Right around the time in mid-March when Lehigh University moved to remote learning and researchers began to shut down on-campus labs, Nelson Tansu, the Daniel E. ’39 and Patricia M. Smith Endowed Chair Professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), received an email from Dr. Christopher Roscher, an anesthesiologist at St. Luke’s…
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc with the nation’s food supply and economy, one in seven adults between the ages of 50 and 80 already had trouble getting enough food because of cost or other issues, a new poll finds. The percentage who said they’d experienced food insecurity in the past year was even…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageWorkers at a crematorium at Xilotepec Cemetery bringing the body of a Covid-19 victim to be cremated on Friday in Mexico City. Cases soar past four million worldwide, and cautionary reopening tales emerge. Worldwide, the officially reported number of coronavirus cases has soared above four million people across 177…
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BERLIN — As the wave of coronavirus infections broke over Europe in March, causing reserves of medical supplies to disappear, German authorities made a nationwide appeal: More safety masks were urgently needed. At Melitta, the company that pioneered the paper coffee filter, inspiration was close at hand. “The ergonomics of the thing, the fact that…
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LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Sunday that Britain would soon impose a mandatory quarantine on travelers arriving in the country by air to try to avert a new wave of coronavirus infections, signaling how cautious the country will be in relaxing its seven-week lockdown. Mr. Johnson offered no details about how the…
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Before the coronavirus, expectant mothers relied on support from family and friends to help them recover from painful deliveries and adapt to unpredictable life with a newborn. Now many parents have to go it alone and make gut-wrenching decisions: Is a home birth less risky? Who will take care of the kids if your partner…
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NEWARK — The calls for patients in cardiac arrest came in one after another. A 39-year-old man, followed by a 65-year-old, whose neighbor called 911 after getting no response when he rang the doorbell. Then a 52-year-old woman’s heart stopped, as did that of a 90-year-old, who had collapsed on her bedroom floor. The ambulances…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageDr. Robert Redfield, center, who oversees the C.D.C.; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, left, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Stephen Hahn, right, who leads the F.D.A., are all members of the coronavirus task force.Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Top U.S. health officials…
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BRUSSELS — As the coronavirus has hopscotched the world, a paradox has emerged: Rich nations are not necessarily better at fighting the crisis than poorer ones. In Europe, the disease has been burning through Britain, France and Italy, three of the continent’s four biggest economies. But smaller, poorer nations in Europe quickly imposed and enforced…
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When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how? According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes. “When people ask, ‘When will this end?,’ they are asking about the social ending,”…
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