Coronavirus Updates: A List of Good News and Bad News
These days, studies heralding some promising — or harrowing — new finding about the coronavirus seem to multiply as rapidly as the bug itself. As medical researchers the world over give COVID-19 their undivided attention, each week brings a new smorgasbord of working papers that leave lay observers either jubilantly awaiting the swift reopening of America’s mosh pits or despondently preparing for another 18 months of Zoom dates, depending on which items they happen to sample.
To help you get a better handle on the latest things we’ve learned about the novel coronavirus, and our prospects for vanquishing it, Intelligencer has prepared a brief rundown of all the good and bad news we’ve gotten in recent days.
Critically, just about all of these findings described here are preliminary. Humanity has only had a few months’ experience with the virus formally known as SARS-CoV-2. Our understanding of it is partial and subject to change. So take the following with a grain of salt (but not, under any circumstances, an unprescribed dose of hydroxychloroquine)…
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