A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-confusing-uncertainty/610819/
* Trump remarked
* get really sick
* Are the models
* transmissible
* been infected
* go on for
* so many questions
* a meeting
* some wrongly argued
* on old cleaning products
* tracking its evolution
* in the South
* Read: Why some people get sicker than others
* heart
* kidney
* neurological
* giving patients blood thinners
* ventilators
* they must also be rigorous
* 30 similar “serosurveys”
* from doctors
* and nurses
* New York
* Lombardy
* preprint
* were
* uploaded
* questionable work
* published a paper
* Read: Don’t believe the COVID-19 models
* only some
* not
* reporting
* press-released
* told the media watchdog Health News Review
* Read: We are living in a failed state
* created a tool
* like the Nobel Prize
* there are no experts
* historians of science
* misjudge the odds
* Fauci himself said
* offered similar reassurances
* greater danger of flu
* told Americans
* The next day
* reiterated
* Redfield said
* have been mostly silent
* more accurate explanation
* why the issue was so divisive
* in a liminal space
* finding too much
* Read: Trump’s dangerously effective coronavirus propaganda
* and at six times the speed
* very different understandings
* still getting positive results