A Scientist Persuaded Italy to Exempt Vape Shops From COVID-19 Lockdown
Italy has seen the worst outbreak of COVID-19 outside of China, after cases first appeared in the Lombardy region but quickly spread to other...
Association of initial e-cigarette and other tobacco product use with subsequent cigarette smoking in adolescents: a cross-sectional, matched control study
This study assessed whether initiating e-cigarette use increases the uptake of cigarette smoking in US adolescents compared with behavioural and synthetic controls.
Data come from...
China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan – and US biosafety experts warned in 2017 that a virus could ‘escape’...
The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is the only lab in China designated for studying dangerous pathogens like SARS and Ebola
Ahead of its...
Should you shame friends into cancelling their vacations? (And 17 other urgent questions)
Should you attend religious gatherings? Should children visit their grandparents? Should you go to a restaurant? An infectious disease specialist weighs in.
When the World...
Are there any libertarians in a pandemic?
The kind of people who say ‘if you like freedom so much, why don’t you move to Somalia?’ think that libertarians have been “owned”...
