{"id":202,"date":"2020-03-29T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=202"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:40:07","slug":"how-will-the-coronavirus-end-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/29\/how-will-the-coronavirus-end-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will the Coronavirus End? &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has crashed economies and broken health-care systems, filled hospitals and emptied public spaces. It has separated people from their workplaces and their friends. It has disrupted modern society on a scale that most living people have never witnessed. Soon, most everyone in the United States will know someone who has been infected. Like World War II or the 9\/11 attacks, this pandemic has already imprinted itself upon the nation\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n<p>A global pandemic of this scale was inevitable. In recent years, hundreds of health experts have written books, white papers, and op-eds warning of the possibility. Bill Gates has been telling anyone who would listen, including the 18 million viewers of his TED Talk. In 2018, I wrote a story for The Atlantic arguing that America was not ready for the pandemic that would eventually come. In October, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security war-gamed what might happen if a new coronavirus swept the globe. And then one did. Hypotheticals became reality. \u201cWhat if?\u201d became \u201cNow what?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/03\/how-will-coronavirus-end\/608719\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>How Will the Coronavirus End? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/future\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#future<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/howitends\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#howitends<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/models\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#models<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/genc\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#genc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has crashed economies and broken health-care systems, filled hospitals and emptied public spaces. It has separated people from their workplaces &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/29\/how-will-the-coronavirus-end-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[64,67,65,66],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}