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Before the COVID pandemic, several studies showed that rates of loneliness were stable in England, the U.S., Finland, Sweden ...
The United States has rejected amendments adopted in 2024 by members of the World Health Organization to its legally binding ...
The worst public health crisis in 100 years became arguably the worst public policy failure in U.S. history because of social ...
“An outbreak of this”, “epidemic of that”, “protect yourself against a potential pandemic of some horrible sounding disease”. In this article, we take a look at the terminology used by epidemiologists ...
Gaps in the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic will handcuff responses to future epidemics and pandemics. Solutions exist for them.
The nomenclature dictating what is a pandemic, what is an epidemic, and whether the spread of avian flu meets the criteria for the label of a pandemic can be confusing, to be sure.
Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...
Columbus' Office of Violence Prevention compiled a list of community resources for violence intervention, mentoring, youth and more.
Simulations that help determine how a large-scale pandemic will spread can take weeks or even months to run. A recent study in PLOS Computational Biology offers a new approach to epidemic modeling ...
The science of viruses, born out of the 20th century's deadliest pandemic, launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction, saving countless lives in the decades to come.
Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, ...
An epidemic or pandemic does not mean, though, that you should make a run on bottled water and buy all the toilet paper you can find. That is, if theres any still left on shelves.