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Why Some Flus Are Deadliest in Young Adults
The first flu you get matters for the rest of your life.
Chinese Americans Have Seen This Before
The lockdowns, equipment shortages, and overburdened hospitals feel all too familiar.
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Sarah Zhang
For Chinese Americans, what's happening now in the U.S. feels awfully familiar. The social isolation, the overwhelmed hospitals, the equipment shortages, the deaths—it's all happened before
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Trapped at Home With People You Met on Craigslist
No one answers an ad for roommates expecting to end up quarantined with them.
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Sarah Zhang
In normal times, this would be a terrible reality show but now this is just terrible pandemic reality
(A very good @elainejgodfrey piece on quarantining with roommates)
theatlantic.com/family/archive… pic.twitter.com/Dl8dLodJVc
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‘War Zone’: Ambulances in N.Y.C. Are Now as Busy as on Sept. 11
With coronavirus cases mounting, emergency workers are making life-or-death decisions about who goes to a hospital, and who is left behind.
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Sarah Zhang
This is chilling: “Three weeks ago, the paramedics said, most coronavirus calls were for respiratory distress or fever. Now the same types of patients, after having been sent home from the hospital, are experiencing organ failure and cardiac arrest”
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America Needs Plasma From COVID-19 Survivors Now
People who have recovered from the disease have antibodies that might help those still suffering from it.
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Sarah Zhang
I wrote about the race to find COVID-19 survivors—because their blood might be a treatment for current patients
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America’s Hospitals Have Never Experienced Anything Like This
If they run out of space, where will all the sick people go?
Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
There are advantages to having biotech executives as neighbors.
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Sarah Zhang
I was surprised to learn a small county in Colorado was planning to offer serological testing for COVID-19 to everyone.
Then, I realized it was Telluride. Then, I realized the biotech execs whose company is making the tests live there
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What It Really Means to Cancel Elective Surgeries
To make room for coronavirus patients, hospitals are delaying procedures that would make major differences in people’s lives.
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Sarah Zhang
I spoke to patients whose "elective" surgeries are canceled because of coronavirus
Note that "elective" really doesn't mean optional here. It's everything from gallbladder removal to brain surgery, and a lot of patients are having their lives disrupted
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Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired
To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.
Deep Clean, Then Clean Again
What exactly does it mean when schools and businesses close to “deep clean” because of the coronavirus?
What Will You Do If You Start Coughing?
“Stay home” is not a sufficient plan.
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Sarah Zhang
This is so key. The fixation on fatality rates obscures the severity of coronavirus. Its hospitalizations rates are way, way higher than seasonal flu
theatlantic.com/health/archive… pic.twitter.com/EU55mfg9yZ
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Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing
“I don’t know what went wrong,” a former CDC chief told The Atlantic.
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Sarah Zhang
On Monday, U.S. was promising capacity for a million coronavirus tests by the end of the week. As of today, the number of Americans tested is still in the...thousands
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Why It’s So Hard to Stop Touching Your Face
As the coronavirus starts spreading in the U.S., our small everyday habits are suddenly permeated with new danger.
A Bold and Controversial Idea for Making Breast Milk
The obsession with breastfeeding has inspired a start-up to make human milk outside the human body.
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Sarah Zhang
I wrote about lab-grown breast milk as maybe the logical endpoint for a society that tells mothers "breast is best" while also making it incredibly hard to actually breastfeed
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Should 'broken' genes be fixed? My daughter changed my thinking
Our second daughter arrived in this world with a shock of white hair. Her albinism took her family on a journey of discovery.
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Sarah Zhang
"At the time, our decision to do genetic testing was reflexive." — @ethanjweiss's reflection about his daughter's diagnosis of albinism is really worth reading
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A Long-Lost Data Trove Uncovers California’s Sterilization Program
Some of the 20,000 victims are still alive today.
If You Want a Marriage of Equals, Then Date as Equals
Why are many dating practices a throwback to an earlier era?
How Hospitals Changed Their Approach to Stillbirth
Grieving patients are encouraged to see and hold their stillborn infants—and in some cases even bring them home.
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Sarah Zhang
"I sometimes tell my students that if you can find a textbook from the 1970s… whatever it says, do the opposite"
Over a few decades, hospitals have completely changed how they handle stillbirths
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After 2,000 Years, These Seeds Have Finally Sprouted
Six date seeds as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls are now flourishing as trees on a kibbutz.
The New Coronavirus: A Very 2020 Epidemic
New diseases are mirrors that reflect how a society works—and where it fails.
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Sarah Zhang
"'I'm not as worried by the disease as from people’s reactions to it,' she told me over Skype. 'People are freaking out.'" — @edyong209 on the coronavirus, a very 2020 epidemic
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