Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19

Fact-checking networks fight coronavirus infodemic: While physical responses to the ongoing pandemic—stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and lockdowns—have been effective in mitigating the spread of the virus in many countries, misinformation remains rampant online.

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries | Graphic detail: Official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities

Americans increasingly concerned about ‘second wave’ of coronavirus in the U.S.: Americans are increasingly concerned about coronavirus and seeing ‘regular’ activities as increasingly risky after sentiment moderated earlier in June. This uptick in fears comes as Americans address a possible second wave and reflect on their potential to re-enter social distance quarantines if major warning thresholds are met.

COVID-19 pandemic leads to flood of ‘useless’ science: A group of concerned scientists has warned against a flood of “useless” science published during the COVID-19 pandemic, which they say is overwhelming reviewers and leaving good research “in an increasingly longer queue”. As one case in point, since April, Piotr Rzymski, a researcher at the department of environmental medicine in the Poznan University of Medical Sciences says he has been invited to review over 60 manuscripts on COVID-19 by a variety of scientific journals. “Some were ridiculous,” he said. “My favourite example is a suggestion to blow very hot air into a patient's lung to eliminate the virus.”

COVID-19’s far reaching impact on global drug abuse: More than 35 million people around the world now suffer from drug addiction, according to the latest annual report on the scourge, from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released on Thursday, which also analyzes the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global drug markets.

El enigma de las personas inmunes al coronavirus que no desarrollan anticuerpos: los pacientes que superan la infección estarían protegidos a pesar de no tener anticuerpos detectables