The World Health Organization plans to update its advice after hundreds of experts urged the agency to reconsider the risk of aerosol transmission.
Tag: Epidemics
Airborne Coronavirus: What You Should Do Now
How to protect yourself from a virus that may be floating indoors? Better ventilation, for starters. And keep wearing those masks.
Congo’s Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Is Declared Over
The World Health Organization called the end of the country’s 10th outbreak, the second deadliest in history, “a victory for science.” Health workers had faced mistrust and treatment centers were attacked.
Coronavirus in Brazil: Cases and Deaths
How did Brazil became a global epicenter of the outbreak, and what have been the political consequences for its president, who has dismissed the dangers?
In the W.H.O.’s Coronavirus Stumbles, Some Scientists See a Pattern
The agency’s advice sometimes lags behind rapidly evolving research into the coronavirus, experts contend.
How Global Cooperation Could Be Key to Containing the Coronavirus
Six years ago, the U.S. corralled world leaders together to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Blaming China for Pandemic, Trump Says U.S. Will Leave the W.H.O.
America’s decades-long relationship with the organization has been instrumental in improving health around the world.
It’s Not Whether You Were Exposed to the Coronavirus. It’s How Much.
The pathogen is proving a familiar adage: The dose makes the poison.
On a Scottish Isle, Nursing Home Deaths Expose a Covid-19 Scandal
At the Home Farm nursing home on the Isle of Skye, more than a quarter of its residents died and nearly all were infected with coronavirus. Families are furious.
For Some Italians, the Future of Work Looks Like the Past
As the coronavirus drastically reorders society and economies, more Italians are returning to the agricultural jobs of their grandparents.