Covid-19 Outbreak at UNC-Chapel Hill Causes University to Abandon In-Person Classes

Mental Health and Covid-19: Hitting ‘Surge Capacity’ and Vacation Risks

After feeling energized in the early stages of the pandemic, science journalist Tara Haelle hit a wall. As she describes in a powerful new story for Elemental, suddenly she was unable to work, clean…

How to Avoid a Deadly Mix of Covid-19 and the Flu

There’s some potentially good news for the United…

What a Leading Epidemiologist Wants Americans to Know Right Now

It’s been a busy — and frustrating — time to be an epidemiologist. They are tasked with studying and controlling the spread of disease in a human population, but that hasn’t been easy to do during the pandemic, in part…

Optimizing Your Home for Pandemic Life

For most people with the privilege of working from home during the pandemic, life has become increasingly constrained by the walls of one’s own living space. As Emily Anthes, author of the book The Great Indoors, explains in a new Elemental story, indoor living…

Tracking Covid-19 Through Human Poop

In the U.S., severe testing delays and shortages have made it difficult to track the spread of Covid-19 in real time. Fortunately for researchers, there’s an alternative surveillance method, though it’s not quite as convenient as a nasal swab: As Troy Farah writes…