The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West
At the national level, we’re seeing mixed indicators: Reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have declined very slightly since last Wednesday, while reported tests declined...
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COVID-19 Deaths Keep Rising – The Atlantic
Our count of U.S. COVID-19 deaths currently stands at 298,823, and will almost certainly reach 300,000 this week. It’s worth noting that from March through...
Listen: Misinformation Mailbag – The Atlantic
Wells: Why do you think this mask misinformation exists? I really do think we got off to a bad start on mask information at the...
COVID-19 Hospitalizations Have Doubled in One Month
The current hospitalizations metric doesn’t distinguish between newly admitted COVID-19 patients and those who have been in the hospital for days or weeks already, so...
Three Effective Coronavirus Vaccines Is Good News
Nevertheless, the news here is good: Another vaccine works. While Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s trials went about as perfectly as possible, AstraZeneca’s announcement demonstrates how an...
With Vaccines, the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is in Sight
The spectacular efficacy of these vaccines, should the preliminary data hold, likely also has to do with the choice of spike protein as vaccine target....
The Lame-Duck Vaccine
A Biden administration is also a return to the very basics of scientific communication: not openly fighting with agencies, letting scientists rather than politicians speak,...
The Most Complicated Vaccine Campaign in History
If a vaccine is fast-tracked through an emergency use authorization rather than formally licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, that too could create bureaucratic...