[Share n burn] Today's coronavirus (COVID-19) links - April 15, 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 1,999,628 with 500,819 recoveries, 128,011 deaths, and 609,685 cases in the US.
Of the cases in the US, the site reports 49,966 recoveries, 26,059 deaths, and 25,591 cases (702 deaths) in Pennsylvania.
The site also reports 3,120,381 total tests and 101,615 hospitalizations in the US.
- Steem @honeybee: Research published in Nature shows alternate route of SARS-CoV-2 infection NOT present in SARS-CoV-1.
- Steem @meepins: US COVID Update (15-04-2020)
- Steem @julianhorack: Covid-19 lockdown day 20 – We’ve only just begun...
- To Help Americans Suffering During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Policymakers Need to Reduce Barriers to Employment ASAP - Subtitle: Allowing Americans to deploy their knowledge and skills to innovate and provide essential services must take priority over the concerns of burdensome regulatory boards.
- ‘I’m terrified of losing everything I’ve worked for.’ This woman found a new job, bought a car, and was furloughed due to coronavirus - Subtitle: ‘I just can’t fail anymore.’ Ashleigh Hanks fears for her health and financial stability amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- How the coronavirus took advantage of humanity’s essential weakness
- How the coronavirus took advantage of humanity’s essential weakness - Subtitle: What it is, where it comes from, how it hurts us, and how we fight it.
- The scientists and technologists who dropped everything to fight covid-19 - Subtitle: Scientists and technologists are dropping everything to help fight the pandemic—even their normal work.
- What past disasters can teach us about how to deal with covid-19 - Subtitle: Technology historian Mar Hicks reflects on how catastrophes often reveal long-running structural inequalities and force those in power to fix them.
- What if Covid-19 Returns Every Year, Like the Common Cold? - Subtitle: A new Harvard study models how long we’d have to keep social distancing if the virus turns out to be seasonal, like its coronavirus cousins. It could be years.
- Opinion: Controlling the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout may be above politicians’ pay grade - Subtitle: World governments are flying blindfolded into a monumental storm
- Vandals set 50 cellphone masts in the UK on fire because of a conspiracy theory linking the coronavirus with 5G
- Less than half in Singapore willing to share COVID-19 results with contact tracing tech - Subtitle: Just 41% of Singaporeans are comfortable sharing a positive COVID-19 test result with contact tracing technology, though 55% -- the highest amongst six countries surveyed -- are willing to do so with their employer or school.
- Coronavirus tracing tech policy 'more significant' than the war on encryption - Subtitle: COVID-19 apps that track individuals' movements and report them to a government server? What could possibly go wrong? Digital rights activists are starting to push back.
- Weathering the Covid-19 crisis - Subtitle: The MIT campus has become strangely quiet. But the selflessness, kindness, and courage of our community keep us connected, over any distance.
- Coronavirus is totally screwing up our sleep – here’s how to fix that - Subtitle: The stress of living under lockdown is playing havoc with our sleep, and things could stay that way for a long time
- UK Biobank: DNA to unlock coronavirus secrets
- Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu?
- Dr. Didier Raoult: Bad science on COVID-19 and bullying critics
- MLB teams step to the plate for large-scale coronavirus antibody study - Subtitle: Study hopes to find how many people have been exposed to COVID-19
- We may need 300,000 contact tracers to defeat COVID-19. We have 2,200 - Subtitle: Contact-tracing capacity is seen as critical to stopping transmission of disease.
- This year would have been Elizabeth and Robert Mar’s 50th wedding anniversary. They died within a day of each other from COVID-19 - Subtitle: She was the founder of Kona Kitchen, a pair of popular Seattle restaurants, while Robert is remembered as a ‘math genius’
- Can a Wearable Detect Covid-19 Before Symptoms Appear? - Subtitle: Stanford researchers hope to find the answer, which could impact health care beyond the current pandemic.
- How Verizon Media's networking team is handling COVID-19 supply chain challenges - Subtitle: "We had to create a DR plan for the DR plan," Verizon Media's Chief Network Architect said of the unprecedented global disruptions caused by the pandemic.
- The Apple-Google Contact Tracing Plan Won't Stop Covid Alone - Subtitle: Putting the privacy of these smartphone apps aside, few Americans have been tested—and there's a risk of false positives.
- How COVID-19 Could Ruin Weather Forecasts and Climate Records - Subtitle: As climate- and ecological-monitoring projects go dark, data that stretch back for decades will soon contain coronavirus-associated gaps
- Chloroquine, COVID-19 and Lupus - Subtitle: The search for a coronavirus treatment should not come at the expense of poor, ailing people
- Practicing Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 - Subtitle: Today’s reality for physicians results from a long-term underinvestment in preparedness, placing moral distress on us when we are unable to carry out our oath to do no harm.
- April 11th deaths per million people vs lockdown - Subtitle: Sweden is doing very well and the advantage may become even much clearer in days
- Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days - Subtitle: Isaac Ben-Israel, who is not a medical expert, says analysis worldwide shows new cases peaking after about 40 days, slams economic closures; leading doctor dismisses his claims
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