Find links to the podcast and individual pods at RideHome

Wednesday, June 24 2020 - Mental Health Tips for Reopening Post-Lockdown

• Game-Changing New Smart Sponge Soaks Up Oil Spills, Saving Water And Wildlife (Forbes)
• How to Mentally Prepare for Reopening (LifeHacker)
• Make your own bee bed, a bed inside a beehive (Geekologie)
• Barcelona opera house plays to thousands of plants (CNN)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Tuesday, June 23 2020 - Get Ready To Go To Flavortown, Ohio

• There’s No Cure for Covid-19 Loneliness, but Robots Can Help (Wired)
• The French City Where a Midday Firework Marks the Start of Lunch (Atlas Obscura)
• Why are there fireworks every night, explained (Vox)
• ‘Jurassic Park’ Roars To No. 1 Again At Weekend Box Office, 27 Years After Original Release (Deadline)
• People are petitioning for Columbus, Ohio to be renamed ‘Flavortown’ (Mashable)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Monday, June 22 2020 - Send Your Cardboard Avatar To a Football Game

• Stonehenge: Neolithic monument found near sacred site (BBC)
• What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others (NY Times)
• Why sports stadiums are suddenly full of cardboard fans (The Hustle)
• Apply for a Job That Pays $10K to Keep Track of Toilet Habits (LifeHacker)
• VP of Fecal Matters (Tushy)
• Trade Me Project on TikTok, tiktok.com/@trademeproject
• Trade Me Project on Instagram, instagram.com/trademeproject

Friday, June 19 2020 - Space Cake: The Future of Astronaut Food

• Father’s Day Facts (Mental Floss)
• How 9 Countries Celebrate Father’s Day (Mental Floss)
• Father’s Day 2020: When Is Father’s Day? (The Old Farmer’s Almanac)
• How to Make it Through Father’s Day If It’s Difficult For You (LifeHacker)
• The Significance of Baking Cookies in Space (Super Cluster)
• The first cookies baked in space are back on Earth! (Space.Com)
• YouTuber creates fake Nirvana song using artificial intelligence (NME)
• Livestream of Wonderful Library Themed Bird Feeder (Laughing Squid)
• How the Apple Watch Ejects Water in Slow Mo (The Slow Mo Guys, YouTube)
• Marble League 2020 Qualifiers (ML2020) (Jelle’s Marble Runs, YouTube)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Thursday, June 18 2020 - The Segway Inventor Plans to Mass Produce Human Organs

• Inside the Push to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday (TIME)
• Here are the companies observing Juneteenth this year (CNBC)
• NY, Virginia to make Juneteenth official state holiday (Al Jazeera)
• The Segway Inventor’s New Dream: Mass-Produced Human Organs (Gizmodo)
• The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (One Zero)
• Genius productivity hack: Tell yourself it’s a horrible task (Fast Company)
• How to Motivate Yourself to Do Something Difficult (LifeHacker)
• Rick Astley Gets Rickrolled (Neatorama)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Wednesday, June 17 2020 - How Poop Can Prevent COVID-19 Outbreaks

• The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts (Washington Post)
• New Statue of Liberty Museum Illuminates a Forgotten History (New York Times)
• Cities are using sewer systems as COVID-19 early warning signs (The Verge)
• Testing sewage for the coronavirus seemed to work. It detected the outbreak in Cache County. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• The ‘Boccaccio Project’ Is Capturing the Music of Quarantine (Atlas Obscura)
• The Boccaccio Project (Library of Congress)
• Video camera stolen 20 years ago returned in pristine condition with tape still inside (ABC News)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Tuesday, June 16 2020 - The 411 on Dexamethasone: A New COVID-19 Treatment?

• Scientists hail dexamethasone as ‘major breakthrough’ in treating COVID-19 (Reuters)
• A Half-Century On, an Unexpected Milestone for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights (NY Times)
• The Stonewall Reader (New York Public Library)
• The Da Vinci of Fast-Food: The One Guy Behind a Huge Number of Staple Fast-Food Items Everyone Loves (Today I Found Out)
• Why People Are More Honest When Writing on Their Smartphones (Wall Street Journal)
• Taiwan airport offers ‘pretend to go abroad’ airport tours amid Covid-19 pandemic (CNN)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Monday, June 15 2020 - New Pandemic Solution: Just Print Your Own Money

• A Kentucky tattoo shop is offering to cover up hate and gang symbols for free (CNN)
• Erasing Hate (Trailer) (YouTube)
• Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic (The Hustle)
• Wooden Money Press, Tenino, Washington (David Paul, YouTube)
• Heroes tend to downplay their actions and new psychology research might explain why (PsyPost)
• Meet the dads who can’t quit pinewood derby racing—even after their kids are over it (PopSci)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Friday, June 12 2020 - CGI Crowds & Virtual Barbers: Our New Normal

• Spanish soccer returns with computer-generated crowds, and it actually works (The Verge)
• Artificial crowd noise available to UK viewers after use in Bundesliga (BBC)
• How to Cut Your Hair in Quarantine: Here’s What I Did (Nick Gray)
• You Probably Need a Haircut
• Scientists Have Discovered Vast Unidentified Structures Deep Inside the Earth (Vice)
• To Work Out Like a Knight, Try Donning Armor and Extolling Virtue (Atlas Obscura)
• Astronaut.io
• Jurassic Park: Low-budget Remake (Cardboard Movie Co., YouTube)
• This Low-Budget Cardboard Reproduction Of ‘Alien’ Is Pure Gory Genius (Digg)
• Saxophonist Cleverly Plays Into Giant Piece of Pipeline to Accompany Himself With an Echo in Perfect Pitch (Neatorama)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Thursday, June 11 2020 - How To Safely Hug Someone Again

• 6 Comfort Foods Born of Historic Times of Discomfort (Atlas Obscura)
• How to Hug During a Pandemic (NY Times)
• Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow’s Solar Farms (IEEE)
• Google sister company Wing will fly library books to students by drone in Virginia (The Washington Post)
• EpicHappyBirthdays (YouTube)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter, @jackisnotabird

Wednesday, June 10 2020 - The Woman Who Made Stuffed Olives During Brain Surgery

• Here’s what WHO says your mask should have to prevent COVID-19 spread (Ars Technica)
• Belgian Aged 103 Walking Marathon to Raise Funds for COVID-19 Research (NY Times)
• Entire Roman city revealed without any digging (Archaeology & Arts)
• Sapporo Zoo sells “lion-ripped jeans,” “beaver-gnawed coasters” and more to stay open amid COVID (SoraNews24)
• [North Safari Sapporo] Surviving crisis due to corona! I want to protect the animals! (Campfire)
• Italian woman prepares olives during brain tumour operation (BBC)
• MAN FILMS OWN BRAIN SURGERY (9.17.13 - Day 1601) (Charles Trippy, YouTube)

Tuesday, June 09 2020 - When Epidemiologists Expect to Resume Everyday Activities

• When 511 Epidemiologists Expect to Fly, Hug and Do 18 Other Everyday Activities Again (NY Times)
• I was one of the kids who voiced the famous recording of the “kidscheering.aif” sound effect, which was later popularised through the rise of IMovie, AMA. (r/AMA)
• The F-word’s hidden superpower: Repeating it can increase your pain threshold (Ars Technica)
• Former NASA astronaut becomes first woman to reach Earth’s deepest point (CNET)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Monday, June 08 2020 - The Hottest New Musician in the Bay Area: The Golden Gate Bridge?

• New Zealand Has a 95% Chance of Eliminating Coronavirus (The National Interest)
• With No Current Cases, New Zealand Lifts Remaining COVID-19 Restrictions (NPR)
• Apple’s ‘synthetic’ group selfie patent could be perfect for social distancing (Mashable)
• Virtual group selfie with social distancing in Apple patent (9to5Mac)
• Order Customized Stamps With Your Own Photos Until June 10 (LifeHacker)
• Paleontologists Predict What Future Animals Might Look Like (Gizmodo)
• Why the Golden Gate Bridge Is Now a Giant Orange Wheezing Kazoo (KQED)
• Golden Gate Bridge, Sound #1 (Mark Krueger, Twitter)
• Golden Gate Bridge, Sound #2 (@chilibrianno, Twitter)
• Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years (Brussels Times)

Friday, June 05 2020 - It’s National Donut Day! …But Why?

• New York City reports first day with no confirmed coronavirus deaths since March 11 (CNBC)
• Lancet, NEJM retract Covid-19 studies that sparked backlash (STAT)
• Hydroxychloroquine study retraction shows the problems of speedy science (The Verge)
• New Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine Did Not Prevent Covid-19 (NY Times)
• Humans Really Do Want Be Kind to Each Other, Even in The Face of Competing Interests (Science Alert)
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English) (The Guardian)
• National Doughnut Day’s WWI History (Mental Floss)

• [Free Donut Day

  All The Places Offering Free Donuts Today](https://www.buzzfeed.com/michelleno/free-donut-day-krispy-kreme-dunkin) (BuzzFeed)

• Reunited Apart (Josh Gad, YouTube)
• Five older women form a Spice Girls’ tribute act in the charming and poignant film, Wannabe (It’s Nice That)
• Black Creators / Black History (YouTube)

Thursday, June 04 2020 - Isaac Newton’s Little Known Plague Cure

• Approximate Percentage of the Population That Has COVID-19 Antibodies (Scott Gottlieb, Twitter)
• How Do Libraries Clean Books? And More Questions From Our Readers (Smithsonian Magazine)
• How to Sanitize Collections in a Pandemic (American Libraries Magazine)
• Isaac Newton Believed That Lozenges Made Of Toad Vomit Could Cure The Bubonic Plague (All That’s Interesting)
• Please Enjoy the Absurd Delight of Frog Bread (Vice)
• Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities (Science Daily)
• CNN and ‘Sesame Street’ to host a town hall addressing racism (CNN)
• Good News Ride Home on YouTube

Thursday, June 04 2020 - How the Pandemic Has Changed the Way We Sleep

• Japan to give people US$190 a day to boost domestic travel (South China Morning Post)
• Coronavirus: Ibuprofen tested as a treatment (BBC)
• A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling (Science Mag)
• How Sleep Has Changed in the Pandemic: Insomnia, Late Bedtimes, Weird Dreams (Wall Street Journal)
• Whaa? Responses To New Technology (Cracked)
• Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope (ca. 1930-1940) (Oak Ridge Associated Universities)
• South Korea to provide 10,000 face masks to help Navajo veterans fight coronavirus (Stars and Stripes)
• Episode 555: Why Is The Milk In The Back Of The Store? (NPR)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

Tuesday, June 02 2020 - The Introvert’s and Extrovert’s Guides to Lockdown

• Six Months of Coronavirus: Here’s Some of What We’ve Learned (New York Times)

• [What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach?

  National Endowment for the Humanities](https://www.neh.gov/article/what-did-bach-sound-bach) (National Endowment for the Humanities)

• Switched Off Bach (Joe DeGeorge, Bandcamp)
• In Glove With Bach (Joe DeGeorge, Bandcamp)
• Do Introverts or Extroverts Thrive in Coronavirus Lockdown? (Bloomberg)
• Your Dog Really Does Want to Rescue You, Research Finds (Science Alert)

Monday, June 01 2020 - Could Humans Go Into Hibernation?

• Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything (Elemental)
• New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says (Reuters)
• Gay weddings boost US economy by $3.8 bn since landmark ruling (Reuters)
• Human Hibernation Is a Real Possibility (The Atlantic)
• New Research: Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Host Life (Futurism)
• An English Clergyman’s Advice for Quarantine (The New York Review of Books)

Friday, May 29 2020 - Did COVID-19 Outbreaks Actually Start Later Than We Thought?

• Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India (Reuters)
• Tyson Pork Plant In Iowa Shuts After Hundreds Of Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 (HuffPost)
• To Beat Covid-19, You Have to Know How A Virus Moves (Wired)
• Coronavirus Epidemics Began Later Than Believed, Study Concludes (NY Times)
• Graduate Student Untangles Decades-Old Math Problem in Less Than a Week (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Taco Friday in Sweden (Mental Floss)
• How ‘Taco Friday’ Became a Swedish Tradition (Atlas Obscura)
• Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy (Boing Boing)
• A Modern Trailer for The Empire Strikes Back (Neatorama)
• Star Wars Game Show Trailer Is Here: Jedi Temple Challenge (Gizmodo)
• Disney+ Accessibility Subtitles Can Make Everything Comics Sans (Gizmodo)
• “Baby Yoda (This Is The Way)” (Blue Milk Run, Bandcamp)

Thursday, May 28 2020 - Can Biomarkers Tell Us How COVID-19 Affects People Differently?

• Here’s the Latest Good (and Bad) News About the Coronavirus (NY Magazine)
• The Demise of Local News Is a Pandemic Emergency (The Atlantic)
• How Will We Remember the Coronavirus Pandemic? (Discover)
• Frazier History Museum’s ‘Coronavirus Capsule’ records a pandemic lifestyle as it happens (Courier Journal)
• Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus may have been a cannibal (CNET)
• Why Oranges Come In Red Bags (Mental Floss)

Wednesday, May 27 2020 - Are Planes the Safest Way to Travel Right Now?

• More People Are Taking Drugs for Anxiety and Insomnia, and Doctors Are Worried (Wall Street Journal)
• A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression, Census Bureau finds amid coronavirus pandemic (Washington Post)
• How Covid Spreads (CDC)
• Where Coronavirus Spreads (Christopher Mims, Twitter)
• That Office AC System Is Great — at Recirculating Viruses (New York Magazine)
• What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps (ProPublica)
• Boeing and Airbus Study How Coronavirus Behaves During Air Travel (Wall Street Journal)
• How an Immunology Blog Became a Covid-19 Guide to Going Out (Wired)
• Nasa SpaceX launch: Evolution of the spacesuit (BBC)
• One Red Paperclip
• Can a bobby pin be traded up to a house? A woman on TikTok is trying to find out (Boing Boing)
• TradeMeProject (Instagram)
• TradeMeProject (TikTok)
• Scientists Record Rarely Heard Sounds Made by Narwhals (Gizmodo)

Tuesday, May 26 2020 - What We Know & Don’t Know About COVID-19

• In the developing world, the coronavirus is killing far more young people (Washington Post)
• What We Know and Don’t Know (Megan Ranney MD, Twitter)
• Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea (Nature)
• World’s oldest living cat celebrates his 32nd birthday (Animal Channel)
• How to Watch SpaceX Launch Astronauts to the ISS (Wired)
• ‘Orbit tax’ proposed to tackle growing problem of space junk (Sky News)
• Space Force (Netflix)
• Priests now baptizing kids and blessing food with water guns (A/V Club)
• 2020 grads can get free Pizza Hut pizza (ABC Chicago)
• Here’s A Clever Trick To Make A Pizza Box Walk Down A Ramp (Digg)

Friday, May 22 2020 - Is There Any Safe Way to Socialize IRL?

• Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says (Washington Post)
• Hydroxychloroquine study numbers (Ryan Struyk, Twitter)
• Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots (NPR)
• Students wear wings to maintain social distancing in China (Gulf News)
• Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show (NY Times)
• Want to see friends? Here are the coronavirus risk factors (LA Times)

• [Social distancing isn’t going to end soon. So how do we live with it?

  Gaby Hinsliff](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/23/social-distancing-social-pods-coronavirus-lockdown) (The Guardian)

• Can You Socialize Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic? (NY Times)
• ‘Pac-Man’ once felt futuristic. Now there’s a new one built entirely by AI. (Mashable)
• 40 Years on, PAC-MAN Recreated with AI by NVIDIA Researchers (NVIDIA)
• Pac-Man will be playable on Twitch starting this June (The Verge)
• On the Moon, Astronaut Pee Will Be a Hot Commodity (Wired)
• Her Cellphone Number Used To Be Elon Musk’s. You Can Imagine The Calls She Gets (NPR)
• David Lynch’s daily YouTube weather reports are highly soothing and very David Lynch (Mashable)
• Foster The People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’, Medieval Style (Geekologie)
• Does Hand Sanitizer Create Superbugs? (SciShow, YouTube)
• Why Some “Remastered” Music Videos Look Awful (Tom Scott, YouTube)

Thursday, May 21 2020 - CDC Updates Guidelines on Touching Surfaces

• Coronavirus ‘does not spread easily’ by touching surfaces or objects, CDC now says. But it still ‘may be possible.’ (USA Today)
• How Covid Spreads (CDC)
• What is the coronavirus risk in the ocean, pools, and lakes (LA Times)
• How Does a Virus Spread in Cities? It’s a Problem of Scale (Wired)
• No, NASA didn’t find evidence of a parallel universe where time runs backwards (CNET)
• How to improve your walking technique (Suunto)
• Learning life skills with Rob Kenney of ‘Dad, How Do I?’ (WCIU)
• Dad, How Do I? (YouTube)

Wednesday, May 20 2020 - How A.I. Can Help Us Develop a Vaccine More Quickly

• Airlines see signs of higher demand but pandemic clouds outlook (CNBC)
• OpenTable reservations dataset link & commentary (Paul Krugman, Twitter)
• This N95-like mask would allow you to unlock your phone with Face ID (CNET)
• AI-Powered Biotech Can Help Deploy a Vaccine In Record Time (Wired)
• Guidelines Say Covid-19 Symptoms Last Two Weeks. Survivors Know Better. (Elemental)
• Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2020 Livestream (Mental Floss)
• Chuck E. Cheese Is Selling Pizza on Delivery Apps as ‘Pasqually’s’ (Food & Wine)
• Things I Didn’t Need to Know: Chuck E. Cheese Has a Whole Backstory and It’s Incredibly Bleak (The Mary Sue)
• Chuck E. Cheese Wiki
• Captain Tom Moore ‘overawed’ by knighthood for NHS fundraising (BBC)
• The 100-Year-Old Who Raised $40 Million for U.K. Health Workers (NY Times)

Tuesday, May 19 2020 - Where Tests Abound, Why Aren’t People Getting Them?

• Initial surge in news use around coronavirus in the UK has been followed by significant increase in news avoidance (Reuters Institute)
• Thinking of Buying a Bike? Get Ready for a Very Long Wait (NY Times)
• The COVID Tracking Project
• A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus (NY Times)
• Shakespeare’s Globe May Permanently Close (The Mary Sue)
• Ocean City Bar Buys ‘Bumper Tables’ For Socially Distant Dining (CBS Baltimore)
• US states see COVID-19 testing supply improvements, but challenges abound (Washington Post)
• Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious, Study Shows (Bloomberg)

• [Ten Myths About the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  History](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-myths-about-1918-flu-pandemic-180967810/) (Smithsonian Magazine)

• Why You’re Going to See More Animation (Thanks, Pandemic) (Wall Street Journal)
• Listen to this mashup of Saturday morning cartoon themes (AV Club)
• If You’re Jonesing for a Homemade Snack, Try Etsy (LifeHacker)

Monday, May 18 2020 - Phase One of Moderna’s Vaccine Trial Looks Promising

• State-by-state hospitalization rates (Scott Gottlieb, Twitter)
• Coalition of 116 countries back Australia’s push for independent coronavirus inquiry (SBS News)
• TSA Prepares to Screen Temperatures at Airports During Pandemic (Gizmodo)
• Coronavirus Vaccine Trial by Moderna Shows Promising Early Results (NY Times)
• Dow soars 700 points for biggest jump in a month, boosted by coronavirus vaccine hope (CNBC)
• COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming, but They’re Not What You Think (The Atlantic)
• If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says (Vanity Fair)
• Visual simulations show why we all need to wear masks now (De Kai, YouTube)
• Why Is Texting People Back Suddenly So Hard? (Vice)
• Global Cooling Event 4,200 Years Ago Spurred Rice’s Evolution, Spread Across Asia (NYU)
• John Oliver rolls up a ridiculously brilliant remedy for our sports-starved existence (A/V Club)
• Jelle’s Marble Runs

Friday, May 15 2020 - Have Birds Gotten Louder During Lockdown?

• Experiment shows human speech generates droplets that linger in the air for more than 8 minutes (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus: False claims viewed by millions on YouTube (BBC)
• Covid Targets the Elderly. Why Don’t Our Prevention Efforts? (NY Magazine)

• [Opinion

  Coronavirus Is Making Young People Very Sick. I Was One of Them.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-young-people.html?referringSource=articleShare) (New York Times)

• Breathing exercise (Dr. Sarfaraz Munshi, YouTube)
• Birdsong seems louder and the ravens are more relaxed (Irish Times)
• Human Life Is Literally Quieter Due To Coronavirus Lockdown (NPR)
• Do Those Birds Sound Louder To You? An Ornithologist Says You’re Just Hearing Things (NPR)
• Why Did Michael Jordan Star in ‘Space Jam’? (Vulture)
• SpaceJam.com
• Forgotify

Thursday, May 14 2020 - How To Beat COVID-19 and Save The Economy

• Coronavirus suppression: Expert recommendations to beat Covid-19 (Vox)
• Netflix’s first interactive sitcom: Good for laughs, deserves a better app (Ars Technica)
• Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models (MIT Technology Review)
• Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost (Wired)

Wednesday, May 13 2020 - A Practical Guide to Avoiding COVID Risks

• As coronavirus cases resurge, lockdowns reimposed on at least three continents (Washington Post)
• Restaurants in Washington Need to Track Customer Info for Contact Tracing (Eater)
• A Practical Guide to Covid-19 Risks and How to Avoid Them (Kottke)
• Loss of smell, confusion, strokes: Does Covid-19 target the nervous system? (Knowable Magazine)
• Try to dock with the International Space Station with this SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator (The Verge)
• How to See Comet SWAN in Night Skies (New York Times)
• How to Make Cold Brew in a French Press (LifeHacker)
• Guy Fieri and Bill Murray are having a nacho cook-off for charity (Mashable)

Tuesday, May 12 2020 - Why You Still Can’t Find Clorox Wipes

• Coronavirus tracked: has your country’s epidemic peaked? (Financial Times)
• Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count (New York Times)
• Should Mild Coronavirus Cases Isolate at Home? Many Asian Countries Say No (Wall Street Journal)
• Why Clorox Wipes Are Still So Hard to Find (Wall Street Journal)
• Why quarantine has made time feel so weird, explained (Vox)
• Here Are Some Easy Tips So You Can Make All Those Zoom Calls Less Exhausting (Science Alert)
• Every episode of The Office is now playing out live on Slack (AV Club)
• Virgin birth has scientists buzzing: Researchers discover a gene in honey bees that causes virgin birth (Science Daily)

Monday, May 11 2020 - And Now For Some Good News

• New case results charts
• FDA Grants Emergency-Use Status for First Coronavirus Antigen Test (Wall Street Journal)
• The difference between antibody and antigen tests for the coronavirus: Who should get them and what do they do? (Business Insider)
• What if it takes a really long time to develop a coronavirus vaccine? (Wired)
• Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 (NY Times)
• Little Richard story one (Doug Benson, Twitter)
• Little Richard story two (Blaine Capatch, Twitter)
• Little Richard Put Wild Sex Into the Top 40 for Good (Vulture)
• The Simpsons predicted 2020 including the murder hornets (Boing Boing)
• How to Cook a ‘Murder Hornet’ (Gizmodo)
• ‘Murder hornets’ have arrived in the US—here’s what you should know (National Geographic)
• Closest black hole to Earth found ‘hiding in plain sight’ (National Geographic)
• If Planet Nine Is a Tiny Black Hole, This Is How to Find It (Discover Magazine)

Friday, May 08 2020 - Don’t Fall For the “Plandemic” Conspiracy Video

• Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count (NY Times)
• Blood thinners show promise for boosting the survival chances of the sickest covid patients (Washington Post)
• What It’s Like to Have Covid-19 (NY Times)
• Coronavirus antibody testing, explained (The Verge)
• A study finds that nearly everyone who gets the virus eventually makes antibodies. (NY Times)
• New Zealand’s “bubble concept” is letting people socialize again. Would it work in America? (Slate)

Thursday, May 07 2020 - What Are Covid-19’s Long-Term Medical Effects?

• Beware Overblown Claims of Coronavirus Strains (The Atlantic)
• 64 NY Children Sickened With Rare COVID-Related Illness, State Finds; Here Are the Warning Signs (NBC New York)
• 15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19 (NY Times)
• What Are COVID-19’s Long-Term Medical Effects? (Talking Points Memo)
• Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown (CNBC)
• Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes (NY Times)

Wednesday, May 06 2020 - What’s Up With That Mutated New Strain of the Virus?

• Study reports mutant coronavirus. It may be more contagious (LA Times)
• Commentary on the study of the possible new strain (Bill Hanage, Twitter)
• Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer begins testing coronavirus vaccine in people (Washington Post)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker (Milken Institute)
• How Hong Kong contained its second wave of Covid-19 (CNN)
• Rural Infection Rates Spike As Urban Outbreaks Subside, Data Says (Talking Points Memo)
• Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus (NY Times)

Tuesday, May 05 2020 - A Mysterious New Illness Affecting Children

• 15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19 (NY Times)
• Paul Romer on How to Survive the Chaos of the Coronavirus (The New Yorker)
• Inside the extraordinary race to invent a coronavirus vaccine (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus patients describe symptoms that last a month or more (CNBC)
• Will schools be open in September? We asked several experts to weigh in (CNBC)
• Lockdown Turns Nation’s Highways into Speedways (Wall Street Journal)

Monday, May 04 2020 - What Did We Actually Accomplish With the Quarantine?

• What the Coronavirus Models Can’t See (NY Mag)
• The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? (NY Times)
• Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges (Scientific American)
• How to compare coronavirus deaths to flu deaths more accurately (Washington Post)
• The Cubicle Is Back. Blame (or Thank) the Coronavirus (Wired)

Friday, May 01 2020 - When Will Kids Be Able To Hug Their Grandparents Again?

• Why you shouldn’t wear a COVID-19 mask that has a valve (Fast Company)
• Second-week crash: Some covid-19 patients become critically ill with little warning (Washington Post)
• Summer Weather Could Help Kill The Coronavirus — But It Won’t End The Pandemic (BuzzFeed News)
• Coronavirus: Swiss children under 10 allowed to hug grandparents as they ‘do not transmit COVID-19’ (Sky News)

Thursday, April 30 2020 - Would You Volunteer To Get COVID-19?

• UK hospitalization dataset (Noah Smith, Twitter)
• AstraZeneca news (Yashar Ali, Twitter)
• Gilead: Critical study of Covid-19 drug shows patients respond to treatment (STAT)
• Race for Coronavirus Vaccine Accelerates as Pfizer Says U.S. Testing to Begin Next Week (WSJ)
• Why don’t some coronavirus patients sense their alarmingly low oxygen levels? (Science)
• Opinion | The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients (New York Times)
• (LEAD) Recovered virus patients retest positive due to ‘dead’ virus fragments: experts (Yonhap News Agency)
• U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests (New York Times)
• Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported (Financial Times)
• People Are Willing to Risk Their Lives for a COVID Vaccine. Should We Let Them? (Vice)

Wednesday, April 29 2020 - New Study Suggests the Virus May Be Airborne

• We Are Doctors Who Study Trauma. Here’s How To Cope With The COVID-19 Crisis. (HuffPost)
• Many states short of Covid-19 testing levels needed for reopening (STAT)
• We Asked All 50 States About Their Contact Tracing Capacity. Here’s What We Learned (NPR)
• How Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu and Possibly COVID-19 (Scientific American)
• Patients with certain cancers are nearly three times as likely to die of covid-19, study says (Washington Post)
• HK scientists say new antiviral coating can protect surfaces for 90 days (Reuters)

Tuesday, April 28 2020 - The R0 Number to Watch For

• 1 in 4 in NYC May Have Been Infected, New Study Finds; Some Parts of State to ‘UNPause’ May 15 (NBC New York)
• NHS warns of rise in children with new illness that may be linked to coronavirus (The Guardian)
• Exclusive: National alert as ‘coronavirus-related condition may be emerging in children’ (HSJ)
• Slavitt, Gottlieb Seek Money For Contact Tracing, Self-Isolation (NPR)
• New York clinical trial quietly tests heartburn remedy against coronavirus (Science Magazine)
• City hotels become barracks for health workers ‘going to war’ (Brooklyn Eagle)

Monday, April 27 2020 - Behind the Headlines on Immunity

• Young people with coronavirus are dying from strokes (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus Immunity: No Evidence That People Can’t Be Infected Twice, WHO Says (BuzzFeed)
• Clarifying statement on immunity (WHO, Twitter)
• What the WHO actually means (Nate Silver, Twitter)
• Opinion | Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus? (New York Times)
• Antibody tests: 6% of Miami-Dade residents had coronavirus (Miami Herald)
• A Stanford Professor’s Wife Recruited People For His Coronavirus Study By Claiming It Would Reveal If They Could “Return To Work Without Fear” (BuzzFeed News)
• How to Save Summer 2020 (NY Times)
• CDC studies of restaurant and call center (Derek Thompson, Twitter)
• Coronavirus: Social distancing could require ‘necessary renovations’ to sports arenas (CNBC)

Friday, April 24 2020 - The Last Picture Show?

• New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents have had the coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo says (CNBC)
• Coronavirus Infections May Not Be Uncommon, Tests Suggest (New York Times)
• Washington State Builds Coronavirus Contact Tracing Brigade : Coronavirus Live Updates (NPR)
• What You Need to Know About New York’s ‘Monumental’ Contact Tracing Program (WNBC)
• Transplants plummet as overwhelmed hospitals focus on the coronavirus (STAT)
• Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits (New York Times)
• The Only Theater Screening New Movies Is a Drive-In in Ocala, Florida (Vice)
• Restaurants Are Turning Their Parking Lots into Drive-In Movie Theaters (Food and Wine)

Thursday, April 23 2020 - Are Ventilators Actually Helping?

• Reopening without testing (Dr. Ashish Jah, Twitter)
• Gathering of the Juggalos postponed (ICP, Twitter)
• Blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients, doctors say (Washington Post)
• New Zealand’s COVID-19 ‘eradication’ strategy looks to be paying off (CBC News)
• Despite scattered protests, most Americans support shelter-in-place, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows (Reuters)
• CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating (Washington Post)
• Is Donley County really the hardest hit in Texas by coronavirus? (Texas Tribune)

Wednesday, April 22 2020 - U.S. Cases Might Date Back to January

• LA County test controversy thread (Will Fithian, Twitter)
• Will There Be a Coronavirus Vaccine? Maybe Not (New York Magazine)
• Coronavirus: UK vaccine to be trialled on people from Thursday (Sky News)
• How Coronavirus Infected Some, but Not All, in a Restaurant (NY Times)
• People who need care are not going to hospitals because of coronavirus, doctors say (Washington Post)
• The long list of unknowns about the coronavirus (Axios)

Tuesday, April 21 2020 - How Long Can Coronavirus Live on Your Clothing?

• Hundreds of thousands in L.A. County may have been infected with coronavirus, study finds (LA Times)
• Asthma Is Absent Among Top Covid-19 Risk Factors, Early Data Shows (NY Times)
• Opinion | How to Keep Workers Healthy on the Job (Wall Street Journal)
• Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? (NY Times)
• What are ‘COVID toes’ and why are dermatologists seeing an ‘epidemic’ of them in kids? (Yahoo)
• Teen in Italy Showed Unusual Toe Marks That Are Now Considered Among Bizarre Symptoms of COVID-19 (The Science Times)

Monday, April 20 2020 - What We Can Learn From South Korea

• Report: Cobble Hill nursing home has most coronavirus deaths (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
• Washington State curve (Noah Smith, Twitter)
• Why Is South Korea Beating Coronavirus?: Mass Testing Success (Bloomberg)
• Coronavirus Testing Needs to Triple Before the U.S. Can Reopen, Experts Say (New York Times)
• Antiviral remdesivir prevents disease progression in monkeys with COVID-19 (National Institutes of Health)
• Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients (New York Times)
• Scientist behind saliva test breakthrough sees bridge to nationwide coronavirus screening (ABC News)
• Antibody Test, Seen as Key to Reopening Country, Does Not Yet Deliver (NY Times)

Friday, April 17 2020 - Are US Case Numbers Actually Plateauing?

• How Bad Is the Coronavirus Outbreak? Here’s a Key Number. (The Atlantic)
• Gilead data suggests coronavirus patients are responding to treatment (STAT)
• Stay 6 Feet Apart, We’re Told. But How Far Can Air Carry Coronavirus? (NY Times)
• This 3-D Simulation Shows Why Social Distancing Is So Important (NY Times)
• An Army of Virus Tracers Takes Shape in Massachusetts (New York Times)
• Large number of public service staff to be redeployed to contact tracing (Irish Times)

Thursday, April 16 2020 - Can over-exercising lower your immunity?

• Opinion | Coronavirus Recovery Isn’t So Quick or Simple (NY Times)
• Hyped Malaria Pill Doesn’t Help Clear Coronavirus in Study (Bloomberg)
• Treatment hailed by Trump has no benefit for coronavirus patients: paper (South China Morning Post)
• Abbott to make 20 million antibody tests for the coronavirus by June (Business Insider)
• Abbott Launches Third COVID-19 Test, a Laboratory-Based Antibody Blood Test That Will Ship in the US Starting Tomorrow (Abbott)
• How much of the coronavirus does it take to make you sick? (STAT)
• Lesson From Singapore: Why We May Need to Think Bigger (New York Times)

Wednesday, April 15 2020 - A Realistic Look At This Summer… And Next

• WHO graph of new cases and deaths (Chris Anderson, Twitter)
• Chile Counts Those Who Died of Coronavirus as Recovered Because They’re ‘No Longer Contagious,’ Health Minister Says (Newsweek)
• More NYers have died per capita than in Italy (Warren Bass, Twitter)
• 3 Vans, 6 Coolers, a Plane, a Storm and 2 Labs: A Nasal Swab’s Journey (NY Times)
• Whirlpool, Amazon, other businesses are working on plans to get their employees back on the job. (Washington Post)
• Scalable Testing for Coronavirus (Amazon)
• Stay Home During Outbreak: Americans Stick to Social Distancing (Bloomberg)
• Social-Distancing Rules—and Those That Flout Them—Spur Online Shaming (Wall Street Journal)
• Our Pandemic Summer (The Atlantic)

Tuesday, April 14 2020 - Governors Form Pacts to Reopen the Economy Together

• Percentage of pregnant women asymptomatic (Angus Davis, Twitter)
• Governors form groups to explore lifting virus restrictions; Trump says he alone will decide (Washington Post)
• New York asymptomatic rates (Chris Hayes, Twitter)
• South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots. (Washington Post)
• Walmart opening more testing centers (Eric Jackson, Twitter)
• Over 1 in 100 New York residents have now tested positive for coronavirus (Washington Post)
• Amazon puts new Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods delivery customers on waitlist amid surging demand (The Verge)
• New ways we’re getting groceries to people during the COVID-19 crisis (Amazon)
• How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money (NY Times)
• Five-step plan for reopening business is put to the test in China (Washington Post)
• ‘We need an army’: Hiring of coronavirus trackers is likely set to soar (Stat)
• How Do We Exit The Shutdown? Hire An Army Of Public Health Workers (Kaiser Health News)
• What Will It Take To Reopen US? CDC Says ‘Aggressive’ Contact Tracing : Shots - Health News (NPR)
• Coronavirus Update: 102-Year-Old Woman Defies Odds To Beat COVID-19, Doctor Calls Recovery ‘Miraculous’ (CBS New York)
• 102-Year-Old Woman Recovers from the Coronavirus (NY1)
• ‘Got More Beer’: Pa. Woman Who Went Viral For Beer Wanted Sign Gets A Special Delivery (CBS Pittsburgh)

Monday, April 13 2020 - Apple and Google to the Rescue?

• Florida COVID-19 test backlog is bigger than state says (Miami Herald)
• Florida’s count of coronavirus deaths is missing some cases (Tampa Bay Times)
• Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android (The Verge)
• Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology (Google)
• NHS phone app holds key to lifting UK’s coronavirus lockdown (The Times)
• Insight into Apple and Google’s contact tracing initiative (Ben Adida, Twitter)
• Hospitals are laying off staff in midst of the coronavirus pandemic (Washington Post)
• A plan to save coronavirus patients from dying at home (CNN)
• David Lat: My near-death experience on a ventilator (Washington Post)

Friday, April 10 2020 - The Hero Vet That Flattened The Curve For A Whole Nation

• Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CDC Says (Bloomberg)
• Virus Reactivation (Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Twitter)
• Testing is lagging (Dr. Ashish Jha, Twitter)
• To Get Our Economy Moving, Focus On Testing For Coronavirus (Forbes)
• Chicago’s Jail Is Top U.S. Hot Spot as Virus Spreads Behind Bars (NY Times)
• April 8 coronavirus news (CNN)
• California coronavirus curve: Fewer deaths, long quarantine (LA Times)
• With Holy Week hushed by a pandemic, the pope does social distancing his own way (Washington Post)
• What gathering for Easter, Passover, and Ramadan means during coronavirus (Vox)
• Veterinary scientist hailed for Faroe Islands’ lack of Covid-19 deaths (The Guardian)
• One fish saves a whole island (Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Twitter)

Thursday, April 09 2020 - Could Runners/Joggers Be Exposing Themselves Even When 6 Feet Apart?

• Population-level COVID-19 mortality risk for non-elderly individuals overall and for non-elderly individuals without underlying (medRxiv)
• How the coronavirus caused a giant national surplus of chicken wings (Washington Post)
• A national COVID-19 surveillance system: Achieving containment (American Enterprise Institute)
• White House lacks national strategy for key coronavirus tests (Washington Post)
• Coroners worry Covid-19 test shortages could lead to uncounted deaths (CNN)
• Coronavirus antibody tests could prove essential but scientists urge caution (Washington Post)
• Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone? (NY Times)
• My experience with a covid funeral (r/nyc)
• New York City Considers Temporary Graves for Virus Victims (NY Times)

Wednesday, April 08 2020 - Can People Catch Coronavirus Again? Worrying Data Around Low Antibody Levels

• EMT’s Get Controversial New Guidelines On Taking Some Patients To The Hospital | WNYC News (WNYC)
• Coronavirus: low antibody levels raise questions about reinfection risk (South China Morning Post)
• Low level of antibodies in some recovered patients (Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Twitter)
• Hunt Is on for Genetic Clues to Why Coronavirus Impact Varies (Wall Street Journal)
• Why Does Covid-19 Make Some People So Sick? Ask Their DNA (Wired)
• China Ends Wuhan Lockdown, but Normal Life Is a Distant Dream (NY Times)
• What we can learn from South Korea and Singapore’s efforts to stop coronavirus (besides wearing face masks) (Market Watch)
• A national COVID-19 surveillance system: Achieving containment (American Enterprise Institute)
• Tracking and tracing is key (Scott Gottlieb, Twitter)
• Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing (Science Magazine)
• Are contact tracing apps able to get us out of the #COVID19 crisis? (Marcel Salathé, Twitter)

Tuesday, April 07 2020 - You Never Want To Be On A Ventilator

• More than 700 Henry Ford employees tested positive for coronavirus (Detroit Free Press)
• New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it. (Washington Post)
• Patients Rush To Join Studies Testing Drug For Coronavirus (HuffPost)
• An Update on COVID-19 from our Chairman & CEO (Gilead)
• Ventilators aren’t a panacea for a pandemic like coronavirus (Spectator)
• What You Should Know Before You Need a Ventilator (New York Times)
• UK government admits Covid-19 antibody tests don’t work (Financial Times)
• Britain has millions of coronavirus antibody tests, but they don’t work (The Times)

Monday, April 06 2020 - Why Are People Burning Down Cellphone Towers?

• States with low percentage of hospitalized COVID patients (Scott Gottlieb, Twitter)
• All across the United States, the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show (Washington Post)
• Doctor’s Note: Why are more men dying from coronavirus? (Al Jazeera)
• US men less likely to heed health warnings as coronavirus death toll mounts: Reuters Poll (Reuters)
• Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate (ProPublica)
• Sweden Coronavirus News: Coronasmittade Sverige Nyheter (Bloomberg)
• Bill Gates will gamble billions to make a potential coronavirus vaccine (Yahoo Finance)
• British 5G towers are being set on fire because of coronavirus conspiracy theories (The Verge)

Friday, April 03 2020 - Why Are More Young People Dying in the South? And Should You Wear a Mask?

• California’s coronavirus testing backlog is a vast 64% unprocessed (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Italy’s Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported (Wall Street Journal)
• The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients. (New York Times)
• Masks help reduce COVID exposure amount (Peter Kolchinsky, Twitter)
• Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing (CNN)
• Poll: Less Than a Third of America Will Rush to Get Coronavirus Vaccine (NBC News)
• Coronavirus in Young People? NY Patients Skew Younger, Some Die (Bloomberg)
• The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South (The Atlantic)
• How Many Adults Are at Risk of Serious Illness If Infected with Coronavirus? Updated Data (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spread (New York Times)
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Provides Updated Guidance to Address the Urgent Need for Blood During the Pandemic (FDA)

Thursday, April 02 2020 - How To Reopen Society In Phases

• Henry Ford Macomb Hospital’s ICU at capacity as coronavirus cases in Michigan grow (Detroit Free Press)
• Coronavirus lockdown inspires runners’ backyard and balcony marathons (Washington Post)
• Is the Coronavirus Airborne? Should We All Wear Masks? (The Atlantic)
• Coronavirus: US Won’t Allow Imports Of Millions Of KN95 Masks (BuzzFeed News)
• National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening (American Enterprise Institute)
• Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders (NY Times)
• The New Coronavirus Testing Crisis at Private Labs (The Atlantic)

Wednesday, April 01 2020 - Aircraft Carrier Captain Pleads for Help; Pentagon has Ventilators and Testing Capacity… But Nowhere To Send Them

• Coronavirus: Walmart will start taking employees’ temperatures (CNBC)
• CA not testing enough (Kim Mai-Cutler, Twitter)
• Italy, Spain, and France peak graphs (Noah Smith, Twitter)
• Captain of Aircraft Carrier Pleads for Help as Virus Cases Increase Onboard (NY Times)
• Pentagon says it still hasn’t sent ventilators because it hasn’t been told where to send them (CNN)
• Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest (NY Times)
• What explains Covid-19’s lethality for the elderly? (Stat)
• Coronavirus on the border: Why Mexico has so few cases compared with the U.S. (Washington Post)
• Estimates Show Wuhan Death Toll Far Higher Than Official Figure (Radio Free Asia)

Tuesday, March 31 2020 - Have I Already Had Coronavirus? How Would I Know?

• Cases falling in Western Europe (Ian Shepherdson, Twitter)
• WHO shows sign of a peak in Europe (Chris Anderson, Twitter)
• Italy’s New Virus Cases Decline And WHO Sees Progress (Bloomberg)
• Germany will issue coronavirus antibody certificates to allow quarantined to re-enter society (Telegraph)
• Is It Possible That You Had The Coronavirus Earlier This Year? (HuffPost)
• Have I already had coronavirus? How would I know and what should I do? (The Guardian)
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing: What you should know (UC Davis)
• How Do The Coronavirus Tests Work? (HuffPost)
• More Americans Should Probably Wear Masks for Protection (NY Times)
• Would everyone wearing face masks help us slow the pandemic? (Science Magazine)
• Not wearing masks to protect against coronavirus is a ‘big mistake,’ top Chinese scientist says (Science Magazine)
• Johnson & Johnson to Begin Human Trials of Covid-19 Vaccine by September (Wall Street Journal)
• Johnson & Johnson to begin clinical trials on coronavirus vaccine by Sept (CNBC)
• Rural America Could Be Hardest Hit by COVID-19 (Healthline)
• Act fast by following NYC’s trajectory (Jeremy Konyndyk, Twitter)
• What not yet hard hit cities can do (Scott Gottlieb, Twitter)

Monday, March 30 2020 - New Worry: Aside from Emergency Medicine, Primary Care Medicine Faces Collapse As Well

• A Deluged System Leaves Some Elderly to Die, Rocking Spain’s Self-Image (NY Times)
• Italy leveling graph (Noah Smith, Twitter)
• Why The Pandemic Is Putting Primary Care Docs In A Major Financial Pinch (Talking Points Memo)
• Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Massive, Nationwide Strike (Vice)
• Some Recovered Coronavirus Patients In Wuhan Are Testing Positive Again : Goats and Soda (NPR)
• Reinfections in Asia (Peter Kolchinsky, Twitter)
• Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure (Harvard)
• Would you volunteer to get the coronavirus? Someone may have a job for you. (Technology Review)
• How to Take Care of Your Lungs (NY Times)

Saturday, March 28 2020 - A Possible Covid-19 Game Plan To Return To “Normal Life”

• Bill Gates wants businesses to stay closed in coronavirus pandemic (Vox)
• Importance of testing over lockdown (Matt Stoller, Twitter)
• How long shutdowns and shelter-in-place orders need to last (Noah Smith, Twitter)
• Using serological assays to identify individuals who have recovered (Trevor Bedford, Twitter)
• Free, Widespread Testing Is The Only Way America Goes Back to Normal (Yishan Wong, Medium)
• This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus (The Atlantic)
• Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance (Tomas Pueyo, Medium)
• The measures we must take to return to work (Saagar Enjeti, Twitter)
• Trump wants ‘the country opened,’ but easing coronavirus restrictions now would be disastrous, experts say (Washington Post)
• The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming (Wired)
• Abbott Laboratories new under five minute test (Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Twitter)
• This blood test can tell us how widespread coronavirus really is (Technology Review)
• Scientists develop first US blood test for coronavirus immunity (Daily Mail)
• Blood tests could help battle COVID-19 in US (ABC News)
• U.S. companies, labs rush to produce blood test for coronavirus immunity (Reuters)

Friday, March 27 2020 - The Two Tracks of Vaccine Development

• Exclusive: Senior U.S. Medical Students at New York University Offered Early Graduation to Combat Covid-19 (Brief19)
• Med Schools Plan Early Graduations To Rush Students To COVID Frontlines (Talking Points Memo)
• The Postal Service’s Surprising Role in Surviving Doomsday (Wired)
• How Will the Coronavirus End? (The Atlantic)
• With masks, ventilators in short supply, governors and hospitals call for federal intervention (Washington Post)
• Experts Say The Coronavirus Outlook Has Worsened, But The Trajectory Is Still Unclear (538)
• Coronavirus Daily Briefing YouTube channel

Thursday, March 26 2020 - Is Pinkeye Another Early Symptom of Covid-19?

• UK coronavirus home testing to be made available to millions (The Guardian)
• U.S. companies, labs rush to produce blood test for coronavirus immunity (Reuters)
• Coronavirus: Data Shows Younger People Are Being Hospitalized In High Numbers (BuzzFeed)
• Germany’s coronavirus death rate is lower than Italy, China, Spain, France (The Washington Post)
• This is why Germany’s coronavirus death rate seems so low (Wired)
• Coronavirus: S’pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (Straits Times)
• BlueTrace
• Pink eye may be a rare symptom of coronavirus, doctors say (Today.com)
• 13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital (New York Times)

Wednesday, March 25 2020 - Why is Coronavirus So Hard To Defeat?

• The science of why coronavirus is so hard to stop (Washington Post)
• Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on Cruise Ships… (CDC)
• CDC: coronavirus RNA found in Princess Cruise cabins up to 17 days after passengers left (CNBC)
• Iceland’s Coronavirus Testing Strategy Could Help All Of Us (BuzzFeed News)
• Gastonia company will make millions of medical face masks (Charlotte Observer)
• Race against time: Inside 1 of the world’s largest ventilator factories (ABC News)
• Ford partnering with GE, 3M to build ventilators, respirators, face shields (Automotive News)
• Fears of US drug shortages grow as India locks down to curb the coronavirus (CNBC)
• Coronavirus mutation rate is good for vaccine development (Washington Post)

Tuesday, March 24 2020 - Cut Back On Social Distancing Now?

• Coronavirus Act Now (where you can enter your state to see charts of how many days your state has to enact social distancing to prevent hospital overload)
• Covidlocal.org (a frontline guide for local decision makers)
• Olympic Champion Swimmer Diagnosed With Coronavirus Calls It ‘Worst Virus I Have Ever Endured’ (Newsweek)
• Iceland’s Coronavirus Testing Strategy Could Help All Of Us (BuzzFeed)
• COVID Myth-busting Thread (Faheem Younus, MD on Twitter)
• Could a Wearable Health Device Predict Coronavirus? (KQED)
• Predicting coronavirus? SF emergency workers wear state-of-the-art rings in new study (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Anthony Fauci on COVID-19, Trump, and Staying Healthy (The Atlantic)
• ‘I’m going to keep pushing.’ Anthony Fauci tries to make the White House listen to facts of the pandemic (Science Magazine)

Monday, March 23 2020 - Is the Sudden Loss of Taste and Smell A Symptom of Covid-19?

• Hospitals may run out of beds by late April if Gov. Abbott doesn’t order Texans to stay at home, hospital group warns (Dallas Morning News)
• ENT UK on Twitter: “There is the potential to reduce COVID-19 transmission by requesting that individuals with new onset of anosmia self-isolate.” (Twitter)
• Loss of taste and smell could be crucial symptoms of coronavirus (New York Post)
• Can Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus? (New York Times)
• Fever-tracking smart thermometers may see the spread of COVID-19 in this online map (CNET)
• Will spring breakers become super-spreaders? (Politico)
• Majority of NYC’s coronavirus cases are men between 18 and 49 years old (New York Post)
• Letter from Craig R. Smith, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC (via Cynthia McFadden, Twitter)
• A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients (ProPublica)
• WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments (Science)

Friday, March 20 2020 - Younger People Are Getting Sicker Than Anticipated

• Coronavirus Testing Chaos Across America (Wall Street Journal)
• Need a Coronavirus Test? Being Rich and Famous May Help (New York Times)
• Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks: COVID-19 (CDC)
• Shortages of face masks, swabs and basic supplies pose a new challenge to coronavirus testing (Washington Post)
• Nearly 40 Percent of US Hospitalized Coronavirus Patients Are Age 20 to 54 (New York Times)
• How Long Will Coronavirus Live on Surfaces or in the Air Around You? (New York Times)
• Noah Smith (Twitter)
• Jeremy C. Young (Twitter)

Thursday, March 19 2020 - See How Much Capacity Your Local Community Has For Covid-19 Patients; How To Preserve Your Mental Health

• Country trajectory chart (John Burn-Murdoch on Twitter)
• China: Avigan effective in tackling coronavirus (NHK)
• Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China (The Guardian)
• A Promising Treatment for Coronavirus Fails (New York Times)
• ProPublica tool - how much capacity do your local hospitals have? (ProPublica)
• These Places Could Run Out of Hospital Beds as Coronavirus Spreads (New York Times)
• Kristen Fisher (Twitter)
• What coronavirus looks like in kids (Washington Post)
• Children and Coronavirus: Research Finds Some Become Seriously Ill (New York Times)
• Epidemiological Characteristics of 2143 Pediatric Patients With 2019 Coronavirus Disease in China (Pediatrics)
• COVID-19 in Children: Initial Characterization of the Pediatric Disease (Pediatrics)
• Mental health experts offer counsel on staying calm during coronavirus pandemic (Washington Post)

Wednesday, March 18 2020 - What Does It Feel Like to Have Covid? What Are The Biggest Myths?

• @jwdaddy80 (Twitter)
• Chris Gough (Twitter)
• Luca Dellanna - Why Is Mortality So High In Italy (Twitter)
• Dr. Faheem Younus - Myths of Coronavirus (Twitter)
• Hospitals rushed by people seeking testing (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Coronavirus Is Hiding in Plain Sight (New York Times)
• Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) (Science)

Tuesday, March 17 2020 - “Stealth Transmission” and How Long Will Social Distancing Last?

• Tracking the Testing (Talking Points Memo)
• mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine Study (Kaiser Permanente)
• NIH Clinical Trial of Investigational Vaccine for COVID-19 Begins (NIH)
• UK’s original coronavirus plan risked ‘hundreds of thousands’ dead (Financial Times)
• Air pollution, smoking, and other lung strain may worsen coronavirus, experts say (Washington Post)
• Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) (Science)
• How long will social distancing for coronavirus have to last? Depends on these factors. (Washington Post)

Monday, March 16 2020 - How Long Does It Stay on Surfaces? How Long Can We Rely On Amazon Delivery?

• Tweet about the shutdown in Italy working (Twitter)
• Tweet about the Chinese aid to Italy (Twitter)
• Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized (CNN)
• Bergamo vs. Lodi chart (Twitter)
• Young people / South Korea chart (Twitter)
• Washington Post social distancing animation (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus: health researchers urge global authorities to consider broadening use of face masks (Inkstone)
• Mass masking in the COVID-19 epidemic: people need guidance (The Lancet)
• List of approved disinfectants (EPA)
• Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to SARS-CoV-1 (medXriv)
• Amazon Prime Will Falter During Coronavirus Crisis, Experts Say (Vice)
• Coronavirus: Cytokine storm syndrome treatments for Covid-19 patients may cut death rates (Vox)
• China turns Roche arthritis drug Actemra against COVID-19 in new treatment guidelines (Fierce Pharma)

Friday, March 13 2020 - Everything Feels Like It’s Canceled; New Faster Test Gets FDA Approval

• Where to Get a Coronavirus Test: Roche Speeds Delivery 10-Fold (Bloomberg)
• Scott Gottlieb, MD (Twitter)
• Danielle Paquette (Twitter)
• JetBlue Passenger Learns He Has Coronavirus While in Mid-Air (New York Times)
• Sick people across the country say they have been denied coronavirus test, despite doctor’s advice (Washington Post)
• Here’s the Biggest Thing to Worry About With Coronavirus (New York Times)
• Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing the COVID-19 outbreak: an observational and modelling study (medxRiv)
• Research finds huge impact of interventions on spread of Covid-19 (The Guardian)
• Clinical presentation and virological assessment of hospitalized cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (medxRiv)
• People ‘shed’ coronavirus early, but most likely not infectious after recovery (STAT)
• Symptoms of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (CDC)
• Prevent Others from Getting Sick (CDC)
• Coronavirus Resource Center (Harvard Health Publishing/Harvard Medical School)

Thursday, March 12 2020 - Trump Suspends Europe-U.S. Travel; What’s Going On With Testing?

• Iran coronavirus: Satellite images show Tehran building vast burial trenches for covid-19 victims (Washington Post)
• Tom Hanks Got Sick in Australia, Where Coronavirus Testing Is a Snap (New York Times)
• The NBA is suspended after a player tested positive for coronavirus (Vox)
• Top Coronavirus Doctor in Wuhan Says High Blood Pressure Is Major Death Risk (Bloomberg)
• There Is a ‘Tipping Point’ Before Coronavirus Kills (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials (Politico)
• ASM Expresses Concern about Coronavirus Test Reagent Shortages (ASM)
• Shortage of crucial chemicals creates new obstacle to coronavirus testing (STAT)
• Amazon Care, Gates Foundation may deliver coronavirus tests in Seattle (CNBC)
• New York officials traced more than 50 coronavirus cases back to one attorney (CTV News)
• Chart: The trajectory in the U.S. matches that of Italy (Christopher Mims on Twitter)
• Chart: US vs Italy Coronavirus Cases (Ian Bremmer via Susan Hatch on Twitter)
• Coronavirus COVID-19 updates: dashboard and report (Tool to compare countries - Andrzej Leskiewicz)

Wednesday, March 11 2020 - WHO Declares Pandemic; U.S. Cases Top 1,000; How Far Are We From A Vaccine?

• World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic (CNBC)
• 70 of 92 coronavirus cases in Massachusetts linked to Biogen employees after biotech firm’s Boston meeting (CNN)
• Marc Lipsitch (Twitter)
• San Jose: Three TSA agents test positive for COVID-19 (San Jose Mercury News)
• FT chart (John Burn-Murdoch on Twitter)
• Kids Can Get Covid-19. They Just Don’t Get That Sick (Wired)
• Why doesn’t coronavirus make kids sick with covid-19? (Washington Post)
• Christopher Mims (Twitter)
• Clinicians’ Biosecurity News (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security)
• David Paulk (Twitter)
• Wuhan Closes 11 Makeshift Hospitals for COVID-19 Patients (Sixth Tone)
• Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PDF - World Health Organization)
• Evolving Epidemiology and Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China (medRxiv)
• Face masks in national stockpile have not been substantially replenished since 2009 (Washington Post)
• Washington state requests N95 respirators from Strategic National Stockpile to fight coronavirus (Washington Post)
• Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Set to Begin This Month (Bloomberg)
• A coronavirus vaccine will take at least 18 months—if it works at all (MIT Technology Review)

Tuesday, March 10 2020 - New York Activates The National Guard; Soap Is GREAT Against The Virus

• The Harvard Crimson (Twitter)
• Oregon’s supply of coronavirus tests could run out Wednesday without infusion of kits from feds (The Oregonian/OregonLive)
• One chart shows how many coronavirus tests per capita have been completed in 8 countries. The US is woefully behind. (Business Insider)
• Coronavirus Live Updates (Washington Post)
• Italy extends coronavirus lockdown to entire country, imposing restrictions on 60 million people (Washington Post)
• Coronavirus, l’Italia diventa “zona protetta”: spostamenti vietati se non per comprovate necessità. Conte: “Non c’è più tempo” (La Repubblica)
• «Con le nostre azioni influenziamo la vita e la morte di molte persone» (L’Eco Di Bergamo)
• Jason Van Schoor (Twitter)
• The Incubation Period of COVID-19 From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases (Annals of Internal Medicine)
• Coronavirus symptoms ‘take five days to show’ (BBC News)
• New York is producing its own hand sanitizer due to shortages caused by the coronavirus outbreak (CNN)
• Palli Thordarson (Twitter)

Monday, March 09 2020 - Italy on the Brink? What Would It Take For That To Happen Here?

• Coronavirus in NY: Head of Port Authority Rick Cotton has coronavirus (NYPost)
• NYTimes Daily Updates
• Tweets about the Italian prison breaks
• Iran Has Far More Coronavirus Cases Than It Is Letting On (The Atlantic)
• @trvbd’s Tweet Storm About the Possible Seattle/Grand Princess Connection
• Seattle Health Care System Offers Drive-Through Coronavirus Testing For Workers (NPR)
• Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Gosar will self-quarantine after interacting with individual with coronavirus (CNN Politics)
• Anxiety in an aging Congress as coronavirus marches across U.S. (NBC News)
• Coronavirus: «Stiamo creando terapie intensive anche nei corridoi» (Corriere Della Sera)
• @jimsciutto Tweet About the Number of ICU beds in the US
• The Big Liz Specht (@LizSpecht) Tweet Storm About The Possible Capacity Of The US Healthcare System And How It Could Break
• One slide in a leaked presentation for US hospitals reveals that they’re preparing for millions of hospitalizations as the outbreak unfolds (Business Insider) * Note: This piece talks about that debunked slide going around. Offering it because the statement from the AHA is at the end.

Sunday, March 08 2020 - Italy Locks Down, And Why Aren’t We Testing More?

• Official: White House didn’t want to tell seniors not to fly (Associated Press)
• Italy Locks Down Much of the Country’s North Over the Coronavirus (NYTimes)
• Leaked coronavirus plan to quarantine 16m sparks chaos in Italy (The Guardian)
• Why some coronavirus patients are getting inconsistent test results (San Francisco Chronicle)
• South Korea has tested 140,000 people for the coronavirus. That could explain why its death rate is just 0.6% — far lower than in China or the US. (Business Insider)
• With Test Kits in Short Supply, Health Officials Sound Alarms (NYTimes)
• What went wrong with the coronavirus tests in the U.S. (Washington Post)
• Testing for the coronavirus might have stopped it. Now it’s too late. (Washington Post)
• The race to unravel the United States’ biggest coronavirus outbreak (Nature)