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• Categorized in Coronavirus

  This is what it will take to get us back outside

  How to safely ease social distancing while we wait for a covid-19 drug or vaccine.
• Categorized in Coronavirus

  We need mass surveillance to fight covid-19—but it doesn’t have to be creepy

  This is a chance to reinvent the way we collect and share personal data while protecting individual privacy.
• Categorized in Tech policy

  How to manage a pandemic

  Coronavirus was a test, and many of the world’s most advanced nations have all too visibly failed. What can we do better?
• Categorized in Biotechnology

  How does the coronavirus work?

  What it is, where it comes from, how it hurts us, and how we fight it.
• Categorized in Biotechnology

  The race to find a covid-19 drug in the blood of survivors

  Scientists are scrambling to find powerful antibodies that can turn back the disease. But can they manufacture enough for everyone?
• Categorized in Fighting coronavirus

  What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19

  The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing and social assistance.
• Categorized in coronavirus

  The unholy alliance of covid-19, nationalism, and climate change

  When the pandemic wanes, a poorer, more divided world will still face the rapidly rising threat of global warming.
• Categorized in Computing

  How America must prepare for a pandemic election

  Voting by mail is the only sensible option, but it's not going to happen without swift action.
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  They were waiting for the Big One. Then coronavirus arrived.

  Can being ready for one kind of disaster prepare you for another?
• Categorized in Coronavirus

  Stop covid or save the economy? We can do both.

  Contrary to what you’ve heard, shutting down the country is also the quickest way to get it started back up again
• Categorized in Life on lockdown

  How months at sea prepared me for lockdown on land

  My experiences hiding from pirates on the Indian Ocean helped when the loneliness of coronavirus self-isolation kicked in. But there are still things I miss.