The car-model-making department at Skoda in Czechia has pivoted to making 3D-printed reusable face masks for health workers. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty)
How to suppress a second wave of infections
- Cases in Hubei province in China — ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak — have dropped to practically zero. and the region has started easing its extreme lockdown. Health authorities are watching for a second wave of infections, while deploying widespread testing and monitoring to keep it suppressed. (Nature | 7 min read)
- Researchers are making difficult — sometimes life-or-death — decisions about what to do about their research animals as laboratories are closed down owing to the coronavirus outbreak. Some are even taking them home — entomologist Maria Cramer and her partner are sharing their two-bedroom basement apartment with her two most important and most genetically diverse colonies of ladybirds. (Nature | 5 min read)
- Governments need to think twice before they suppress messages related to COVID-19, argues anthropologist Heidi Larson, who studies vaccine rumors. The nature of misinformation is not always clear-cut, and authorities risk undermining public trust, says Larson. (Nature | 5 min read)
- Didier Raoult is a prominent microbiologist who co-discovered gigantic ‘mimiviruses’, which are so large that they are visible under a light microscope. He’s also the source of controversial research touting the effects of chloroquine on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which gained prominence when it was promoted by US President Donald Trump. Pharmaceutical researcher Derek Lowe raises questions about the bold nature of Raoult’s claims and the unconventional human trial of the drug. (Science Translational Medicine blog | 6 min read)
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