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Why Did an Expert Who Warned About COVID-19 Have So Much Trouble Being Heard?

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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.A bit before midnight on January 20, a Harvard epidemiologist named Eric Feigl-Ding posted a long, terrifying Twitter thread mostly summarizing, and in a few places contextualizing, a new, pre-publication paper on the infectiousness of the novel coronavirus that had, at the time, forced Wuhan into a total lockdown but had not yet been detected outside of China. The context he added was, mostly, alarmism.“Holy mother of god,” the thread began, “the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!!” That figure referred to what’s called the...

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