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How Science Beat the Virus Ed Yong
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In fall of 2019, exactly zero scientists were studying COVID‑19, because no one knew the disease existed. The coronavirus that causes it, SARS‑CoV‑2, had only recently jumped into humans and had been neither identified nor named. But by the end of March 2020, it had spread to more than 170 countries, sickened more than 750,000 people, and triggered the biggest pivot in the history of modern science. Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles had previously consumed their curiosity and began working on the pandemic instead. In mere months, science became thoroughly COVID-ized.
As of this writing, the biomedical library PubMed lists more than 74,000 COVID-related scientific papers more than twice as many as there are about polio, measles, cholera, dengue, or other diseases that have plagued humanity for centuries. Only 9,700 Ebola-related papers have been published since its discovery in 1976; last yea
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everybody playing detective. good evening. we have news tonight about houses and foreclosures in america, and it s not the news any of us wanted to hear. we learned today that more than 100,000 homes were repossessed by banks just in september. and that s more than any other month in american history. and, there are these burning questions. what about the banks that foreclosed on houses without reading the documents? and were some of the people doing this outsourced, jobs overseas? david muir has been investigating all of this today. reporter: diane, if there was a telling sign over the concern about all of this, just look at the stock market today. investors pulling money out of the big banks. a big sign, growing concerns over how the banks have taken back millimeters of homes in this country. tonight, growing fury about how the banks went about it. first word of the robo signers, bank wores, signing over on paperwork they never read. one worker admitting he signed off o
good evening. we have news tonight about houses and foreclosures in america, and it s not the news any of us wanted to hear. we learned today that more than 100,000 homes were repossessed by banks just in september. and that s more than any other month in american history. and, there are these burning questions. what about the banks that foreclosed on houses without reading the documents? and were some of the people doing this outsourced, jobs overseas? david muir has been investigating all of this today. reporter: diane, if there was a telling sign over the concern about all of this, just look at the stock market today. investors pulling money out of the big banks. a big sign, growing concerns over how the banks have taken back millimeters of homes in this country. tonight, growing fury about how the banks went about it. first word of the robo signers, bank wores, signing over on paperwork they never read. one worker admitting he signed off on 10,000 homes a month. and now