[Share n burn] The daily COVID chronicle - April 21, 2020
In no particular order, here are today's links from my RSS feed. Please consider clicking through to upvote any Steem post(s) on the list.
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As mentioned in previous posts, here is a visualization tool for mapping the cases of COVID-19 occurrences.
According to the site, this morning's worldwide number of reported cases was 2,499,723 with 659,589 recoveries, 171,718 deaths, and 788,110 cases in the United States (US).
Of the cases in the US, the site reports 73,527 recoveries, 42,374 deaths, and 34,005 cases in my state, Pennsylvania (1,357 deaths).
The site is also reporting 117,962 hospitalizations and 4,026,572 total tests administered in the US.
- Steem @honeybee: Lower than predicted death tolls evidence of social distancing working?
- Steem @meepins: US COVID Update (20-04-2020)
- Steem @mabraper: American oil suffers a historical fall and enters negative territory, What will happen in the next days?
- Georgia Governor Is Reopening His State, 'Incrementally and Safely'
- Facebook, Google, and Apple are using data from millions of users to map COVID-19 and people's movements. Here are all the coronavirus maps and dashboards made by tech giants you can explore today.
- Who can we count on to slow Huawei's continuous growth? US prez Donald Trump and COVID-19
- UN warns coronavirus could double number facing acute hunger
- Constitutional Rights and Voluntary Action Are the Keys to Beating COVID-19 - The private sector has been able to pivot and respond to this crisis as a result of rights enshrined in the Constitution.
- New Covid-19 Antibody Study Results Are In. Are They Right? - Subtitle: Two preprints of California serosurveys offer surprising estimates about the infection rate, and have caused a Twitter “peer review” uproar.
- Facebook has released a map of coronavirus symptoms crowdsourced from its users
- Pandemic set to crush developing economies, Israel’s World Bank envoy says - Subtitle: Poorer countries rocked by plummeting commodity prices, drop in remittances, skyrocketing debt and weak safety nets, with dire consequences for global public
- Coronavirus Update X: Juicing The Numbers, Prolonging The Pain
- The Pandemic Can Taint the Memory of Things We Love - Subtitle: Music, binge-watching, sourdough starters—these things are helping people cope. Will coronavirus also ruin them forever?
- Opinion: International business will be an early victim of coronavirus as governments take greater control of their economies - Subtitle: COVID-19 has exposed a fundamental weakness of the U.S. and world economies
- IT spending will be viewed through new lens as business resumes post COVID-19 - Subtitle: IT budgets are going to be squeezed. Although IDC is projecting IT spending declines, predicting a bottom is a work in progress.
- Facebook takes stance against anti-shelter in place COVID-19 protests - Subtitle: Event pages used to organize the protests across the US are being removed.
- The race to save the first draft of coronavirus history from internet oblivion - Subtitle: How researchers, archivists, and citizens are racing to preserve a record of we lived and changed during this strange period of history.
- CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm - Subtitle: A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol.
- Why the New Coronavirus Affects Some Animals, but Not Others - Subtitle: While the virus seems capable of infecting some pets and wild animals, these cases probably aren’t occurring often
- The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial
- Three years ago, IBM ordered staff to work in central hubs. Now its new CEO ponders mid-pandemic: Is there a better way of doing things? - Subtitle: Plus sales down, guidance scrapped. What else is new? Well OK, apart from the 'unprecedented business climate'
- Walter Williams: A COVID-19 Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Amazon is facing multiple inquiries from labor regulators into whether it unlawfully retaliated against workers who spoke out about its coronavirus response
- 33 sick Israelis treated with antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients - Subtitle: Head of Israel’s blood service is cautiously optimistic of results
- Google pre-pandemic: User-Agent strings are so 1990s. Time for a total makeover. Google mid-pandemic: Ah, we'll reschedule to 2021 - Subtitle - Web disruption delayed due to coronavirus lockdown challenges
- Wolf Makes Reopening Concessions, but Stops Short of Transparency
- COVID-19 IS A GRAPH PROBLEM THAT BITCOIN SOLVES
- As COVID-19 data sets become more accessible, novel coronavirus pandemic may be most visualized ever - Subtitle - COVID-19 data sets are becoming widely available and more importantly packaged for consumption, visualization and analysis. We're all amateur epidemiologists now.
- Sweden’s Top Epidemiologist: COVID-19 Infections Flattening Under Policy of Individual Responsibility - Subtitle: Sweden bucked the trend of top-down lockdowns.
- Antibody Tests for the Coronavirus May Not Change Everything - Subtitle: Touted as society’s way out of widespread lockdowns, scientists say the true potential of these rapidly developed tests is still unknown
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