Lockdowns and Social Distancing during COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

Research groups are trying to calculate how much we can safely relax social distancing restrictions, but we’re still missing critical pieces of dat... (2020)

How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country? … “ is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in ... (2021)

MIT Technology Review’s editor-in-chief Gideon Lichfield explains the key testing and tracing measures we’ll need before we can even think about ea... (2020)

Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind—and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing. (2020)

It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is r... (2020)

Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm warns that the threat from the pandemic is ongoing. "We will all know somebody — we will all love somebody — who w... (2020)

Once enough people get Covid-19, it will stop spreading on its own. But the costs will be devastating. (2020)

Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots an... (2020)

Governments are monitoring it closely to decide whether to lift their lockdowns. But what actually is the “reproduction number”, and how do we keep... (2020)

COVID-19 safeguards have created a black market for gyms. What Evelyn uncovered can only be described as a speakeasy gym. You know, illegal, hus... (2020)

The members of the "Critical Role" podcast never imagined their game would become a popular success and a digital media brand. (2021)