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2 Fifteen Days
Flatten the Curve March 2020 Donald Trump stood at the podium in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on March 16, flanked by an unusually stacked cast of government and health officials. As the president announced the guidelines for “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” standing with him were Vice President Mike Pence, Drs.…
1 The Virus
Rumors from Wuhan December 2019–January 2020 Twenty-first-century Americans are used to scary headlines. Whether it’s nuclear war, sentient AI, climate change, or more lurid examples like murder hornets, Y2K, killer clowns, or a Mayan apocalypse, we are used to being regularly served with the inevitability of our impending doom. As such, the average person can…
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