Articles Containing Tag: COVID-19

Capitalism has been raising the worldwide standard of living for years. Before the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed the planet, the World Bank’s global poverty rate slipped below 8%, down from 10% in 2015. But governments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 public… Read More

President Donald Trump recently tweeted that he was immune to COVID-19. Twitter attached a warning saying that it “spread misleading and potentially harmful information.” Later, one of America’s top medical experts, Dr. Anthony Fauci, partially defended Trump’s statement. So now… Read More

When we hear the term sanctuary city, we think of illegal immigration. But that’s not the case in California’s newest sanctuary city, Atwater. The pandemic hasn’t been nearly as hard on the city as the state’s shutdown has, and the… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our way of life and has disrupted normalcy. Social media is filled with funny memes as people try to make light of the quarantine to get a few laughs during such tough times. And then… Read More

In the middle of this pandemic, milk is poured down the drain, livestock is euthanized, and vegetables are plowed over. There is huge consumer demand for the essentials, but store aisles are bare. And yet the United States produces and… Read More

If we look at the history of pandemics and fighting diseases, there may be one or two lessons we can learn. Some of the responses to threats like the Black Death just didn’t work, but they may be just the… Read More

The Coronavirus pandemic has a lot of people worried about the dangers of getting infected. It’s easy to get scared, thinking that our bodies have no real defenses against the virus or other microbes like bacteria. That’s not true. The… Read More

While humans are shutting themselves indoors to avoid the Coronavirus, the animal kingdom is taking advantage of the extra roaming space. Cities and tourist areas that are usually bustling with activity have been shut down, giving animals an opportunity they… Read More

When we get sick, it is often because a microbe – like bacteria or a virus – has entered our body. The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted millions of people around the world – but what is a virus, anyway? Here… Read More

The word sacrifice is loaded with power – but does everyone fully understand what it means? A recent NBC/WSJ poll asked participants if they thought the COVID-19 crisis was the most significant public tragedy faced by Americans. The survey listed… Read More

A renowned German epidemiologist is calling for an end to the lockdowns and urging a shift toward the herd immunity strategy. Meanwhile, antibody studies emerging show that 30 times more people are infected than officially reported. Professor Alexander Kekulé, director… Read More

America is finally beginning to open back up, and Governors in at least 17 states in the West, the Northeast, and the Midwest are working with neighbors to coordinate the reopening. Most of the South, however, has chosen strategies independently,… Read More