COVID19

Why simply waiting for herd immunity to covid-19 isn’t an option

Why simply waiting for herd immunity to covid-19 isn’t an option

The latter uncertainty stems from a few big, though related, unknowns. First, how contagious is the virus? The more contagious it is—measured as R0, the average number of people that a victim passes the virus on to—the more people need to be immune for the infection rate to start falling. But estimates of R0 vary. […]

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District Collector PB Nooh

What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19

You can read our most essential coverage of the coronavirus/covid-19 outbreak for free, and also sign up for our coronavirus newsletter. But please consider subscribing to support our nonprofit journalism. For some, this wasn’t their first time fighting a deadly epidemic. In 2018, the state had dealt with an outbreak of Nipah, a brain-damaging virus that, like the coronavirus, had

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Remembering Research Fundamentals in the Age of COVID-19

Remembering Research Fundamentals in the Age of COVID-19

Marketers and agencies are hard at work nimbly adapting their plans and exploring new ways to conduct qualitative and quantitative research in the age of COVID-19. As researchers, it’s essential we keep in mind the fundamentals so we can continue to help our clients build empathy for and understand the people they seek to engage. These fundamentals, important before, are even

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15 government communications leaders getting COVID-19 response right

15 government communications leaders getting COVID-19 response right

Almost overnight, public information officers and digital media directors in government agencies across the country had to switch gears into what’s looking like a long-haul crisis response. As offices were abandoned and children sent home from schools, it quickly became clear that the COVID-19 response was going to be anything but typical. Now, as these

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Radio Corona, Apr 14: John Van Reenen on economic policy and covid-19

Radio Corona, Apr 14: John Van Reenen on economic policy and covid-19

In this episode of Radio Corona, Jennifer Strong, our audio and live journalism editor, will speak with economist John Van Reenen about how to make effective policy to salvage the global economy.  Reenen is a professor of Applied Economics at MIT and recently won the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) research award for his paper

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Here’s what it will take to live in a world with covid-19

Here’s what it will take to live in a world with covid-19

At some point covid-19 will be vanquished. By early April some 50 potential vaccines and nearly 100 potential treatment drugs were in development, according to the Milken Institute, and hundreds of clinical trials were already registered with the World Health Organization. Even with all these efforts, a vaccine is expected to take at least 12

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