Biden vs. Trump: What a Difference Two Years Make for Treating COVID

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July 22, 2022

Health Care Biden vs. Trump: What a Difference Two Years Make for Treating COVID In a tale of two COVIDs, two presidents' contrasting COVID experiences illustrate the moonshot-caliber medical achievements that let many patients be treated at home instead of in an ICU By Monique Brouillette

Public Health What Are the Risks of COVID and Treatments Available to President Biden? An infectious disease doctor explains what Biden's medical team will be doing to treat the President's case of COVID By Patrick Jackson,The Conversation US

Climate Change Large Majority of Americans Blame Warming for Extreme Weather As Americans have increasingly experienced extreme weather events, their perception of climate change has shifted, survey results show By Andres Picon,E&E News

Weather What Is a Heat Dome? An atmospheric scientist explains how large, persistent bends in the jet stream can bake a region for days By William Gallus,The Conversation US

Climate Change The Slow Bake of Our Infrastructure As heat waves become longer and more common, communities have to prepare—and prepare to fail By Mikhail Chester

Animals Polar Bears That Persist A new subpopulation of Greenland polar bears offers insights into how this species might hang on as Arctic ice disappears. By Fionna M. D. Samuels,Tulika Bose | 03:26

Genetics 'Frog Skin' Cell Type Found in Mammal Mouths Salivary glands make unexpected use of tiny ionocytes, essential to frogs and fish By Joanna Thompson

Astronomy Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST's First Images Astronomers and the public alike are delighting in the glittering depths of the universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope By Fionna M. D. Samuels

Oceans What Does It Look Like when an Ecosystem Collapses? Kelp Can Show Us After a mass algal die-off in the Pacific, researchers used satellites, undergrads, artificial intelligence and people wading in tide pools figure out what was lost—and how it might come back By Andrew Robinson

Epidemiology People with Long COVID May Still Have Spike Proteins in Their Blood Possible biomarker for long COVID suggests some people with the condition never fully cleared the virus By Sasha Warren

FROM THE STORE The Science of Climate Change As evidence for human interference in the Earth's climate continues to accumulate, scientists have gained a better understanding of when, where and how the impacts of global warming are being felt. In this eBook, we examine those impacts on the planet, on human society and on the plant and animal kingdoms, as well as effective mitigation strategies including resourceful urban design and smart carbon policies. *Editor's Note: This Collector's Edition was published as Climate Change. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on tablet devices.

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