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March 9, 2022
Melody Schreiber
This Is How Covid Started. And Here’s How We Stop the Next One.
The lab leak theory is dead. Covid-19’s true origins show why we need better disease surveillance of wild and domesticated animals alike.
June 29, 2021
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
Most theories about the pandemic starting with a bioengineered virus are less plausible than the simpler alternative: bats being bats.
May 24, 2021
Magazine
Dan Xin Huang
China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
How the island nation charted a path between Chinese authoritarianism and Western chaos
June 15, 2020
Magazine
Ari Schulman
The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution
How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge
June 15, 2020
Magazine
Jake Bittle
Why Conservatives Believe a Chinese Lab Created the Coronavirus
The conspiracy theory sprung from an amateur YouTube video. Then, the National Review picked it up.
March 26, 2020
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The Politics of Everything
An Emergency Decades in the Making
Was the United States ever prepared for a pandemic?
January 11, 2010
Bradford Plumer
Why China's Trains Are Breaking Records
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