Steven Johnson has a new book coming out tomorrow, Enemy of All Mankind, about "the emergence of the East India Company, the British Empire, and the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations". [bookshop.org]
Virologist Peter Piot, one of the co-discoverers of the Ebola virus, came down with Covid-19 and had to be hospitalized. "Now that I have felt the compelling presence of a virus in my body myself, I look at viruses differently." [sciencemag.org]
An interesting thread about the extensive measures taken by South Korea to stem the spread of Covid-19. In America, we'd rather let hundreds of thousands of people die than submit to something so inconvenient. [twitter.com]
Medical bias & Covid-19: In a pilot study of 27,000 patients, "black patients were six times less likely to get treatment or testing than white patients". Six times! [nytimes.com]
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