Covid’s Spread in Schools Questioned

Covid’s Spread in Schools Is Questioned in Latest Nordic Study: Scientists in a Nordic study have found that keeping primary schools open during the coronavirus pandemic may not have had much bearing on contagion rates.

There was no measurable difference in the number of coronavirus cases among children in Sweden, where schools were left open, compared with neighboring Finland, where schools were shut, according to the findings.

Inside the Coronavirus

Inside the Coronavirus: For all the mysteries that remain about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes, scientists have generated an incredible amount of fine-grained knowledge in a surprisingly short time.

UK coronavirus blame game

Inside Westminster’s coronavirus blame game: What went wrong with the UK government’s pandemic response and why? As an inquiry looms, the search for a scapegoat is on

Robots working to disinfect your office

Meet the robots working to disinfect your office: As companies aim to reopen amid the pandemic, keeping workers safe is every businesses' primary concern. Fetch Robotics, a 6-year-old logistics automation company, thinks that robots may be part of the solution.

Back to School?

Back to School? “No Thanks” Say Millions of New Homeschooling Parents: Many parents are balking at back-to-school, choosing instead to homeschool their children this fall.

Why Science Needs Skeptics

The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics: The dumpster fire of COVID predictions has shown exactly why it’s important to sustain and nurture skeptics, lest we blunder into scientific monoculture and groupthink. And yet the explosion of “cancel culture” intolerance of any opinion that doesn’t fit a shrinking “3 x 5 card” of right-think risks destroying the very tolerance and science that sustains our civilization.

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly: it seems that PHE [Public Health England] regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not. PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the COVID test result was, nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community. Anyone who has tested COVID positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE COVID death figures.