HIV, which was first identified as the virus behind AIDS in 1983, was also considered a pandemic. The human immunodeficiency virus severely damages the cells in your immune system and weakens your ability to fight everyday infections and disease. In the past 40 years, it’s killed 35 million...
Past pandemic outbreaks have typically originated from animal viruses before crossing over to humans. These can spread rapidly around the world because people do not have the immunity needed to fight the new infection. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, the sixth pandemic declared in...
So, deadly viruses like SARS does not spread as widely nor as fast. COVID-19 is not as deadly as we think, but highly infectious. During the 2009 flu season, tens of million were infected in the United States, but the mortality rate was 0.1% to 0.2%. The world was very scared at ...
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(research also shows that 50 minutes is about as long as you can expect to hold someone’s productive attention anyway). The survey was a win-win: Workers got the emotional release of venting (always a plus) and fewer meetings. “I’d like to hope that that’s why we do most of ...
As the pandemic(疫情) seemed to get worse, I couldn’t stop worrying what the following weeks and months might be like. I sometimes looked___the window of our neighbor’s house. Our kitchen was always lit up(点亮), but our neighbor hardly___the light. I wanted to...
While everything around the world is being canceled or postponed, something that cannot be postponed is childbirth. Pregnancy is difficult, period. Expecting mothers are finding it even more difficult to plan and cope with the pandemic going on right now. There is so much uncertainty and the ...
(2022·江西·模拟预测)Whether it's the slow drifting apart from a childhood friend, the sudden, sharp distance created by a disagreement, or one of the many relationships that have quietly fallen away during the pandemic, losing someone that you thought would always be in your life is deeply...
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola pandemic pals, I was thinking about Superman today.
We are all the same people we were four years ago, or before the pandemic completely changed our circumstances. And try as we might, that sameness will stay with us despite what we think are transformative realizations. Win or lose, we remain the same. Now what? I was always, well, fa...