Atlantic March 25, 2020
Ed Yong

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

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Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has crashed economies and broken health-care systems, filled hospitals and emptied public spaces. It has separated people from their workplaces and their friends. It has disrupted modern society on a scale that most living people have never witnessed. Soon, most everyone in the...

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