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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a potentially long incubation period and spreads opportunistically among those who are unaware they are infected. Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases are those that do not develop symptoms for the duration of infection, whereas presymptomatic...

Promesas vacías, retrasos, problemas de infraestructura y arbitrariedades son algunos de los desafíos que enfrentan los países en desarrollo de escasos recursos para la adquisición, distribución y administración de vacunas contra la COVID 19, lo cual plantea consecuencias de largo alcance que podría...

Like most events that have taken place since March of last year, the Sun-dance Film Festival—normally hosted in the cozy ski town of Park City, Utah—was held virtually in 2021. But what it lacked in celebrity sightings and snowy ambiance was more than made up for in the festival’s assort-ment of pro...

Aún sin un respaldo científico que garantice su eficacia para COVID-19, varios países de América Latina autorizaron, recomendaron e, incluso, compraron masivamente fármacos como la ivermectina, la hidroxicloroquina y la cloroquina, generando falsas esperanzas, problemas de automedicación, desabastec...

Reino Unido es uno de los países con más muertos por covid-19 del mundo y su histórico servicio público de salud está bajo una inmensa presión por una variante del virus más infecciosa. Este documental, conducido por el periodista de la BBC Clive Myrie, sigue al personal sanitario del Royal London Hospital en su lucha diaria para atender y salvar a un número cada vez más abrumador de pacientes con covid-19.

In April 2020, our email inboxes and Twitter accounts blew up with messages from journalists asking questions about the COVID-19 pandemic. They reached out to us because we both study health disparities—Esther from a medical perspective, Neil from a social science perspective—and regularly communica...

Thousands of scientific papers on COVID-19 are published every week. Many of these papers are based on research findings, case studies and expert views that can potentially make news. How can journalists find these publications, spot the news and report on them? That is the main focus of “Reporting...

Explore the relationship between viruses and their hosts, and find out how the evolutionary adaptations of bats keep them safe from viruses.

El Dr. Gerardo Ceballos nos explica la relación entre la extinción de especies y el brote de pandemias.