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As much of Europe imposed severe restrictions on public life last month to stem the spread of the coronavirus, one country stood out. Sweden didn’t go into lockdown or impose strict social-distancing policies……

4月13日，美国参议院国土安全委员会主席约翰逊宣布，将有调查小组对包括新冠病毒起源、美国政府的回应以及世卫组织的角色等进行调查。4月14日，调查工作组组长托德和7名议员发函给谭德塞……

The COVID-19 crash comes suddenly. In early March, the 37-year-old writer F. T. Kola began to feel mildly ill, with a fever and body aches. To be safe, she isolated herself at home in San Francisco. Life continued apace for a week, until one day she tried to load her dishwasher and felt strangely exhausted……

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first diagnostic test with a home collection option for COVID-19. Specifically, the FDA re-issued the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) COVID-19 RT-PCR Test……

The UK has today announced another 828 deaths from the coronavirus today, taking Britain’s total number of victims to 17,337. Officials diagnosed 4,301 more people with the virus in the past 24 hours, marking the lowest increase in confirmed cases……

你没有读错。今天讨论的题目就叫”新冠病毒死者死于什么？”当然死于病毒感染了，难道还有其他凶手不成？在听到德国病理学家和法医学家波舍尔教授（Klaus Püschel）的论证之前，我也一直这么想当然来着……

The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type. New York may have a deadlier strain imported from Europe, compared to less deadly viruses elsewhere in the United States……

Criticized for refusing to lock down, Sweden’s top health official says herd immunity is inevitable and took credit for the slowing of coronavirus numbers.”According to our modelers, we are starting to see……

The sudden outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally with more than 1,300,000 patients diagnosed and a death toll of 70,000. Current genomic survey data suggest that single nucleotide variants (SNVs) are abundant……