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Mihika Basu

Mihika Basu

Mihika Basu has spent a decade and some reporting on education, health, science, and the environment. She is Senior Editor with MEA Worldwide. Mihika loves watching horror movies and stalking cats on Instagram in her spare time. Write to her at mihika.b@meawwworld.com

Do dark personalities prefer dark characters? People who like fictional villains may share some traits, says study

Individuals who score high for psychopathy and Machiavellianism are more likely to report that they enjoy, identify, and empathize with villainous characters, suggests analysis
Jan 27, 2021

Who is Rochelle Walensky? Incoming CDC chief warns of ‘dark weeks’ and 500,000 Covid-19 deaths in US by mid-Feb

Rochelle Walensky's projection comes even as experts have warned that the UK coronavirus variant will likely become the dominant strain in the US by March and worsen the pandemic
Jan 18, 2021

Andrew Cuomo slams US for negligence, says UK's mutant Covid variant is ‘getting on a plane and flying to JFK’

120 countries demand that before people get on a flight in the UK to come to their country they have to test negative for coronavirus, but the US does not require one
Dec 21, 2020

Joe Biden WILL make Americans wear masks for first 100 days in office as he lays out plans to halt Covid-19 surge

The president-elect has asked Dr Anthony Fauci to serve as chief medical adviser and to be part of his coronavirus response team
Dec 4, 2020

Oregon, New Mexico issue lockdown orders as Covid-19 model predicts US deaths may nearly double by March 2021

While Oregon has announced a two-week ‘freeze,’ a 'stay at home' order has been imposed in New Mexico
Nov 14, 2020

Wildlife populations have fallen by alarming 68% average in 46 years due to rampant human activity: WWF report

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report 2020 sounds the alarm for global biodiversity with a comprehensive overview of the state of the natural world through the Living Planet Index (LPI)
Sep 11, 2020

Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in North Carolina, experts predict floods, tornadoes and storm surges

There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along portions of the immediate coastline and adjacent waterways of northeastern South Carolina and the North Carolina coast
Aug 4, 2020

Black people three times more likely to be killed than white people during contact with US police, finds study

Rates of police-related fatalities vary in the US and some metros have death rates 9 times than those of other cities
Jun 24, 2020

China hails its swift response to coronavirus, says it wasted no time in informing WHO, US and other nations

China says the 'baseless accusation' that the country concealed epidemic information and death figures is a 'calculated slur' on the Chinese
Jun 8, 2020

Coronavirus has killed over 100,000 in the US, nearly three times more than the UK in second position

Covid-19 has also killed more people than the AIDS epidemic did from 1981 through 1989 in the US
May 28, 2020

Fierce hurricane season expected to be 60% above normal could threaten US fight against coronavirus: Experts

The combination of several climate factors is driving the strong likelihood for above-normal activity in the Atlantic this year, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
May 25, 2020

Move to cancel coronavirus study grant sets 'dangerous precedent', interferes with science, say 77 US Nobel laureates

The research on coronaviruses and other infectious agents focused on the transmission of viruses from animal hosts to human beings. The grant to EcoHealth Alliance was abruptly terminated by the NIH
May 25, 2020

44% Republicans believe Bill Gates will use coronavirus vaccine to implant microchips and track people: Poll

The survey also found that 19% of Democrats, 24% of independents, 44% of Trump voters and 50% of Americans who watch Fox News believe in this conspiracy theory
May 24, 2020

The Lancet denies publishing December report on coronavirus in Wuhan that Trump claims WHO ignored

Trump's letter to WHO alleged that the organization had 'consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier including reports from the Lancet medical journal'
May 20, 2020

Coronavirus deaths can be reduced by making recovered patients work on frontline in high-risk settings: Study

'Shield immunity' strategy may help reduce deaths from 71,000 to 58,000 while an enhanced plan can cuts deaths to 20,000, say experts
May 8, 2020

Trump says leaked report predicting 3,000 deaths each day by June is 'fake news'

The projections, based on government modeling and compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also forecast about 200,000 new COVID-19 cases daily by the end of May
May 5, 2020

Trump claims he's seen proof COVID-19 originated in Wuhan lab despite US intel saying virus isn’t manmade

The US intelligence community is examining 'emerging information and intelligence' to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan
May 1, 2020

Deadlier outbreaks could follow coronavirus pandemic if people don't stop destroying nature, say experts

Rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, infrastructure development and exploitation of wild species have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the spillover of diseases from wildlife to people
Apr 30, 2020

Nearly half of global workforce is at risk of losing livelihoods due to coronavirus pandemic, warns ILO

Almost 1.6 billion informal economy workers, accounting for 76% of informal employment worldwide, are significantly impacted by the lockdown measures
Apr 30, 2020

Coronavirus may co-circulate in fall with flu, says Trump's new blueprint putting onus on states to test people

The document states that the federal government will 'act as a supplier of last resort'
Apr 28, 2020