I have bled out during emergency surgery and been revived by the expert trauma and transplant team who raced into my operating room. I have had liter upon liter of donated blood transfused into my grey lifeless body. I survived months on a ventilator in an intensive care unit. I have had my lungs fill… Read More: I’ve been on a ventilator before, so I’d like to… »
As a recruiter, Emily Yeager greets a lot of people every day. But there’s one handshake she’ll never forget. It was early 2010, during the height of the swine flu outbreak — the colloquial term for what was then a novel variant of the H1N1 influenza virus — and Yeager had a meeting with a… Read More: Swine flu survivors recount terrifying pandemic as coronavirus concerns grow »
By Debora MacKenzie Medical imaging is being used to work out how the coronavirus affects the bodyFeng Dapeng/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images For yet another week, covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has remained poised just short of becoming a pandemic. As case counts stabilise in China, and don’t take off elsewhere, the big question is: will… Read More: Why coronavirus superspreaders may mean we avoid a deadly pandemic »