
The crisis in lockdown learning
Is this why Germany has escaped lightly from coronavirus?
It is hard to explain different death rates simply by the different approaches taken by governments
Immunity to coronavirus may be far more widespread than thought
If some of the population have a degree of resistance thanks to previous infection with other coronaviruses then the numbers change
How sewage tests could save us from COVID-19
Human body waste could prove to be an extremely useful ‘leading indicator’, Yale study finds
Ontario and Germany’s simple alternative to the R number
Link the lifting of lockdown measures to the number of infections per 100,000 population
Are young people more likely to catch COVID?
Young people tend to indulge in the highest amount of social mixing
Stanford study suggests coronavirus might not be as deadly as flu
All their estimates for IFR are markedly lower than the figures thrown about a couple of months ago
Will a vaccine really be ready by September?
Things work differently in a crisis. There is a desperation to get things done
