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The United States needs a Continuity of the Economy plan to ensure we can reconstitute the economy in the wake of a devastating cyberattack, argue experts including researchers from Arizona State University.

“It’s kind of hard to imagine it getting a lot faster than it is right now, because it is transmitting really fast right now,” said Dr. Joshua LaBaer, director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. “But there is some evidence that Thanksgiving didn’t help things.”

Nadya Bliss, the executive director of the Global Security Initiative at ASU, says people spreading misinformation online are often doing it unintentionally. She says there are several red flags and things to consider as you scroll through social media feeds.

A large percentage of people with COVID-19 lose some sense of smell. ASU researchers are working with the University of Florida and Pennsylvania State on a way to use fast, cheap scratch-and-sniff technology to provide early detection of the disease. 

In a new study, ASU researcher Michael Lynch and his colleagues demonstrate that DNA mutation itself may represent only a fraction the health-related havoc caused by mutagens.