The A1 Verse: Hope in the time of coronavirus
By Thomas Gaulkin | December 7, 2020
Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin (Freepik / Open Clipart)
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, December 7, 2020.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
Vaccine May Ship In Days As Cases Surpass Record
(From the original by Michael D. Shear, Apoorva Mandavilli and Jill Cowan)
an ambitious timetable
by mid-January
by the end of the week
Really within days
Within 24 hours
within hours
the hopeful comments
continued
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Keywords: COVID-19, Coronavirus, The A1 Verse, pandemic optimism, vaccines
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
