Where Did COVID-19 Come From?
Yesterday we reached a million cases, twice as last Friday. It’s hard to imagine that this now global disease was initially restricted to a single food market. But did the virus really originate there?
Yesterday we reached a million cases, twice as last Friday. It’s hard to imagine that this now global disease was initially restricted to a single food market. But did the virus really originate there?
Maps have been invaluable to understanding COVID-19, particularly in Venezuela, where reliable information is hard to come by.
We won’t have it in 2020 and, when it happens, it’ll be hard to find it in Venezuela, where there’s already a dramatic shortage of vaccines we’ve used for decades.
Not even the most functional countries are escaping the pandemic unscathed.
The world will see the transmission curve go up while Venezuela just reported its first official COVID-19 death.
Short answer: No, at least not one we’re absolutely sure it'll work, so let's review all the available options and their actual viability at this juncture against COVID-19.
Social distancing measures are based on projections and research applied to developed countries under the pandemic. Places like Venezuela require another approach.
While scientists in several countries join forces to stop the pandemic, Maduro defends a conspiracy theory of the coronavirus as biological ethnic-cleansing warfare.
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