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Code Orange stream

13,000 fans moshed at home as a metal band streamed from an empty venue

By Stan Horaczek

Couple holding hands

An expert guide to love and sex during a pandemic

By Sara Kiley Watson

a person cleaning a stairway

How to disinfect public surfaces during a pandemic (and whether you even need to)

By Katherine J. Wu

A roll of toilet paper labeled as "emergency"

No, you don’t need to hoard toilet paper to prep for a pandemic

By Jay L. Zagorsky/The Conversation

A body thermometer

Europe is the new epicenter of coronavirus, and the US may be next

By Rachel Feltman

Masked researchers handling samples

How the COVID-19 mask shortage imperils virus research

By Katherine J. Wu/Undark

Eleven soup recipes perfect for freezing and hoarding

Eleven soup recipes perfect for freezing and hoarding

By John Kennedy

Gotta fly? Wash your hands early and often to keep COVID-19 from following you home

The California Department of Public Health

Who’s responsible for containing COVID-19?

By Brian Labus/The Conversation

medical face mask

COVID-19 symptoms typically appear 5 days after infection

By Kate Baggaley

White hospital beds

COVID-19 has now killed 29 people in the U.S.

By Rachel Feltman

a person washing their hands

Why COVID-19 can’t beat a good hand-washing

a doctor crossing his arms

The American healthcare system is only making COVID-19 worse

Gates of the Arctic National Park

The melting Arctic gives scientists valuable access to long-dead viruses

By Marlene Cimons/Nexus Media

A Chinese doctor standing over a patient

What the official COVID-19 mortality rate actually means

By Rachel Feltman

Person lathering hands under a running faucet

Hand washing trumps sanitizer when it comes to beating viruses

By Sara Kiley Watson

a mug next to a pile of tissues

Thirteen science questions about COVID-19 from teens

By Rachel Feltman

a pile of pills

COVID-19 is exposing dangerous flaws in how we make and prescribe drugs

a person sneezing

All the ways you can—and can’t—catch the coronavirus

By Kate Baggaley

a dirty green and white first aid bag

How to prepare for a viral outbreak like COVID-19

By John Kennedy

a woman at her desk looks at a thermometer

What COVID-19’s ‘inevitable’ spread in the United States actually means

a person wearing a protective medical suit and face mask

Just how contagious is COVID-19? This chart puts it in perspective.

By Matthew R. Francis

A view over a plaza in Wuhan, China

The prejudice stemming from the coronavirus outbreak isn’t new

By Marisa Peryer/Undark

a pair of hands lathering soap on a black background

Want to stay healthy? Learn to wash your hands the right way.

By Rachel Feltman

A close-up of a spherical microbe covered in protrusions.

The novel coronavirus finally has a name—two of them, actually

a man holds a phone in his hands on the subway

Coronavirus shows our health agencies are ill prepared for fake news

A lab with pipettes

A small coronavirus breakthrough could aid in the search for a vaccine

By Ian Christopher Davis/The Conversation

baskets of fish at an outdoor market

We’re still not sure where the novel coronavirus really came from

someone helps an older woman put on a face mask

The timing of the Wuhan coronavirus could be a global-health nightmare

fruit bats hanging in a tree

It’s time to start paying attention to Nipah virus

A century ago the Spanish flu killed 50 million—and then we forgot about it

A century ago the Spanish flu killed 50 million—and then we forgot about it

By Eleanor Cummins

Now we know what caused that plane ‘quarantine’ at JFK

Now we know what caused that plane ‘quarantine’ at JFK

Five things you might not know about the plague (not including the fact that it still exists)

Five things you might not know about the plague (not including the fact that it still exists)

By Sara Chodosh

A hundred years later, we’re still not sure why the Spanish flu killed so many people

A hundred years later, we’re still not sure why the Spanish flu killed so many people

By Gerardo Chowell, Cecile Viboud, and Lone Simonsen/The Conversation

How the deadly worldwide pandemic, the Spanish Flu, got its name

How the deadly worldwide pandemic, the Spanish Flu, got its name

By Laura Spinney

Could Climate Change Cause The Next Cholera Pandemic?

Could Climate Change Cause The Next Cholera Pandemic?

Four Predictions About The Ebola Outbreak

Four Predictions About The Ebola Outbreak

Was Quarantine The Right Move?

Was Quarantine The Right Move?

By Neel V. Patel

Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains

Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains

By Rebecca Boyle

Flu Researchers Say: Let Us Get Back To Work Studying Risky Mutations

Flu Researchers Say: Let Us Get Back To Work Studying Risky Mutations

By Rebecca Boyle

Where will the next pandemic come from?

Where will the next pandemic come from?

By David Quammen

A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science

A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science

By Rebecca Boyle

Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, Potent Enough to Kill Millions, Be Published?

Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, Potent Enough to Kill Millions, Be Published?

By Rebecca Boyle

Four Keys to Containment

Instant Expert: the Return of Swine Flu

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

Swine Flu Consistent with Other Pandemic Strains

Swine Flu Consistent with Other Pandemic Strains