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Year Three of the Covid Pandemic
March 11, 2022
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Liza Featherstone
The “Solidarity” Trap
Our failures of pandemic solidarity cost lives. Ukraine is testing our solidarity in another way.
March 10, 2022
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Eleanor Cummins
The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic.
This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.
March 10, 2022
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Ben McKenzie
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Jacob Silverman
The Pandemic Sparked a Golden Age of Crypto Scams
Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.
March 9, 2022
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Melody Schreiber
This Is How Covid Started. And Here’s How We Stop the Next One.
The lab leak theory is dead. Covid-19’s true origins show why we need better disease surveillance of wild and domesticated animals alike.
March 8, 2022
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Natalie Shure
The Pandemic Gave America a Painfully Brief Glimpse of a Better Health Care System
The massive government interventions that buffered Covid-19’s ravages are fading away, returning us to an unacceptable status quo.
March 8, 2022
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Bryce Covert
After Two Years of Covid, the U.S. Economy Is Thriving. We Have the Great Recession to Thank.
Unlike in the last economic crisis, the government didn’t hesitate about spending money during the pandemic.
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