Issue # 292 _ June 2020
Cover
- The reality of data
- Mapping and systematizing COVID-19 data is crucial to controlling the disease in Brazil By Redação
- Natural guests
- Abundant viruses contribute to the genetic diversity of life on Earth and may have emerged four times throughout the planet's history By Ricardo Zorzetto
- Brazil begins testing
- To better understand the spreading pandemic, research initiatives aim to increase the scale of COVID-19 diagnoses throughout the country By Yuri Vasconcelos
- The size of the pandemic
- Lag times in case reporting can hurt government efforts to contain spread of COVID-19 By Christina Queiroz
- The child enigma
- Researchers are trying to unravel why so few children contract COVID-19 and why some of those who do develop a severe inflammation of the blood vessels By Frances Jones
- Predicting the course of epidemics
- Mathematical modeling of infectious disease, a science perfected over the last 250 years, is helping guide the COVID-19 response through uncertainties By Carlos Fioravanti
- Sergio Machado Rezende: Together against COVID-19
- The physicist is one of the coordinators of the Scientific Committee for the Fight against Coronavirus in the Northeast, which advises the region's governors By Marcos Pivetta
- Restoring trust
- In the midst of the pandemic a new study measures high rates of confidence in science By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
- Calculating in the dark
- Creativity helps scientists predict the economic impacts of an unprecedented crisis By Diego Viana
- Research during the quarantine
- By Redação
