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The Race to Get Convalescent Plasma to Covid-19 Patients

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Hospitals, medicine, Paywall Exclude, science, WIRED Free Access

One morning a few weeks ago, Rebecca Haley realized that her job had changed. Haley is the medical director for blood collection at Bloodworks Northwest, a nonprofit that serves 90 hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. But, Haley decided, regular blood and platelet donations weren’t the focus anymore. Like thousands of blood centers across the country, Bloodworks needed to collect something new: plasma from Covid-19 survivors. How Long Does the Coronavirus Live on Surfaces? Plus: What it means to “flatten the curve,” and everything else you need to know about the…

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Why Some States Are Resisting Social Distancing Measures

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, Paywall Exclude, public health, states, WIRED Free Access

Alabama hospitals were more than 630 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the state, more than 100 of whom were hospitalized, and dozens of patients on ventilators. Read all of our coronavirus coverage here. Her own lieutenant governor disagreed. The day before, Will Ainsworth “One thing that this outbreak reminds us of is that infectious diseases observe no borders—and that's true if they’re international borders, state borders, or county lines for that matter,” said Ben Lopman, a professor of epidemiology and environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. “At…

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The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, epidemiology, modeling, Paywall Exclude, WIRED Free Access

In the past few days, New York City’s hospitals have become unrecognizable. Thousands of patients sick with the novel coronavirus have swarmed into emergency rooms and intensive care units. From 3,000 miles away in Seattle, as Lisa Brandenburg watched the scenes unfold—isolation wards cobbled together in lobbies, nurses caring for Covid-19 patients in makeshift trash bag gowns, refrigerated mobile morgues idling on the street outside—she couldn’t stop herself from thinking: “That could be us.” It could be, if the models are wrong. Until this past week, Seattle had been the…