Sarah Zhang
What It Means to Name a Forgotten Murder Victim
Thirteen years ago, a young woman was found dead in small-town Texas. She was nicknamed “Lavender Doe” for the purple shirt she was wearing. Her real identity would remain a mystery until amateur genealogists took up her case.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The ‘Emergency Use’ Loophole
The Trump administration’s emergency authorization of plasma exploits a controversial FDA policy.
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Brian L. Frank / The New York Times ... The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
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The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check
So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Birdsong That Took Over North America
Since 2000, a strange new type of song in white-throated sparrows has spread across the continent at stunning speed.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic What a Negative COVID-19 Test Really Means
We know very little about how reliable tests are for people who don’t feel sick.
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Jim Goldberg / Magnum The Pandemic Broke End-of-Life Care
In a Boston ICU, staff members orchestrate goodbyes over Zoom and comfort patients who would otherwise die alone.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Rats Have Not Changed. We Have.
Sheltering in place produced a “natural experiment” for urban wildlife.
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Cornelia Li America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.
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Adam Maida We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here
Even as vaccines for the disease are being held up as the last hope for a return to normalcy, misinformation about them is spreading.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why the Coronavirus Hits Kids and Adults So Differently
COVID-19 is much less severe in children, and it could have to do with a child’s still-developing immune system.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic A Much-Hyped COVID-19 Drug Is Almost Identical to a Black-Market Cat Cure
Cat owners are resorting to China’s underground marketplace to buy antivirals for a feline coronavirus.
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The Atlantic The False Hope of Antibody Tests
The immunity tests were supposed to be a “game changer,” but they are instead revealing that the majority of Americans are still vulnerable to COVID-19 infection.
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What Life Is Like After Being Taken Off a Ventilator
A near-death experience in the ICU could have lasting effects on the brain—from PTSD to cognitive impairment on par with mild dementia.
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Bettmann / Getty The People Who Risked Death for Immunity
When yellow fever swept through 19th-century New Orleans, immunity became so valuable, people were willing to go to extreme lengths for protection.
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BSIP / Universal Images / Getty / Paul ... The Best Hopes for a Coronavirus Drug
If there is a way to stop COVID-19, it will be by blocking its proteins from hijacking, suppressing, and evading humans’ cellular machinery.
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Erin Brethauer Chinese Americans Have Seen This Before
The lockdowns, equipment shortages, and overburdened hospitals feel all too familiar.
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Getty / The Atlantic America Needs Plasma From COVID-19 Survivors Now
People who have recovered from the disease have antibodies that might help those still suffering from it.
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Paul Campbell / Getty / The Atlantic America’s Hospitals Have Never Experienced Anything Like This
If they run out of space, where will all the sick people go?
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Nick Fox / Shutterstock Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
There are advantages to having biotech executives as neighbors.
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Richard Ross / Getty What It Really Means to Cancel Elective Surgeries
To make room for coronavirus patients, hospitals are delaying procedures that would make major differences in people’s lives.
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