And what it lost in the process
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/science-covid-19-manhattan-project/617262/
* prompted a temporary burst of funding and publications * the number of biological or medical researchers in the U.S. increased sevenfold * the all-too-human frailties of the scientific enterprise * a long winter of sickness * an online global dashboard to map and tally * the U.S. is facing a monkey shortage * What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors * How the Pandemic Defeated America * reconstructed the shape of SARS‑CoV‑2 * 54 different vaccines are being tested * * Read: How the pandemic will end * will not immediately end the pandemic * will have to be manufactured, allocated, and distributed * refuse the vaccine * dexamethasone turned out to reduce * hundreds of thousands of people were recruited into pointlessly small studies * Read: How we survive the winter * During World War II * “not a triumph of scientific genius but rather of organizational purpose and efficiency,” * a partnership called ACTIV * experiencing incapacitating symptoms that rolled on for months * Read: The core lesson of the COVID-19 heart debate * epistemic trespassing * didn’t seem to * Women’s research hours fell by nine percentage points more than did men’s * fell almost 44 percent * Men led more than 80 percent of national COVID‑19 task forces in 87 countries * the disease was disproportionately infecting and killing people of color * From the September 2020 issue: How the pandemic defeated America * The NIH received billions for COVID‑19 research *