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Even if you’re feeling fine, you might be infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. John Lamparski/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images

April 30, 2020

Infected with the coronavirus but not showing symptoms? A physician answers 5 questions about asymptomatic COVID‑19

William Petri, University of Virginia

Your body can be infected and fight off SARS-CoV-2 without your ever noticing.

Mary Mallon, after being institutionalized on Brother Island in New York. Getty/Bettman

April 24, 2020

#TyphoidMary – now a hashtag – was a maligned immigrant who got a bum rap

Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University

TyphoidMary is shorthand today for those who defy social distancing orders. The real Typhoid Mary is perhaps the most prominent example in the US of the unknowing disease carrier.

Camp beds set up for travelers returning to Germany from China, who will be isolated for two weeks to make sure they don’t have coronavirus. YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images

February 3, 2020

Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

Leslie S. Leighton, Georgia State University

Even before people understood how germs spread disease, they tried to isolate the sick to keep them from infecting others.

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Katherine A. Foss
Director of the School of Journalism & Strategic Media, Professor of Media Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
Leslie S. Leighton
Visiting Lecturer of History, Georgia State University
William Petri
Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia

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