Media

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Selected Media:

• Numbers of the Year (Population Ageing and Taylor Swift) BBC Radio: More or Less, January 4, 2025

• How has life expectancy changed since the pandemic? Oxford Sparks Podcast, April 5, 2023

• Why are US Covid cases falling? BBC Radio: More or Less, February 26, 2021

• BBC2 TV News, September 29, 2020
  Jennifer Dowd reflects on the milestone of 1 million official COVID-19 global deaths.

• BBC More or Less - 'Record Covid Cases'
  Jennifer Dowd discusses the data around COVID-19 deaths in America

• BBC World Service- October 15, 2020
  "Should we learn to live with COVID-19?"

• Sky News - May 6, 2021: COVID-19: Putting pandemic precautions to the test

Print:

Opinion Pieces:

• Life expectancy improves in some countries after big drops in 2020- but US and others see further falls, The Conversation

• Is England's Covid roadmap the right way out of lockdown? The experts' view, The Guardian

• Why are COVID Cases Really Falling? Slate

• Does In-Person Schooling Contribute to COVID-19 Spread? The American Scientist

• Opinion: Why distancing and handwashing won't stop the spread of COVID-19 in schools, The Guardian

• Opinion: England's New Measures Aren't Enough to Prevent Soaring Covid-19 infections, The Guardian

• The Sturgis Bike Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19, Slate

General:

• Does catching COVID give you more immunity than being vaccinated? BBC More or Less

• So You’re Triple Vaxxed and Still Got Covid-Now What?, Slate

• A Guide to Mixed Vaccination Status Holidays, The Atlantic

• California, with strict mandates, has more COVID than Florida, Texas-Here’s Why, Newsweek

• You’re boosted! Now what? The Atlantic

• The most likely timeline for life to return to normal, The Atlantic

• “Nerdy Girl” Princeton alumni battle the COVID-19 “infodemic,” Princeton University

• U.S. COVID cases are down, but the virus isn't in retreat, Newsweek

• COVID cases fell in Donald Trump's last week as president. Here's the sad reason why, Newsweek

• One in 50 Americans Has COVID in Some Areas—Before New Variants Have Taken Hold, Newsweek

• U.S. health officials say they plan to stick with two-dose coronavirus regimen. Washington Post

• Europe in Meltdown as Covid Death Toll Soars and Progress Unravels, CNN

• ‘Nerdy Girls’ fight the COVID infodemic with facts – and friendliness, University of Oxford

• Fauci says no one wants to "Shut Down" Christmas over COVID, but this is a "Critical Time," Newsweek

• Christmas should be "postponed" to to avoid record number of Americans dying, Newsweek

• America's COVID deaths may be equivalent to a 9/11 everyday by Christmas, Newsweek

• As Americans Prepare to Gather for Thanksgiving, the World Watches with Dread and Disbelief, The Washington Post

• Despite Coronavirus Surge, European Schools Stay Open, The Wall Street Journal

• What Two Studies With Very Different Findings Can Tell Us About Voting in a Pandemic. Five Thirty Eight

• Opinion: Why distancing and handwashing won't stop the spread of COVID-19 in schools, The Guardian

• Central Europe, Spared in the Spring, Suffers as Virus Surges, The New York Times

• Sweden-style herd immunity approach to Covid-19 would be a "dangerous fallacy" with no basis in science, 80 experts warn in scathing letter. The Daily Mail

• Opinion: England's New Measures Aren't Enough to Prevent Soaring Covid-19 infections, The Guardian

• The Sturgis Bike Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19. Slate

• Central Europe Largely Avoided the First Coronavirus Wave. Why Are Cases Spiking Now? Time Magazine

• New Zealand's "Bubble Concept" is slowly letting people socialize again. Would it Work in America? Slate

• Italian coronavirus pressures and flattening the curve- an epidemiology expert explains, Word Economic Forum

• Are adults living with parents making the pandemic more deadly? New York Times

• Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard, Wired

• You Should Already Be in Lockdown, The Atlantic

• Why social distancing might last for some time, BBC Future

• Social distancing works but epidemic influenced by demographics, Euronews

• Lockdown of Recovering Italian Town Shows Effectiveness of Early Action, Wall Street Journal

• Coronavirus: UK's 'hospital deserts' that could be overwhelmed by cases, Sky news

• The Coronavirus is Sending Lots of Younger People to the Hospital, Buzzfeed

• Vuelta a una nueva normalidad segregada por edades, National Geographic

• The puzzle of coronavirus: a huge variation in rates of death and severe disease across the globe, The Sydney Morning Herald

• New analysis breaks down age-group risk for coronavirus--and shows millennials are not invincible, Stat News

• Why are more men than women dying of COVID? FiveThirtyEight

• What COVID-19 patients young and old can teach us about the coronavirus, Los Angeles Times

• Fixing Nursing-Home Death Traps Is Key to Europe’s Virus Fight, Bloomberg

• What Will the 2020 NFL Season Look Like? Super Rugby Might Give Us Clues, Newsweek

• How many have really been infected with coronavirus? I pricked my finger to help find out., Philadelphia Inquirer

• Europe Is Seeing a Surge in Coronavirus Cases. Are Tourists the Cause of the Increase? Time

• How many people has the coronavirus killed? Nature

• Coronavirus death toll reaches 1 million- how did we get here? New Scientist

• Tracking Patterns in the Pandemic, Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine