Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. For months, public health guidance was clear: if you don't have to go out, don't. The goal was to slow the spread of coronavirus and "flatten the…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. Everybody’s got a lot of questions: Is it safe to go back to school? How about the skate park? My friend’s basement? In this article, we’re going…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. How can we know how much coronavirus is out there without massive testing? If we want to start sending people back to…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. Will contact tracing help ensure people’s safety as shelter-in-place orders are easing up throughout the world? The…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. When I wrote about the question "How Will We Know if Social Distancing Is Working?" on March 27, 2020, there had been 2,110 deaths from COVID-19 in…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. Why will it take so long to develop a vaccine against coronavirus? Let's figure this out together. Let's agree that our end goal…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. Are antibody tests the "golden ticket" the media is making them out to be? While Americans have been asked to shelter in…

Check out our entire series explaining the science involved in the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to receive our coronavirus update each week. How do scientists figure out how long the novel coronavirus remains infectious on surfaces? Just when you thought you had enough…