SARS-CoV-2

By Alex Berezow, PhD; Josh Bloom, PhD; Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA; and Thom Golab The conventional wisdom regarding COVID-19 changes every other week.

If you read the New York Times, I have a very serious question for you: Why?

There's something irresistible about conspiracy theories.

Two drugs, chloroquine (CQ), and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are all over the news because both drugs are being extensively studied for their antiviral potential against coronavirus.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

It says something profoundly troubling about the times in which we live that Americans are using a genuine public health crisis to sow division, stir animosity, and score political points. But that's where we find ourselves in 2020.

Perhaps other than virologists, few people would have predicted that a tiny microbe would dominate global headlines for several months in 2020. It goes without saying that the coronavirus has kept us quite busy.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures.

David Gura, an MSNBC anchor I've never heard of, apparently has a TV show called "Up." And, like most cable TV show hosts, he has opinions.

Before modern study of microbiology, how diseases spread was essentially unknown.