The Atlantic
America Has Lost the Plot on COVID
8 min read · 2021-11-01 · We’re avoiding the hardest questions about living with the coronavirus long term.
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nature
This COVID-vaccine designer is tackling vaccine hesitancy — in churches and on Twitter
4 min read · 2021-02-12 · Immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett helped to design the Moderna vaccine. Now she volunteers her time talking about vaccine science with people of colour.
Reader View · Shared by 52, including Timothy Caulfield, Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Kevin Mitchell, Eric Topol, Josh Felser, Carlos del Rio, KizzyPhD, Virginia Hughes, Matthew Herper, Rick Powell, Roger Highfield, Nature Biotechnology, zeynep tufekci
nature
The vaccine shots that rang around the world
6 min read · 2021-11-01 · Two books follow key runners in the historic race to immunize the world against COVID.
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell, Eric Topol
The New York Times
Opinion | What We Know About Covid, the Flu and the Air We Breathe
4 min read · 2021-10-19 · We have more power than we thought against the flu and other respiratory viruses.
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The Atlantic
Why Are Americans Still—Still!—Wearing Cloth Masks?
5 min read · 2021-10-04 · It’s long past time for an upgrade.
Reader View · Shared by 39, including Dr. Syra Madad, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Dr. Tom Frieden, Garance Franke-Ruta, Rick Powell
The Atlantic
We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic
~18 min read · 2021-09-29 · This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast.
Reader View · Shared by 302, including Anne Helen Petersen, David Wallace-Wells, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Merkstatt, Ed Yong, Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻, Rick Powell, Dr. Tom Frieden, Carly, Mathew Ingram, Abraar Karan, Carrie Brown, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Tom Connor, Ben Fry
PBS
A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say
5 min read · 2021-09-25 · At least three promising antiviral treatments for COVID-19 are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter.
Reader View · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell
The Atlantic
The Wrong Way to Test Yourself for the Coronavirus
7 min read · 2021-08-30 · Rapid tests can help you stay safe in the Delta outbreak. But you have to use them correctly.
Reader View · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
STAT
Unvaccinated deaths overwhelm health workers in Covid hot zones
10 min read · 2021-08-18 · Inside the ICU, health workers face a frustrating new reality: Their patients' refusal to be vaccinated is prolonging the pandemic.
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The Atlantic
What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity
10 min read · 2021-09-03 · Reports of vaccines’ decline have been greatly overstated.
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NBC News
Largest mask study yet details their importance for fighting Covid-19
3 min read · 2021-09-01 · A study involving more than 340,000 people in Bangladesh offers some of the strongest real-world evidence yet that mask use can help communities slow Covid-19.
Reader View · Shared by 11, including Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Rick Powell
cspicenter.org
The Case against Lockdowns
2021-03-21 · Summary A year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit most of the world, there was arguably a good case for lockdowns. The initial growth of the epidemic implied a high basic reproduction number, which…
Reader View · Shared by 9, including Barnaby Skinner, Rick Powell
richardhanania.substack.com
Are COVID Restrictions the New TSA?
~12 min read · 2021-07-30 · The worrying parallels between the government reactions to 9/11 and COVID-19, and why some children might be permanently masked
Reader View · Shared by 20, including Steven Pinker, Elad Gil, Christina Sommers, Rick Powell, Alex Tabarrok
The Atlantic
America’s Bipartisan COVID-19 Illiteracy
6 min read · 2020-12-11 · Nine months into the pandemic, governments and elites still don’t understand—or refuse to clearly say—what this virus is or how it spreads.
Reader View · Shared by 30, including Rick Powell, Alex Cavoulacos, Brian Stelter, Taylor Lorenz, Ser Jeff Garzik
The Atlantic
The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man
10 min read · 2021-04-01 · In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson.
Reader View · Shared by 282, including Taylor Lorenz, Rebekah Jones #Vaccinated, James Fallows, David Fisman, zeynep tufekci, Carl T. Bergstrom, Brian Klaas, Esther C, MD MPH, Jason Silva, OM, Kara Swisher, David Frum, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Jay Rosen, Hunter Walker, Frank Luntz, Barry Ritholtz, Ida Bae Wells, Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Guy Kawasaki
The New York Times
Opinion | Are We Way Too Timid in the Way We Fight Covid-19?
8 min read · 2021-04-01 · The debate among doctors, epidemiologists and economists is still going strong.
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Edward Tufte, Alex Tabarrok, Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Elad Gil, Ezra Klein, Gregg Gonsalves, David Boaz, Rick Powell, Brendan Nyhan
