As Trump Praises Plasma, Researchers Struggle to Finish Critical Studies
An American Airlines flight took off from La Guardia Airport in New York last Wednesday morning, carrying 100 pouches of blood plasma donated by Covid-19...
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Does Blood Plasma Work for Covid-19 Patients? No One Knows.
An American Airlines flight took off from La Guardia Airport in New York last Wednesday morning, carrying 100 pouches of blood plasma donated by Covid-19...
A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces
Once again, the coronavirus is ascendant. As infections mount across the country, it is dawning on Americans that the epidemic is now unstoppable, and that...
China Uses W.H.O. Inquiry to Tout Coronavirus Response
Chinese officials are hailing a visit by a team of experts sent to Beijing by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the...
Coronavirus Threatens the Luster of Superstar Cities
Cities are remarkably resilient. They have risen from the ashes after being carpet-bombed and hit with nuclear weapons. “If you think about pandemics in the...
Europe Said It Was Pandemic-Ready. Pride Was Its Downfall.
The coronavirus exposed European countries’ misplaced confidence in faulty models, bureaucratic busywork and their own wealth. By David D. Kirkpatrick, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan...
What We Eat During a Plague
AT THE OUTSET of “The Decameron,” the 14th-century story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, a group of 10 young nobles — seven women and...
Mass Death Is Not Inevitable
Nearly 140,000 Americans have been lost to coronavirus, and many experts fear the deaths will only accelerate in the fall as cold weather forces us...
W.H.O. to Review Evidence of Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus
After hundreds of experts urged the World Health Organization to review mounting scientific research, the agency acknowledged on Tuesday that airborne transmission of the coronavirus...
Africa’s CDC urges more coronavirus tests, masks, as continent’s cases top 500,000
African countries urgently need to scale up coronavirus testing and the use of face masks, a regional disease control body said on Thursday, as the...