epidemiology

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/3/2022
  

  Wishful Thinking on COVID is as Dangerous as Prior Episodes of Denial

  by Gregg Gonsalves

  A convergence has emerged between the right and the center that the Omicron variant is the last hurrah of the COVID pandemic and a signal to go back to "normal." A public health scholar warns this is potentially sacrificing the vulnerable to the wishes of the powerful.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/21/2021
  

  Epidemiologist: Even Best-Case Scenario with Omicron Will be Bad

  by William Hanage

  "Hope is not an effective strategy for dealing with a pandemic. Two years in, we should all know that."

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• SOURCE: National Endowment for the Humanities
  8/6/2020
  

  The Last Pandemic

  by E. Thomas Ewing

  As we look to history for lessons in early 2020, we need to think broadly about how understanding the complexity of the past can inform decisions in the present and the future.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/6/2020
  

  America's Coronavirus Endurance Test

  by Howard Markel

  To defeat the virus, we will have to start thinking in years, not months. We must refuse to give up on flattening the curve. It’s up to us to hold the line until our government catches up.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/14/2020
  

  How the ‘Father of Epidemiology’ Made the Connection Between Disease and Geography

  by Deirdre Mask

  “The poor were dying in disproportionate numbers not because they suffered from moral failings,” Steven Johnson writes. “They were dying because they were being poisoned.”