by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Erin Ross, for Oregon Public Broadcasting, shifts our perspective on COVID-19 from news about Seattle, New York, and other cities to rural communities. Hospitals in smaller towns worry about their capacity to treat seriously ill patients, of course, but they have...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
What do the rich have that most of us don’t? Bryn Nelson, for The Daily Beast, reports that tests for antibodies that might indicate COVID-19 immunity are available in some high-income neighborhoods and scarce everywhere else. The tests have a catch (or two)...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
In her first feature for UW News, Sarah McQuate writes about a new but now common issue for both professors and students: online classes. Remote teaching is hard enough for lecture courses. How, Sarah asks, are professors reworking their classes with labs, fieldwork,...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Preprint sites like bioRxiv get coronavirus results out quickly, Wudan Yan writes for the New York Times. But with only a simple screen and without peer review, research papers on bioRxiv and medRxiv may lead readers astray. What could possibly go wrong? Wudan gives...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
We’ve been sheltering, distancing, and flattening the COVID-19 curve, Lynn Peeples writes for The Daily Beast. What’s next? Maybe cycling, Lynn says, but not on your trail or racing bike. Lynn talks to experts who make and interpret coronavirus models about continued...
