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    1. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses, every one of which was predictable. I want to unpack that idea. A thread. 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ …

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    2. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      This paragraph at the top hints at some of those weaknesses--all discussed, all left to fester. 2/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ …pic.twitter.com/gElISHtPlm

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    3. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      But I think that while everyone saw the cracks in their particular area, few people saw all the pieces--or weighted them correctly. Which is why we had pre-pandemic indices that assessed the US as the most prepared of all nations. 3/ (From March: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/ …)pic.twitter.com/rMUFLhD9hp

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    4. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      It's striking, e.g., how many books/features were written about pandemic preparedness & how many make zero mention of health inequalities as an *entirely obvious* magnifier. Including mine. Where's the inequalities section in this piece? Doesn't exist. 4/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/ …

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    5. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      The same could be said for the online misinformation problem. I'm still thinking about what Renee diResta told me about the need for methods that catch emerging infodemics just as we have some for new diseases. 5/ (Back to the new cover story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ …)pic.twitter.com/tCY6lAZIaa

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    6. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      Which brings me to That Sentence. Yes this is a list of Trump's many failings (and a paean to the semicolon) but note the recurring predictability theme: Trump has always shown us who he is, before, during, and after his election. 6/pic.twitter.com/4HfI1ABYR7

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    7. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      See, for example, this piece I wrote in Dec 2016, before his inauguration. At the time, someone wrote to me saying "This is ridiculous. I'm no fan, but Trump's not going to let us die of Ebola." I guess the Ebola part was right. 7/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/outbreaks-trump-disease-epidemic-ebola/511127/ …

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    8. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      So: lots of problems, all foreseen by some and unattended by most. This bit's important. It's not that other countries did everything right, but that they did most things right. And by corollary, the US failed because it did most things wrong--and its errors are coupled. 8/pic.twitter.com/RaE6StPLe0

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    9. Ed Yong‏Verified account @edyong209 6 Aug 2020

      The piece that's linked in the middle of those paragraphs is this one by @zeynep, which *you should really read*. If there's any one piece that influenced my new one, it's this. 9/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-coronavirus-response/608596/ …

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