Scrub typhus is nearly as widespread as malaria in parts of India. But little is known about it, and the government is only now launching measures to fight it.
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India s COVID-19 Response Suggests âScientific Superpowerâ Status an Impossible Dream
To get to the hearts of many stories about the COVID-19 epidemic, journalists have had to wade through a swamp of lies and deceit.
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The novel coronavirus showed, pretty quickly, that even though it spreads through people and even though people are often constrained by borders, it would not be. China’s COVID-19 epidemic quickly became the world’s COVID-19 pandemic.
In much the same way, there may not be much sense in talking about the pandemic as an event confined to an arbitrarily defined unit of time, in this case 2020. The name of the virus’s disease attests to this view: COVID-19 was discovered in 2019, but it wreaked most of its havoc in 2020, and will continue for months to come.