Daily Archive: April 5, 2020

We’ve counted the viral spread across peoples; now we need to count it within people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_Mukherjee In the third week of February, as the COVID-19 epidemic was still flaring in China, I arrived in Kolkata, India. I woke up to a sweltering morning—the black kites outside my hotel room...

In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our...