Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Stop Coronavirus? We Can Barely Even Diagnose It

A surge in new cases shows how inadequate our tools are.

February 13, 2020 at 9:42 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Fist-shaking doesn’t help, but couldn’t hurt.
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Just a few days ago we wrote that the coronavirus now known as Covid-19 keeps finding ways to surprise. It delivered a nasty one today.