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Poorly supported assumptions about typical levels of lung function among Black men in the US are leading medics to miss cases of emphysema

The agency’s new guidelines are wrong, so states have to step up on their own to suppress the coronavirus.

Studies of past emerging disease epidemics have taught us that testing alone will not prevent new outbreaks. To re-open the economy we must undertake the most massive effort to trace and isolate new infections in history.