Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes. By: Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, Catherine Matacic In: Science. Apr. 17, 2020 How does the virus attack cells around the body? A clear picture is elusive.
On: 1918 Spanish flu pandemic—historical account, parallels to today, and lessonsEpisode: 107 Date: 17 April 2020Historian and author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History”.Key Subjects1918 Spanish Flu pandemic killed between 50-100 million people (out
On: Comparing COVID-19 to past pandemics, preparing for the future, and reasons for optimismEpisode: 106 Date: 13 April 2020Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity.Key Subjects:Spread.COVID-19 may
On: COVID-19—Lessons learned, challenges ahead, and reasons for optimism and concernEpisode: 102 Date: 31 March 2020Background: Infectious disease epidemiologist.Key Subjects:Infection.Until there is a vaccine, 50-70% of the population may end up getting infected.Math does not look good: 60% infected ->
By: Seth Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, Axel Gandy, H Juliette T Unwin, Helen Coupland, Thomas A Mellan, Harrison Zhu, Tresnia Berah, Jeffrey W Eaton, Pablo N P Guzman, Nora Schmit, Lucia Callizo, Kylie E C Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Isobel Blake, Adhiratha
By: Kylie E C Ainslie, Caroline Walters, Han Fu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Haowei Wang, Marc Baguelin, Samir Bhatt, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Olivia Boyd, Lorenzo Cattarino, Constanze Ciavarella, , Zulma Cucunubá, Gina CuomoDannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Sabine L van Elsland, Rich FitzJohn,
On: COVID-19 (Continued)Episode: 99 Date: March 2020Background: Scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control.Key Subjects:No real sense of actual number of cases (% of population infected).Geographical distribution of cases (density) probably
By: Neil M Ferguson, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Natsuko Imai, Kylie Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Zulma Cucunubá, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Han Fu, Katy Gaythorpe, Will Green, Arran Hamlet, Wes Hinsley, Lucy C Okell, Sabine
On: COVID-19Episode: 97 Date: March 2020Background: Scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control.Key Subjects:COVID-19.One of three 21st century coronavirus pandemics:SARS (2003), MERS (2012), COVID-19 (now).SARS-CoV2 is the virus; COVID-19 is the