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Why You Should Be Taking COVID-19 Very Seriously

Medical personnel arrive to perform COVID-19 coronavirus infection testing procedures at Glen Island Park, Friday, March 13, 2020, in New Rochelle, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) John Minchillo/AP
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Our friend Charlie Ornstein, an editor for ProPublica, says this about the pandemic:

As a longtime health care reporter, I see the unfolding coronavirus pandemic as representing everything I've read about — from the early days of epidemiology to the staggering toll of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic — but had not covered in my lifetime....

Not one public health expert I trust — not one — has said this flu comparison is valid or that we're overdoing it. Every single one, from former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to Harvard professor Ashish Jha, has said we're not doing enough, that this is far more serious than it is being taken.

READ HIS FULL REPORT:

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