All Stories published by Medium Coronavirus Blog on November 20, 2020

“Not even the best-prepared hospital can compensate for an unchecked pandemic.”

Ed Yong’s latest piece for The Atlantic looks at how hospitals—even those that are well prepared—are concerned over the rise in Covid-19 cases. Throughout the pandemic, hospitalizations have…


What Hundreds of Epidemiologists Are Doing for Thanksgiving

The New York Times spoke to over 600 public health experts about how they are approaching the upcoming holiday. Most are staying home and those who are gathering are taking precautions or rethinking holiday rituals.


“The tasks that lie ahead — manufacturing vaccines at scale, distributing them via a cold or even ultracold chain, and persuading wary Americans to take them — are not trivial, but they are all within the realm of human…

How the U.S. Failed on Covid-19

Harvard social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger spoke to Elemental about the country’s bungling of the pandemic and what went wrong. Krieger says:

“The United States has phenomenal resources available to some people with regard to biomedical advances…