4. The Politics of Health: Public Health & Misinformation

Herbal remedies pose both direct and indirect risks to patients, Dr. Edzard Ernst of the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter.

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The coronavirus pandemic is causing plenty of anxiety and panic. The difference between...

Coronavirus and collective stress around the world. Why is this moment so anxiety-producing and how can we stay resilient in the face of it?

Robin Wright interviews social psychologists about the toll that isolation to slow the spread of the coronavirus is taking, and could take, on solitary individuals.

This focus is considered critical during the coronavirus outbreak as most employees are being asked to stay at home and away from others in this era of physical distancing

Bill Gates had previously said a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in 18 months.

Many health care workers are barely keeping it together in the Covid-19 fight. They are anxious and afraid. We need to protect their mental health.

How the coronavirus travels through the air has become one of the most divisive debates in this pandemic.

While the rest of Europe imposes severe restrictions on public life and closes borders and businesses, Sweden is taking a more relaxed approach to the coronavirus outbreak.

These early estimates give an indication of the fatality ratio across the spectrum of COVID-19 disease and show a strong age gradient in risk of death.

Medical experts are warning Canadians not to believe the hype after a hidden camera investigation revealed a Winnipeg acupuncturist was selling an herbal tea that purports to prevent COVID-19. Health Canada has not approved any product to prevent, treat or cure the illness.

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But he has raised his estimate of the virus's reproduction number, which implies a lower fatality rate than his research group initially assumed.

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An online furor over whether it’s safe to use the fever reducer reveals how people are sharing incomplete—and sometimes bad—information.

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We need to be thinking about nursing homes, not schools. Hospitals, not planes.

One reason seems to revolve around the number of tests a country conducts. But differences in demographic and political issues could be factors

Here's how the immune system responds when a person catches Covid-19 - and what that means for treatment.

Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.

The persistent myth can be put to bed.