Friday 20 March 2020

How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care

A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge.


We Need More Ventilators, But We Also Need People Who Know How to Use Them


Do we have enough respiratory therapists?


A Message From Italy

It’s going to get worse. Much worse.




Venezuela’s Medical System Has Already Collapsed.

What will happen when the coronavirus hits?




The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming


Will the world now wake up to the global threat of zoonotic diseases?


Seeding a Dark World with New Life


Greet the specter of death by defiantly planting a life-sustaining vegetable garden.


At The Margins

On writing in, and appreciating, books.


The Chinese Wild-Animal Industry and Wet Markets Must Go

Should have been banned long ago.


Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How


A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.


Monday 16 March 2020