Breathing the Fall-out In

NY Dispatch Day 115: Let’s take a moment to level set. The common cold is a coronavirus that has no cure, and the world has never seen the novel coronavirus, commonly known as COVID-19, in humans prior to the end of last year. It is naturally occurring in bats and may have crossed into humans through a intermediary animal (cross-species transmission). As we have rushed to understand this new virus many concrete statements have been made and retracted. Unlike opinions, scientific understanding ev...