No one was prepared for the coronavirus pandemic. The public certainly wasn't. The US government wasn't. Even the public health experts who had spent their entire careers anxiously preparing for a pandemic weren't, in part because the basic mechanics of the coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 defied expectations. The virus didn't spread the way experts thought it would. And COVID-19 looked wildly different in different people, making it difficult to spot. “It's an extraordinary virus, the likes of which I've never, ever seen, and I've been doing this now for almost 40 years," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told BuzzFeed News. "I've never seen a virus that on the one hand has no symptoms in one person but on the other hand can be absolutely deadly for another person. That is really quite unprecedented.” Doctors and scientists raced to understand the basic nature of the coronavirus and how to treat severe infections. Meanwhile, the general public has craved answers, often turning to a panoply of imperfect sources: anecdotes, preliminary studies, officials, and the internet. The swirl of misinformation, conspiracies , and conflicting official guidance, a problem exacerbated by President Donald Trump , made… Read full this story
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