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June 15, 2020
MagazineAri Schulman
The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution
How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge
March 26, 2020
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
An Emergency Decades in the Making
Was the United States ever prepared for a pandemic?
October 30, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Most Ebola Patients in the U.S. Survive. Half in Africa Die. Why Are We Letting This Happen?
October 26, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Heroic, Tragic Story of the Doctor Who Saved Nigeria From Ebola
October 21, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Two Reasons To Dial Back Ebola Hysteria
And one reason you shouldn't
October 1, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Airport Screening Would Not Have Stopped Ebola at the U.S. Border
Asymptomatic patients make the virus tough to detect
August 11, 2014
Howard Markel
How Scary Is This Ebola Outbreak?
An expert on epidemics answers your questions

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