A must read by @zeynep @insight
Main Point: We knew so much about this virus before we even discovered it!
Yet we chose to ignore what we knew, and instead started over, rewriting the textbook and losing valuable ground.
I wrote on this recently too
https://coronavirus.medium.com/sars-cov-2-is-behaving-like-a-textbook-virus-804f6b658044 …https://twitter.com/insight/status/1329528317205241860 …
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In SO SO SO Many Ways. I really loved this piece you just wrote. If we can learn anything from this for the next pandemic... I hope it is to not freeze up and pretend like we know nothing. To lean on the decades of science we've done and believe in what we know of biology.
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Thank you. And yes. Admittedly, it really is a challenge when there is also this deliberate denial coming from the top. Still... Also, I've been reading up on the HIV/AIDS early era. This current moment is tragic but man, that virus. In comparison, this one really is textbook.
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