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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

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

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

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?

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)

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