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Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
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Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend

Ed Yong
The Atlantic, 2020
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Why is it that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, makes some people mortally ill and others not? How contagious is it really? How many have been infected so far? Answers to these questions remain largely in the dark. Part of the problem may be the unprecedented scale of the pandemic itself. Science journalist Ed Yong offers a guide to navigating and trying to grasp a pandemic that has overwhelmed just about everyone.

Take-Aways

  • The causes of the coronavirus pandemic are easy to misunderstand.
  • The disease caused by the coronavirus, COVID-19, varies among different people and places.
  • Scientists’ most important discovery so far is that asymptomatic people can spread the virus.

About the Author

Ed Yong is a British science journalist and a staff writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life.

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