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COVID cases in parts of China, including locked down Shanghai, continue to rise, as do deaths, despite strick pandemic quarantine rules.

COVID Cases Keep Rising in China in Spite of Huge Crackdown

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new liver inflammation disease, or hepititits, is cause children to fall ill and require liver transplants. COVID-19 restrictions may have created it.

Doctors Alarmed by Strange Disease in Children

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Authorities in Shanghai and Shenzhen have imposed restrictions on travel for its residents after daily cases in the country spiked in the past week.

Haven’t We Suffered Enough? There’s a New COVID Outbreak in China

By Tony Ho Tran

Bill Gates told reporters risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced,” but that a future pandemic is a near certainty.

Bill Gates Says Yet Another Pandemic Is Coming

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk says he took his kids to watch people panic buy toilet paper during the COVID pandemic, revealed during Tesla's Q4 earnings call.

Elon Musk Says He Took His Children to Watch the Common Folk Hoard Supplies in Panic

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Experts are saying that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is "the most-explosive and the fastest-spreading virus in history."

Omicron Is the “Fastest Spreading Virus In History,” Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers in Kyoto, Japan have created a mask that glows under a UV light when exposed to the coronavirus.

Scientists Invent New Mask That Glows When Exposed to Coronavirus

By Tony Ho Tran

COVID May Have Messed Up One Million Americans’ Sense of Smell

COVID May Have Messed Up One Million Americans’ Sense of Smell

By Tony Ho Tran

The researchers discovered that there was a positive correlation between the sale of alcohol with the number of patients on liver transplant waiting lists.

We Drank So Much During the Pandemic that Liver Transplants Spiked

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers are developing a pill they say might allow people to treat their COVID-19 while limiting its transmission to others.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Say They’re Almost Ready With a Pill to Treat COVID

By Tony Ho Tran

Fox News has adopted a hardline policy in the battle against the pandemic by requiring its employees to be vaccinated or take a daily COVID-19 test.

In Bizarre Twist, White House Praises Fox News for Strict COVID Policies

By Tony Ho Tran

Surges in alcohol consumption during the early pandemic seem to be growing rather than easing up, raising questions about what habits will persist on.

American Alcoholism Is Getting Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.

Scientists: The Pandemic Might Have Caused Two Flu Strains to Go Extinct

By Tony Ho Tran

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci put the United States' failure to reign in the virus into a global perspective during a Monday interview on ABC.

Fauci: The US Has Pretty Much Done Worse Than Any Other Country

By Victor Tangermann

The COVID-19 global pandemic has left a lasting impression on what our planet looks like from space, according to NASA's new dashboard.

You Can See the Pandemic From Space, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

Greenhouse gas emissions dipped during the coronavirus pandemic, but not enough to have a serious or lasting effect on global climate change.

UN: Despite the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gases Are at an All-Time High

By Dan Robitzski

It's been exactly a year since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in China, according to a March report by the South China Morning Post.

The First Known COVID Patient Was Identified Exactly One Year Ago

By Victor Tangermann

The head of the U.N.'s World Food Program warns that without emergency funding, 36 countries around the world could face severe famines next year.

UN Official Warns of “Famines of Biblical Proportions” in 2021

By Dan Robitzski

In a move that makes the game a bit more appropriate to our current reality, "Plague Inc" made a mode where players stop rather than spread a pandemic.

Science & Energy

Reading the Room, “Plague Inc” Makes Game About Stopping Pandemics

By Dan Robitzski

When the world around them quieted down, white-crowned sparrows living near San Francisco learned a new, more intricate song.

Birds Learned a New Song During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

It's not impossible that the next pandemic will involve a deadly virus bioengineered by an adversary, according to Harvard Law fellow Vivek Wadhwa.

Harvard Fellow: Next Pandemic Could Be Engineered by Terrorists

By Victor Tangermann

Disaster preparedness expert Jeffrey Schlegelmilch spends his time predicting megadisasters, but says the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't reached that point.

This Scientist Spends His Time Predicting the End of the World

By Dan Robitzski

According to an investigation by The New York Times, the number of murders has spiked in several larger US cities in the first half of 2020.

Murders Have Spiked in Major US Cities Since the Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

South Korea Encourages Mask Wearing With Massive Drone-Powered Light Show

South Korea Encourages Mask Wearing With Massive Drone-Powered Light Show

By Victor Tangermann

When Tesla transitioned to online sales in 2019 and responded to the coronavirus pandemic, dealership workers were left confused and fearful for their jobs.

Workers Terrified as Tesla Shuts Down Dealerships

By Dan Robitzski

According to retired NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, the global failure to contain COVID-19 could be a teachable moment for asteroid impact planning.

Science & Energy

Astronaut: Killer Asteroid Plan Must Be Better Than COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

According to a BuzzFeed News op-ed, the real economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic is going to happen in August.

Terrifying Argument Says Economy Will Collapse For Real in August

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a newly-passed resolution, Ithaca, New York might become the first U.S. city to cancel and forgive rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic.

City Passes Measure to Cancel Rent During Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Leaked documents dated to earlier this week, obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Yahoo News.

Leaked CDC Documents: Coronavirus Is Spiking in US Again

By Jon Christian

According to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is seeing its business return as passengers leave their homes during "party hours."

Uber Says Rides During “Party Hours” Are Keeping it Afloat

By Dan Robitzski

As schoolchildren stay home during formative periods of their childhood, scientists are predicting they'll face educational setbacks for years.

Scientists Predict the Pandemic Will Set Students Back for Years

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous intelligence officials say that there's evidence China systematically downplayed the size and severity of its coronavirus outbreak.

Secret U.S. Intelligence Report: China Hid The Size of the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

An urban design researcher predicts that the coronavirus pandemic will lead the rich to hide away in gated communities while public infrastructure suffers.

Professor: Pandemic Will Force the Rich Into Hiding

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization formally declared that the coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic, citing a concerningly weak response from some countries.

WHO: Coronavirus Outbreak Now Officially a Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

American doctors are worried that the COVID-19 epidemic could lead to a crisis as patients overwhelm emergency rules and exhaust stores of medical supplies.

American Doctors Are Bracing For a Global COVID-19 Pandemic

By Jon Christian

An executive order mobilized the entire U.S. military to prepare for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, should the outbreak ever progress to that point.

US Military Issues Executive Order to Prevent COVID-19 Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Developing: Coronavirus Catches Influencers

Developing: Coronavirus Catches Influencers

By Foster Kamer

We've tracked the total death toll over time of 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that originated in China last month. The graph will be updated as we learn more.

Here’s the Growing COVID-19 Death Toll in One Chilling Graph

By Dan Robitzski

The 2019-nCoV pandemic that began as a viral outbreak in Wuhan, China has rapidly spread to new countries. Here's how it progressed over time.

Here’s a Timeline of How China’s Viral Outbreak Spread Worldwide

By Dan Robitzski

As China struggles to keep a lid on the 2019-nCoV pandemic, it has now quarantined 12 cities and cancelled their public transportation.

China Has Now Quarantined 35 Million People to Prevent Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

The city of Wuhan, China, wants to build an entire 1,000 bed hospital on a 25,000 square meter plot in just six days to treat coronavirus epidemic patients.

China Is Building a 1,000-Bed Hospital Specifically to Treat Mystery Epidemic

By Victor Tangermann

A genetic analysis of the virus behind the Chinese pandemic reveals that it likely originated from a snake at Wuhan's seafood market.

Mysterious Chinese Virus May Have Spread From Snakes

By Dan Robitzski

Now four cities in China are in lockdown quarantines to try and nip the coronavirus pandemic in the bud, trapping a total 20 million residents.

China Quarantines Three More Entire Cities to Fight Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

A pathogen could start a pandemic that kills 80 million people, according to a newly released report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board.

A New Pandemic Could Kill 80 Million People, Experts Warn

By Kristin Houser

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Health & Medicine

We’re Officially On the Path to a Global Pandemic

By Jolene Creighton

NIH Officially Lifts Ban on Research Studying Germs with Pandemic Potential

Health & Medicine

NIH Officially Lifts Ban on Research Studying Germs with Pandemic Potential

disease pandemic

Health & Medicine

How Ready Are We for a Pandemic? We Asked an Infectious Disease Expert

HIV: Scientists Uncovered The Birthplace of The Disease That Refuses to Die

Science & Energy

HIV: Scientists Uncovered The Birthplace of The Disease That Refuses to Die

By Neil C. Bhavsar