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COVID-19

President Biden holds a meeting.

Everyman Joe Biden catches COVID, just like everybody else

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

An illustration by Erik English.

Gain-of-function research can’t deliver pandemic predictions. Are there alternatives?

By Simon Wain-Hobson | Biosecurity

The hands of a monkeypox patient.

How big of a deal is monkeypox?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Extraterrestial Highway. Credit: Rachel. Accessed via Pixabay. Pixabay License. Free for commercial use.

Survey: Americans love conspiracy theories, and that’s dangerous for everyone

By Matthew A. Baum, Katherine Ognyanova | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A COVID-19 test.

How a dispute over sharing coronavirus genomes is threatening a vital tool for tracking variants

By Jeremy P. Kamil | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

The A1 Verse: Choose your own pandemic

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Special Topics

Wheat. Credit: Rawpixel. CC0 1.0.

Global hunger crisis looms as war in Ukraine sends food prices soaring

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

WHO headquarters

Six paths forward to a “pandemic treaty”

By Daniel Gerstein | Biosecurity, Opinion

The origins of SARS-CoV-2: still to be determined

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

An Army officer puts on personal protective equipment.

Biodefense experts to Congress: The United States is still unprepared for pandemic and bioweapons threats

By | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Even as omicron infections trend down, long COVID remains a threat to the military

By Yong-Bee Lim | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

The Academia Sinica campus.

A lab assistant involved in COVID-19 research in Taiwan exposed 110 people after becoming infected at work

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies