Remember the Pandemic’s Heroes?

Will Society Remember the Pandemic’s Heroes? If history is any guide, probably not.

NSF reveals first details on foreign-influence investigations

Exclusive: US National Science Foundation reveals first details on foreign-influence investigations: The funding agency has taken action in 16–20 cases in which foreign ties were not properly reported.

The mysteries scientists are still racing to solve

Six months of coronavirus: the mysteries scientists are still racing to solve: five pressing questions about COVID-19 that researchers are tackling

COVID-19 Projections

COVID-19: 2,407 COVID-19 deaths, based on Current projection scenario by November 1, 2020

Americans wore a mask in stores in past month

Most Americans say they regularly wore a mask in stores in past month: Overall, 65% of U.S. adults say that they have personally worn a mask in stores or other businesses all or most of the time in the past month, while 15% say they did this some of the time. Relatively small shares of adults say they hardly ever (9%) or never (7%) wore a mask in the past month, and 4% say they have not gone to these types of places.

Essential facts about face masks

How to stop your glasses steaming up – and 19 other essential facts about face masks: How often should you wash a cloth mask? And how effective are the disposable ones? The expert guide to choosing, wearing and caring for your face covering

Can fiction help us imagine new ways of existing together in times of uncertainty?

How Fiction Can Help Us Navigate the Pandemic: During the Black Plague, Boccaccio’s Decameron provided readers ways to laugh through the pandemic. A few centuries later, a new kind of pandemic strikes: with Covid-19, the world as we knew it seems forever changed. Can fiction help us imagine new ways of existing together in times of uncertainty?