2 min read Dr. William Petri, a professor of medicine and immunologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center, explains when you need to call your doctor
3 min read "Social distancing is a tool public health officials recommend to slow the spread of a disease that is being passed from person to person. Simply put, it means that people," writes Thomas Perls, Geriatrician and Professor of Medicine at Boston University
3 min read "Anywhere from 20% to 60% of the adults around the world may be infected with the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2," writes Matthew McQueen, Director of the Public Health Program and Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder
6 min read "The conspiracy theories about the virus range from it being a biological weapon created by the Chinese government, that it is a conspiracy created by U.S. democrats to prevent Trump’s reelection, or that the CIA created the virus in order to lessen China’s power," writes Julia R. DeCook, specialist on online extremist movements, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago
1 minute read Robert Reich, 22nd Secretary of Labor of the United States (under President Bill Clinton), offers excellent advice
1 minute note from Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief, iDose
3 minute read Dean Baker. macroeconomist and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C offers important policy guidance
Eminent economist Nouriel Roubini makes the case for a recession. Note that a basic level of economic literacy is needed to understand his arguments.
2 minute read "...We do know one thing: The U.S. is not prepared to fight a deep recession," writes Economist Bill Ferguson, Grinnell College