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9 Best Articles in 2021
POLITICO
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.POLITICO
20+ min read · 2020-03-20 ·  The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis changed how Americans perceive their country and the world. The coronavirus pandemic has quarantined people in their homes, and altered their relationships and how they view the institutions that govern them. As with earlier crises, the coronavirus crisis may change people and US society as a whole in fundamental and lasting ways. No one can predict how this will play out. Politico Magazine asked experts and thinkers for their visions of the future. 
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The Washington Post
Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”The Washington Post
7 min read · 2020-03-14
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The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Will EndThe Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-03-25 · The U.S. may end up with the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.
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The Atlantic
You’re Likely to Get the CoronavirusThe Atlantic
~12 min read · 2020-02-24 ·  You’re washing your hands, practicing social distancing and coughing into your arm like a good citizen, but will this stop the spread of COVID-19? Your efforts may slow the spread, which offers social benefits, but the ship probably already sailed when it comes to actually stopping the virus. So will the world be able to pull it together and limit impending global disaster? James Hamblin, MD explains the barriers to a happy COVID-19 resolution in this article from The Atlantic, and describes what would be necessary for effective global responses to future pandemics. 
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The New York Times
How the Virus Got OutThe New York Times
7 min read · 2020-03-22 · We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why the most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough.
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Our World in Data
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Statistics and ResearchOur World in Data
2020-03-05 · Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. This is our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak. We will extend this page in the days ahead.
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The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Defeated AmericaThe Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-08-03 · A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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WIRED
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's ComingWIRED
8 min read · 2020-03-19 · Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.
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The New York Times
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called LanguishingThe New York Times
7 min read · Apr 19th · It’s the neglected middle child of mental health, and can dull your motivation and focus. And it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
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It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. It turns out there’s a name for that: languishing.
Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021.
This was a problem long before the pandemic, when people were habitually checking email 74 times a day and switching tasks every 10 minutes.
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Mix-and-Match Covid Boosters: Why They Just Might Work
The New York Times
New Delta descendant may be more infectious than its ancestor
Financial Times
COVID super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzles
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How the world learns to live with covid-19
The Economist
The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory
The New Yorker
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Our World in Data
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Statistics and ResearchOur World in Data
2020-03-05 · Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. This is our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak. We will extend this page in the days ahead.
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The New York Times
Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Global OutbreakThe New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-02-27 · The virus has infected more than 20 million people and has been detected in nearly every country.
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The New York Times
Your Questions About Life Under Coronavirus, Answered.The New York Times
2020-03-19 · The world has changed a lot in the last few weeks. We’re here to help.
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The Washington Post
Coronavirus Vaccine TrackerThe Washington Post
2020-08-13 · We are tracking 200 experimental vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic, a scientific quest moving at record-breaking speed. 
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BBC News (World)
Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid miracle drugBBC News (World)
8 min read · Oct 7th · Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what's the evidence?
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The New York Times
In Portugal, There Is Virtually No One Left to VaccinateThe New York Times
7 min read · Oct 1st · Portugal is among the most highly vaccinated countries in the world. Vice Adm. Henrique Gouveia e Melo, who led the campaign, said there was a key to his success: Keep politics out of it.
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Portugal ended nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions. There has been a sharp drop in new cases, to about 650 a day, and vanishingly few deaths.
There have been worrying signs from Israel and elsewhere that protection offered by vaccines can fade over time
Asked what other countries can do to bolster their own vaccination efforts, he did not hesitate to offer his best advice.  “They need to find people who are not politicians,” he said
Ars Technica
No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination: An explainerArs Technica
6 min read · Oct 8th · Infection does offer some immune protection—but it's unreliable compared with vaccines.
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nature
COVID super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzlesnature
7 min read · Oct 14th · People who have previously recovered from COVID-19 have a stronger immune response after being vaccinated than those who have never been infected. Scientists are trying to find out why.
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It’s very likely they will be effective against any future variant that SARS-CoV-2 throws against them
The New York Times
Opinion | Rapid Tests Are the Answer to Living With Covid-19The New York Times
6 min read · Oct 1st · Americans need both vaccines and universal access to rapid tests to get back to more normalcy.
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Science Magazine
Will the pandemic fade into an ordinary disease like the flu? The world is watching Denmark for…Science Magazine
5 min read · Oct 1st · With the virus “defanged” by high vaccination rates, the Danish government dropped all remaining restrictions this month
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The models also didn’t include a key wild card: the emergence of nasty new variants of the virus.
given SARS-CoV-2’s high transmissibility and the low vaccine uptake in the United States, he thinks it might well infect one-third of the U.S. population every year, causing 50,000 to 100,000 deaths, after society fully reopens
the United States routinely tallies 30,000 deaths each year from flu
The Economist
How the world learns to live with covid-19The Economist
~11 min read · Oct 14th · From pandemic to epidemic
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Scientific American
Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks—and Where to Get ThemScientific American
7 min read · Oct 1st · High-quality respirators such as N95s and K95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren’t more people wearing them?
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The New Yorker
The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak TheoryThe New Yorker
4 min read · Oct 12th · Did the virus spring from nature or from human error?
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The New York Times
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and UsThe New York Times
~11 min read · Oct 12th · Viral evolution is a long game. Here’s where scientists think we could be headed.
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We are extremely unlikely to eradicate the virus, scientists say, and what the next few years — and decades — hold is difficult to predict.
Transmission requires one person to somehow exhale or cough or breathe out the virus, and it to land in someone else’s airway and infect them
Because people who are hospitalised may be less likely to spread the virus than those who are walking around with the sniffles, some have theorised that new viruses become milder over time.
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