Road deaths: why matters have only got worse over the past 100 years
Road crashes and deaths are a grim daily reality all over the world.
What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly
Every coronavirus infection starts with a virus particle, a spherical shell that protects a single long string of genetic material and inserts it into a human cell.
We gathered rich insights into child survival in Kenya by mapping patterns over 22 years
By Peter Macharia, Newton Int'l fellow at Lancaster University and Visting researcher, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme and Emelda Okiro, Head of Population Health Unit, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme…
Public health officers at the grave of a coronavirus fatality at the Langata cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya, April 16, 2020.
Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
The most obvious factor for the low death rates is the population age structure. Across multiple countries the risk of dying of Covid-19 for those aged 80 years or more is around a hundred times that of people in their twenties.
Covid-19 deaths in Brazil
How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer
Even if health officials had accurate pictures of the number of infections and deaths over time, they can’t just divide the number of deaths by March 15 by the number of infections by March 15. It can take weeks before an infected patient dies from Covid-19.