• IHME Model Revised Again, Cutting Coronavirus Death Projection by Over 35 Percent in Days

    IHME Model Revised Again, Cutting Coronavirus Death Projection by Over 35 Percent in Days

    The researchers behind the University of Washington’s widely cited coronavirus model updated their projections for the second time this week, with death projections falling over 35 percent since Sunday and the U.S. peak moved to April 11. Death projections in the IHME model, which was used by the White House to inform a warning that …
  • IMHE Model Revised Again, Cutting Coronavirus Death Projection by Over 35 Percent in Days

    IMHE Model Revised Again, Cutting Coronavirus Death Projection by Over 35 Percent in Days

    The researchers behind the University of Washington’s widely cited coronavirus model updated their projections for the second time this week, with death projections falling over 35 percent since Sunday and the U.S. peak moved to April 11. Death projections in the IMHE model, which was used by the White House to inform a warning that …
  • How those creepy ‘War of the Worlds’ aliens came to life on Epix

    How those creepy ‘War of the Worlds’ aliens came to life on Epix

    It was no easy task creating the creepy half-organic/half-mechanized aliens in “War of the Worlds,” which wraps its first season  Sunday at 9 p.m. on Epix. “That [organic element] side of it came from the [series] writer Howard Overman, and we were left to develop it as a visual element,” says “War of the Worlds” …
  • Chinese Authorities Gagged Laboratories in December over Coronavirus-SARS Connection

    Chinese Authorities Gagged Laboratories in December over Coronavirus-SARS Connection

    China’s top medical authority issued a gag order after Wuhan labs sequencing coronavirus found it resembled the SARS virus that killed nearly 800 people in 2002-2003 back in late December, according to Chinese media. Caixin Global, a respected independent publication, reported that genomics laboratories sequenced the coronavirus by December 27, but were ordered by local …