This Is What Happens When You Can’t Trust Official Coronavirus Advice

The U.S. has formal and informal coronavirus guidance — and it’s confusing and dangerous

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
5 min readJul 9, 2020

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If trust is the currency of leadership, then the United States is running on overdraft — and it’s costing American lives.

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that