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Terrence Holt publishes in Literary Hub, With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real?

We know next to nothing. That’s how we feel. SARS-CoV-19, or “the novel coronavirus,” the pathogen responsible for this pandemic, is a strikingly unusual beast, capable of wreaking a bewildering variety of harms on the human body, ten times deadlier than pandemic influenza, and spreading through Earth’s unprotected population in a way no pathogen has done in our lifetime. But perhaps the most striking thing about all of this is our overwhelming ignorance.

https://lithub.com/with-pandemic-information-overload-how-can-we-tell-what-is-real/

Terrence Holt is the author of three books, and is an associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.