Coronaspiracy: Myths and Misconceptions

MAR 25, 202014 MIN
Coronapocalypse 20/20 - The Covid-19 Experience

Coronaspiracy: Myths and Misconceptions

MAR 25, 202014 MIN

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<p>Sheltering at home expands around the country; but why can't Oklahoma do it right? And some myths about the virus exploded. Also, the biggest conspiracy about it... (Spoilers: was it actually man-made?)<br> <br> <strong>Sources:<br> * </strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00822-x">Covert coronavirus infections could be seeding new outbreaks</a> (<em>Nature,</em> 20 March 2020)<br> * <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/coronavirus-testing-iceland">Everyone In Iceland Can Get Tested For The Coronavirus. Here's How The Results Could Help All Of Us.</a> (Buzzfeed.com, 18 March 2020)<br> * <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/">Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab</a> (<em>New York Post</em>, 22 February 2020)<br> * <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3064677/meet-major-general-chinas-coronavirus-scientific-front-line">Meet the major general on China’s coronavirus scientific front line</a> (South China Morning China Post, 3 March 2020)<br> * <a href="https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487">Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens</a> (<em>Nature</em>, 22 February 2017)<br> * <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2020.1733440">No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2</a> (<em>Emerging Microbes &amp; Infections</em>, 9:1, 505-507, 26 February 2020)<br> * <a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/theory-that-coronavirus-escaped-from-a-lab-lacks-evidence-67229">Theory that Coronavirus Escaped from a Lab Lacks Evidence</a> (<em>The Scientist</em>, 5 March 2020)<br> * <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotton-coronavirus-conspiracy/">Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked</a> (<em>Washington Post,</em> 17 February 2020)<br> * <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mining-coronavirus-genomes-clues-outbreak-s-origins">Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins</a> (Science magazine, 31 January 2020)<br> </p> <p><strong>Music:<br> </strong>"<a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/46469"><strong>Paranoia for Conspiracy</strong></a>"<br> by&nbsp;Stefan Kartenberg<br> 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons<br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/"><strong>Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)</strong></a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/covid19/message