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Nurses load a dead body into a Red Cross wagon during 1918 Spanish flu outbreak
Q+A
How pandemics shape society
Published April 9, 2020
Sociologist and historian Alexandre White discusses how past pandemics, such as the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, have reverberated long after the disease stops spreading
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COVID-19
Twitter data gives social distancing insights
Published April 9, 2020
Researchers are using Twitter's publicly available location data to determine how well the residents of each state are adhering to social distancing guidelines
School desk
After COVID-19
Recalibrating the American educational system
Published April 7, 2020
When assessing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the nation's public school system, education reformer Bob Balfanz sees a light on the horizon
A New York City street is nearly empty
Q+A
U.S. faces long road to reopening
Published April 7, 2020
Crystal Watson, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, discusses what the nation needs to do to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic safely and begin transitioning back to normalcy
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Hopkins at Home
Lectures, livestreams, and more—no matter where you are
Published April 7, 2020
New online resource provides access to live sessions with faculty as well as recorded lectures and presentations
Nurse in PPE looks out window
Q+A
Nurses face tough decisions, moral distress
Published April 6, 2020
Nursing ethics expert Cynda Rushton discusses the conditions and decisions encountered daily by nurses wrestling with the health care challenges posed by COVID-19
Warehouse
Q+A
COVID-19 and global supply chains
Published April 6, 2020
Goker Aydin, an operations management expert at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, discusses how the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the exchange of goods around the world
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COVID-19 misinformation claiming to be from Johns Hopkins circulates widely
Published April 3, 2020
Message billed as 'excellent summary' of coronavirus information has no identifiable connection to Johns Hopkins, has been labeled 'misattributed' by Snopes
A member of the Italian army guards Piazza Campo de Fiori, which appears almost completely deserted amid the coronavirus outbreak
COVID-19 study examines how people respond to stay-at-home orders
Published April 2, 2020
After learning stay-at-home orders would be in place for less time than expected, Italians said they were more likely to comply with the measures
Roman Coliseum
Q+A
COVID-19's impact in Italy and Europe
Published March 31, 2020
Filippo Taddei, who teaches at SAIS Europe's Bologna campus in Italy, discusses the COVID-19 outbreak from the European perspective