Soon COVID-19 vaccine makers will release early data from large clinical trials, and the results could be ambiguous.
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Paul Bisceglio"Keeping expectations measured will require understanding when a vaccine clears just one of many hurdles—it doesn’t have to be perfect, but it must be good enough."
theatlantic.com/health/archive… by @sarahzhang
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Experts were already divided on the right way to deploy rapid tests. Then the White House barged ahead.
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Paul BisceglioThe White House illnesses have "opened to public view an already ferocious debate among experts about the best way to defeat the pandemic—a fight with consequences that will outlast Trump’s symptoms."
theatlantic.com/health/archive… by @alexismadrigal and @yayitsrob
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Trump has found his latest silver bullet: antibody therapy.
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Paul Bisceglio" 'I call that a cure,' he said. 'It’s a cure,' he said again, defying whoever might have told him to please just say 'therapeutic' instead. "
@sarahzhang, sharp and essential
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The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.
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Paul Bisceglio"COVID-19 is a severe disease that should be taken seriously, but it’s not all that strange."
This, by @edyong209, is profoundly interesting--a rare story that has influenced my understanding of the very basics of the pandemic.
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Paul BisceglioAmong the many perfect little details in this story, @amandamull's failed quest to order curtain rods (*curtain rods*) especially gets me.
168d
Hurricane Laura, the strongest storm on record to strike Louisiana, is yet another calamity on top of wildfires, wind storms, and the pandemic.
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Paul Bisceglio"How long until the fall isn’t when 'life starts all over again,' but when life starts to fall apart?"
This is where we are now. By @yayitsrob
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The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers has a new plan to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
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Paul BisceglioCoronavirus testing is on the brink of a revolution.
@yayitsrob and @alexismadrigal, two of the most essential voices on testing, explain the plan that could change the course of this pandemic.
This is a big one
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Paul Bisceglio"Thinking about safety as binary isn’t going to cut it anymore. The key to responsibly reopening your life is understanding what makes you and those around you more or less safe at any given moment."
Stay safe out there, friends. theatlantic.com/health/archive… by @amandamull
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The coronavirus is hitting different parts of America in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.
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Paul Bisceglio"Collective actions are aided by collective experiences. What happens when that experience unravels?"
@edyong209 on America's long road ahead is devastating and magnificent.
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Virginia and possibly other states are combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This keeps Americans from understanding the pandemic.
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Paul Bisceglio"In at least one state, Virginia, senior officials are blending the results of two different types of coronavirus test in order to report a more favorable result to the public."
The latest from @alexismadrigal and @yayitsrob has left me speechless.
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America’s economy faces the same problem today it did two months ago: The country does not have enough tests to contain the virus.
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Paul Bisceglio“I can’t emphasize enough how much there is no plan for how to manage this response, let alone the recovery."
A hard message to read, from more essential reporting by @yayitsrob
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A popular joke about entitled white women is now a big pandemic meme.
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Paul Bisceglio"As the country takes its first steps toward reopening, the Karen meme raises the question: Is there any simple way for Americans to shame one another into keeping everyone safe?"
theatlantic.com/technology/arc… by @kait_tiffany
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If there is a way to stop COVID-19, it will be by blocking its proteins from hijacking, suppressing, and evading humans’ cellular machinery.
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Paul BisceglioI'm in awe of how calming it is simply to see this information cleanly and comprehensively laid out on the page. There's so much we don't know, but also so much we do.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv… by @sarahzhang
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