Month: April 2020

“David Chang Isn’t Sure the Restaurant Industry Will Survive Covid-19” from the New York Times, March 27th, 2020

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/27/magazine/david-chang-restaurants-covid19.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR1eFuWIu5HcA4JzrtEp8IfNkdQ4N1gbvowhQ6oM1HPAEdlGSF-jcq3OG9k You might know David Chang from his show Ugly Delicious on Netflix, which follows Chang as he brings illustrious guests with him to explore different food traditions around the world. He’s also done many other impressive food-related things as well. But the show is in many ways the epitome of global connectedness, using food … Read more

Stavridis, “A Navy Captain’s Brave Fight Against Coronavirus: There’s no social distancing on an aircraft carrier, so an emergency stop was the right call.” Bloomberg News, April 1, 2020, updated April 3,2020.

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According to a friend who was a Navy flier for many years, “ADM Stavridis is probably one of the most respected minds in the Navy (now retired). Extremely educated and wise.” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-01/an-aircraft-carrier-is-no-place-to-fight-coronavirus

Some of the Best Photographers in the World Turn to Instagram Amidst Quarantine

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World famous photographers shoot their lives in quarantine and are restricted to the confines of their own homes and neighborhoods as sets for their work in quarantine. Many are turning to Instagram as the platform to share these photos as the platform allows for people to access art digitally. Stephen Shore offers a particularly interesting … Read more

Shih and Sun, “Specter of possible new virus emerging from central China raises alarms across Asia,” Washington Post, January 8, 2020.

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By this point in January, it was clear to some observers that something bad might be coming down the pike. But at the time, the Post reported: “The health commission in Wuhan, a transit and business hub, says there is no clear evidence that the unidentified disease can be transmitted between humans, and no health-care … Read more

Boburg, et al., “Inside the coronavirus testing failure: Alarm and dismay among the scientists who sought to help,” Washington Post, April 3, 2020.

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A compelling investigative reporting piece on what happened with the testing failure in this country, something that in the end historians will note caused many needless deaths. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/03/coronavirus-cdc-test-kits-public-health-labs/?arc404=true

Link Between Childhood Immunizations and COVID-19 Resistence

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720304837?via%3Dihub The above article talks about how young children have a smaller chance of being infected, and if they do they are more likely to shrug it off. The article posits that this is because vaccines given to children between infancy and 6 years old like varicella, Hepatitis B, MMR, Poliomyelitis, and rotavirus may interact … Read more