CNBC: “The United States just had its deadliest day on record due to the coronavirus as states across the country begin to ease restrictions meant to curb the spread of the virus, according to data published by the World Health Organization. The U.S. saw 2,909 people die of Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to the… Continue Reading
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Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience
Harvard University: “Our bipartisan group of experts in economics, public health, technology, and ethics from across the country, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, has released the nation’s first comprehensive operational roadmap for mobilizing and reopening the U.S. economy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. “Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience: Massive Scale Testing, Tracing, and Supported Isolation (TTSI)… Continue Reading
Corona Scholar
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COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
“CORD-19 – COVID-19 Open Research Dataset The Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to provide CORD-19, a free resource of more than 57,000 scholarly articles about the novel coronavirus for use by the global research community…Discover New Insights About the Novel Coronavirus. Quickly explore the latest… Continue Reading
NIH COVID-19 Portfolio
“The iSearch COVID-19 portfolio is NIH’s comprehensive, curated source for publications related to COVID-19. This portfolio includes articles from PubMed and pre-prints from arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, SSRN and Research Square. The portfolio is updated daily with the latest available data.” See also this blog posting – New NIH Resource to Analyze COVID-19 Literature: The… Continue Reading
The Virus vs The Virus A Trump Twitter Timeline, Self Praise, and American Medicine in Crisis
Dave Pell: “Here’s a look at what the President of the United States was Tweeting as America’s Covid-19 body count continued to mount. The below examples are not exhaustive. But they are certainly exhausting…” See also The New York Times – 260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus See also The New… Continue Reading
The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever
The Atlantic– “…To see how the pandemic is already reshaping American retail, you don’t even have to go outside and count storefronts. Your receipts and credit-card statements tell the whole story. On Thursday, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that retail spending in March collapsed by the largest number on record. Travel spending—including on airlines, hotels,… Continue Reading
Why Some People Get Sicker Than Others
The Atlantic – COVID-19 is proving to be a disease of the immune system. This could, in theory, be controlled. “…COVID-19 is, in many ways, proving to be a disease of uncertainty. According to a new study from Italy, some 43 percent of people with the virus have no symptoms. Among those who do develop… Continue Reading
What You Should Know About COVID-19 and ADA, Rehabilitation Act, Other EEO Laws
EEOC – Technical Assistance Questions and Answers – Updated on April 23, 2020 – “All EEOC materials related to COVID-19 are collected at www.eeoc.gov/coronavirus. The EEOC enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (which include the requirement for reasonable accommodation and non-discrimination based on disability, and rules… Continue Reading
Covid-19 Arrived in Seattle. Where It Went From There Stunned the Scientists.
The New York Times – Scientists traced the virus brought to the Seattle area in January. They were astonished to learn that the same branch of the virus traveled on through at least a dozen states and to other parts of the world. “As the coronavirus outbreak consumed the city of Wuhan in China, new cases… Continue Reading
Inventions Birthed by Necessity
Daniel M. Gerstein – Domestic Preparedness – Wed, April 15, 2020 – “If necessity is the mother of invention, the new coronavirus is quickly birthing a lot of innovations. Parts of U.S. society may be forever changed by this pandemic. As of 13 April 2020, the United States had over 550,000 confirmed cases and nearly… Continue Reading
Domestic Public Health Response to COVID-19: Current Status
Domestic Public Health Response to COVID-19: Current Status Updated April 20, 2020: “The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting communities throughout the United States, with case counts changing daily. Over 760,000 cases have been reported in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with over 35,000… Continue Reading
