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The 432-year-old manual on social distancingIn this spookily prescient booklet, people are advised to keep six feet apart, avoid shaking hands and only send one person per household out to do the shopping.

Masks, Tracking, Desk Shields: How Much Do School Measures Reduce Families' COVID-19 Risk?A new study pinpoints the most effective mitigation measures and suggests that the more of them schools use, the better.

🔊 Listen Now: A 300-Year-Old Tale Of One Woman's Quest To Stop A Deadly VirusShots - Health News on NPR One | 6:09

US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other countryVirus has laid bare America’s fragmented healthcare system and corrosive racial and socioeconomic inequality

IHME | COVID-19 ProjectionsExplore hospital bed use, need for intensive care beds, and ventilator use due to COVID-19 based on projected deaths

Kids And Superspreaders Are Driving COVID-19 Cases In India, Huge Study FindsNearly 700,000 people in India were tested for the coronavirus as part of a massive contact-tracing study. The results served up some real surprises.

What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19The White House’s new science adviser says: nothing. The science disagrees.

No need to stock up or disinfect your groceriesGrocery stores are open because they are essential businesses, but we still need to limit our time out of the house.

Opinion | The coronavirus is testing us allOne of America’s true strengths is our ability to summon unity and collective confidence when facing an external threat.

Coronavirus Symptoms: Defining Mild, Moderate And SevereThese designations are often used to describe a patient's COVID-19 symptoms. At this stage of the outbreak, there aren't standard definitions, but there are preliminary guidelines.

Flatten the curve - COVID-19These guidelines are intended to help Flatten the Curve with the COVID19 outbreak, to help limit spread and reduce the load on hospitals and other healthcare.

Flattening A Pandemic's Curve: Why Staying Home Now Can Save LivesFrom school closures to event cancellations, the disruptions are real — and vital. It's all to slow the spread of coronavirus so hospitals don't get so overwhelmed that they can't treat the sickest.

The Dos and Don’ts of ‘Social Distancing’Experts weigh in on whether you should cancel your dates, dinner parties, and gym sessions.

Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented by US Cities During the 1918-1919 Influenza PandemicContext A critical question in pandemic influenza planning is the role nonpharmaceutical interventions might play in delaying the temporal effects of a pandemic, reducing the overall and peak attack rate, and reducing the number of cumulative deaths. Such measures could potentially provide valuable...

News Literacy ProjectThe News Literacy Project works with educators and journalists to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what to trust.

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