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Q+A
Coronavirus vaccine won't emerge overnight
Published April 16, 2020
Supriya Munshaw, an expert in the commercialization of early-stage technologies at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, discusses the process of developing a vaccine for COVID-19
A road sign reads 'Stay Home'
COVID-19
U.S. hasn't 'found the edges of the outbreak'
Published April 10, 2020
Caitlin Rivers from the Center for Health Security discusses how well interventions are working to slow the spread of COVID-19 and what the road ahead looks like in the U.S.
Flags of EU nations in a face mask
Q+A
COVID-19 and a splintered European Union
Published April 10, 2020
SAIS expert Matthias Matthijs discusses the difficult road ahead for EU countries, where vastly different outbreak burdens have led to vastly different responses
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
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
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
Illustration of a brain with leaves and greenery
Q+A
Managing mental health during a pandemic
Published April 6, 2020
Bloomberg School professor Dani Fallin discusses the psychological and emotional challenges that arise during social distancing
APL biologist Tom Mehoke reviews the DNA sequencing analysis of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, at the molecular diagnostics laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Q+A
The role of genomic sequencing in combating COVID-19
Published April 2, 2020
Molecular biologists Peter Thielen and Thomas Mehoke are rapidly sequencing the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19