Paul Bisceglio
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The Vaccine News That Really Matters
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 134d 9 tweets
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." by 134d
The Third Coronavirus Surge Has Arrived
The Atlantic 138d 9 tweets
This week’s COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations make clear that the U.S. is once again sinking deeper into the pandemic.
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Paul Bisceglio This is where we are. Grateful as always for everything does. 138d
Trump Is Squandering the Best Hope for Coronavirus Testing
Alexis C. Madrigal, Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 144d 5 tweets
Experts were already divided on the right way to deploy rapid tests. Then the White House barged ahead.
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Paul Bisceglio The 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." by and 144d
The President Who Cried ‘Cure’
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 144d 4 tweets
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. " , sharp and essential 144d
Vaccine Chaos Is Looming
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 155d 19 tweets
The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.
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Paul Bisceglio I hadn't truly wrapped my mind around the long vaccine road ahead until I read this phenomenal story. 155d
The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 162d 23 tweets
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 , is profoundly interesting--a rare story that has influenced my understanding of the very basics of the pandemic. 162d
Why Everything Is Sold Out
The Atlantic 168d 8 tweets
The pandemic broke online shopping.
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Paul Bisceglio Among the many perfect little details in this story, 's failed quest to order curtain rods (*curtain rods*) especially gets me. 168d
America Is Being Pummeled by Disasters
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 187d 3 tweets
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 187d
The Way Out
Alexis C. Madrigal, Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 200d 66 tweets
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 Bisceglio Coronavirus testing is on the brink of a revolution. and , two of the most essential voices on testing, explain the plan that could change the course of this pandemic. This is a big one 200d
For Whom the Tok Tiks
Ian Bogost - The Atlantic 208d 3 tweets
TikTok could persist in many ways in America. None is good.
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Paul Bisceglio For anyone confused about TikTok: , courtesy of 208d
The Mister Rogers of YouTube Yoga
The Atlantic 263d 4 tweets
“Yoga With Adriene” is the only thing getting me through the pandemic.
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Paul Bisceglio My new fitness aspiration is to invite to any class I ever attend, so that I can laugh through the entire workout. 263d
So, What Can We Do Now?
The Atlantic 279d 5 tweets
A guide to staying safe this summer
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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. by 279d
We Live in a Patchwork Pandemic Now
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 286d 77 tweets
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?" on America's long road ahead is devastating and magnificent. 286d
A New Low in COVID-19 Data Standards
Alexis C. Madrigal, Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 293d 27 tweets
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 and has left me speechless. 293d
There’s Only One Way Out of This Mess
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 298d 7 tweets
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 298d
How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus Villain
The Atlantic 300d 10 tweets
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?" by 300d
The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This Confusing
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 307d 179 tweets
How to make sense of the many uncertainties in this rapidly unfolding crisis
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Paul Bisceglio The moment I finished reading this story was the clearest my mind has been all pandemic. by 307d
The Delicate Art of Disastertising
The Atlantic 313d 3 tweets
America's brands would like you to know we're all in this together.
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Paul Bisceglio Pivot to pandemic. by 313d
The Supermarket After the Pandemic
Ian Bogost - The Atlantic 319d 6 tweets
The coronavirus will change grocery stores, and probably not for the better.
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Paul Bisceglio The pandemic could turn grocery stores into shopping malls. explains how 319d
The Best Hopes for a Coronavirus Drug
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 328d 11 tweets
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 Bisceglio I'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. by 328d