Alexis C. Madrigal
staff writer @TheAtlantic | running @covid19tracking | book for @mcdbooks | VP @NAHJBayArea | Mexican, American, Earthseed | into zapatistas in cyberspace
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You Take Back All the Mean Things You Said About Microwaves
Of course people hate the microwave: it's an old technology, which reminds us that the gadget we love today will be tomorrow's dated artifact.
Trump Is Squandering the Best Hope for Coronavirus Testing
Experts were already divided on the right way to deploy rapid tests. Then the White House barged ahead.
Now What?
Donald Trump says he tested positive for the coronavirus.
COVID Tracking Project Media Briefings
A sign-up form for reporters who want to be notified about briefings for learning how to use the COVID-19 data the project produces. Spots are limited.
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We get a lot of requests from reporters for help with (ever more complex) @COVID19Tracking data, so we're going to start hosting some small briefings. If you're interested, you can sign up here
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Vaccine Chaos Is Looming
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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Important story by @sarahzhang evaluating the logistical complexities of distributing the vaccines in development.
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Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: ‘Take a Hike’
The nation’s top public-health expert addresses political interference in the COVID-19 response, but urges Americans to focus on the winter ahead.
The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
A New Era of Coronavirus Testing Is About to Begin
A newly authorized test promises to double America’s monthly testing capacity, thanks in part to a huge purchase by the Trump administration. Can the test deliver?
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The files had barely been uploaded when the scale of Abbott's new rapid test was revealed. Is it what we've been waiting for?
Here's what @michaelmina_lab said: "This is the 'type' of test that we've been waiting for, but may not be 'the' test.
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'Radical' Coronavirus Testing Plan Could Offer A 'Return To Normal,' Journalist Says
Atlantic journalist Alexis Madrigal says millions of at-home saliva tests for the coronavirus could be the key to a safe reopening — even if they are less accurate than the traditional PCR tests.
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Did this interview with @nprfreshair about the potential of rapid testing to help bring back normal life
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Abbott's Fast, $5, 15-Minute, Easy-to-Use COVID-19 Antigen Test Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization; Mobile App Displays Test Results to Help Our Return to Daily Life; Ramping Production to 50 Million Tests a Month
/PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its...
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This is pretty big (and good) news. They are promising ~50 million~ tests a month by early Oct. For comparison, the country has run roughly 75 million tests *total* so far.
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Weekend Poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Richard Brautigan's 1967 hallucination of a (creepy, beautiful) world of machine-human love
The Way Out
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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This is the first hopeful story we’ve gotten to write since March. It’s 7500 words about the huge, fraught plans to return the country to something like normalcy through massive amounts of cheap, fast testing.
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The Atlantic Tech Canon
Fifty essential works about technology that you need to know
Blog | Counting COVID-19 Tests: How States Do It, How We Do It, and What’s Changing
The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.
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This post by @karaschechtman is a powerhouse of thinking about the complexities of testing data. It details a policy change at @COVID19Tracking, but it's also an incredible research document that reflects hundreds of hours of distributed effort.
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The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
While people of all cultures experience sleep paralysis in similar ways, the specific form and intensity it takes varies by culture
How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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Of course, @edyong209’s vivisection of our present state is masterful and precise and harrowing.
This graf, though. Damn.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… pic.twitter.com/yqA4SnwM9k
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James Baldwin Was Right All Along
The writer and activist has the painful, powerful words for this political moment. America just needs to heed them.
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My always and forever hero.
His wisdom is unsurpassed all these years later.
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When the Nerds Go Marching In
How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection
Trump Is Waging a Losing War Against the Bad News of COVID-19
The novel coronavirus has not been deterred by President Donald Trump's continuing attempts to control the bad news it generates.
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> @DrNancyM_CDC should be lauded for her early warnings, not silenced. She told Americans to prepare for disruption when there were *20* confirmed cases.
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Who took down the CDC’s coronavirus data? The agency itself.
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This is a really good story on what happened with hospitalization data.
It reflects what we’ve encountered over and over: different components of the Federal government trying to do the right thing, but moving with devastating lack of coordination.
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