You’d imagine eight months into the pandemic most countries would know exactly what to do to stop the coronavirus. And yet here we are.
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The Covid-19 Journey: Curated by Tomas Pueyo
When I wrote "Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now", which gathered 40 million views, or "The Hammer and the Dance", which gathered 20 million, I didn't come up with new research. I just put together what was out there in an understandable way. This is what I tried to do here: With all the information available, it's hard to keep up with what matters. What articles should you read to understand all the key aspects of the pandemic? These are the ones I propose to you.
WHAT measures work
How any country can learn to dance and stop the coronavirus.
the fence
No country has stopped the coronavirus without this measure.
To stop the coronavirus, the most successful countries slammed their doors shut to visitors. It worked. Until they let outsiders back in.
impact of Clusters
Once infections are in your community, a few super-spreader events drive most infections. Stop them, and you'll stop the epidemic.
There’s something strange about this coronavirus pandemic. Even after months of extensive research by the global scientific community, many questions remain open. Why, for instance, was there such an enormous death toll in northern Italy, but not the rest of the country?
explaining airborne transmission
How to stop infections when people do meet? To do it, you need to understand aerosols.
The coronavirus is spread through the air, especially in indoor spaces. While it is not as infectious as measles, scientists now openly acknowledge …
what can we do now
It's hard to imagine aerosol spread. This article has some videos that make you see it with your own eyes.
Over 10 translations available at the bottom of the article. More translations welcome. My two previous articles, Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now and …
what about masking
Masking is a big debate. That's why understanding how masks work intuitively is so important.
"In this animation, you will see just how effective a swath of fabric can be at fighting the pandemic."
rapid testing
A key measure against the coronavirus is test-trace-isolate. Testing at a huge scale would make that measure extremely efficient.
“At the moment, the United States has no semblance of public-health testing” for the coronavirus, says Michael Mina, an assistant professor of …
Understanding Immunity
Immunity is such a complex topic. But this video manages to explain it in an understandable way.
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In collaboration with BioRender, Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, explores COVID-19 Immunology 101 for...
delivering Vaccines
Now that we have a potentially good vaccine, the next question is when we'll have access to it. Understanding the logistics behind vaccine distribution becomes key. This article explains it really well.
On the day that a COVID-19 vaccine is approved, a vast logistics operation will need to awaken. Millions of doses must travel hundreds of miles from manufacturers to hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies, which in turn must store, track, and eventually get the vaccines to people all across …
Herd Immunity
This recently updated article is from summer, but all the conclusions still stand, months in. A cautionary tale for all herd immunity apologists.
Sweden has famously followed a different coronavirus strategy than the rest of the Developed world: Let the virus run loose, curb it enough to make sure it doesn’t overwhelm the healthcare system like in Hubei, Italy or Spain, but don’t try to eliminate it. They think stopping it completely is impossible.
The history of pandemics
We haven't suffered a catastrophic pandemic since 1918. But up until then, they were common. We've just forgot how life used to be with them.
Nearly 140,000 Americans have been lost to coronavirus, and many experts fear that the deaths will only accelerate in the fall as cold weather forces us indoors. By year’s end, half as many Americans may have died as did in the four years of World War II. And yet we are still arguing over how to …
