{
  "id": 16200245,
  "title": "You can’t eliminate uncertainty — but you can prevent it from paralyzing you",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/you-cant-eliminate-uncertainty-but-you-can-prevent-it-from-paralyzing",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-23T14:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Big Think",
    "slug": "big-think",
    "url": "https://bigthink.com/books/safer-book/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "At the time of this writing, there is no consensus about how COVID started. My colleagues and I tried to harness that uncertainty as a strength. Rather than waiting for certainty to arrive, we began acting in its absence. Not knowing the origins of COVID meant we were forced — as we readied the country and world for future unknown threats — to make ourselves safer from all potential causes:…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}