The Wheat From The Chaff: Understanding COVID-19

Deepti Pradhan
9 min readSep 26, 2020

Answers will come from scientific data; anecdotes while sometimes helpful aren’t testable, and can often be misleading. Science is what will help us get to the other side of this pandemic

On January 26, 2020 I landed in New York via Abu Dhabi, after spending almost seventeen hours in an aluminium tube, inhaling and exhaling the same air that 300 other people breathed. A little…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)