The A1 Verse: Cold numbers
By Thomas Gaulkin | November 9, 2020
Illustration by Soledad Miranda-Rottmann (via Creative Commons)
Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred today, November 9, 2020.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
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‘Terrifying’ Surge Awaits a New Administration
(from the original by Sarah Mervosh, Mitch Smith and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio.)
| the magnitude | |
| 10 million | |
| the grip | |
| 100,000 a day | |
| the astonishing | |
| one in 441 | |
| the control | |
| 73 days | |
| at odds | |
| cold winter | |
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Keywords: 2020 presidential election, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Joe Biden
Topics: Biosecurity, Special Topics
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
