Hard times Mihai Sularea I am living in history, the kind history that will be written about and wondered about; and I wonder now, what will I tell my grandchildren about what life [...]
Days behind the walls Julija Mazej When the first news about the new coronavirus in China broke, I was occupied with my project in Rome and had, admittedly few concerns about the [...]
Stuck Between Sweden and Germany Lorenz Wirth All non-essential work at the Center for Infectious Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, has ground to a halt. I know [...]
Lockdown in Athens Magdalini Alexandridi The first Covid-19 patients in Italy were detected at the end of January 2020. Although we all knew about the viral outbreak that had [...]
Suddenly trapped in a cage far away from family and friends Chiara Aloise When I moved in December from Florence in Italy to Utrecht in the Netherlands to start a PhD in Molecular [...]
Diary of a PhD student in the Netherlands: COVID-19 & vaccines Sonia Marquez Martinez 6th March 2020, 08.48. I am sitting in my apartment in Amsterdam and I log on to the Johns [...]
“When the craic is over” Hauke Weiß The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the life of almost every person on the planet. In Dublin, restrictions of public life have been tight [...]
The dark side and the bright side of the confinement Adriana Loverre Confined for weeks, France kept adopting additional measures to contain the pandemic. Fortunately, the number of [...]
“This chronicle is not a story of definitive victory…” —Albert Camus, The Plague Maria Soultsioti “There have been as many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars [...]
April 2020: Turbulent times, intense feelings Xavier Martiáñez Vendrell Back in 1573 and 1574, during the Eighty Years’ War (also known as the Dutch War for Independence), the city [...]
A journey into a world you have never known: A COVID-19 diary from a young virologist in Austria. Zsofia Keszei “As Franklin P Jones said, experience is the marvelous thing that [...]
Lockdown. A word I’ve never heard before… Coralie Guy Last September, I left France to start a PhD in Immunology in Ireland. Never would I have imagined witnessing such [...]
“L’odeur de la pandémie”: The scent of pandemia? Alix Spahn The pungent, ticklish smell of disinfectant became a routine part of the laboratory center’s entrance procedure. [...]
“Lucky” During a Lockdown? Pau Ribó Molina The first news of a SARS virus outbreak in China seemed very far away from the Netherlands. Nevertheless, frequent updates were provided [...]
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