This is a short overview about the BCG vaccine and its possible ability to protect from coronavirus infection. It includes a fascinating graph that compares the COVID-19 rates in different countries around the world with different rates of BCG vaccination showing a possible trend in which populations with higher rates of BCG vaccination have had … Read more
A Florida man is protesting Florida beaches reopening early in the COVID-19 pandemic by dressing as the grim reaper and sitting in a lifeguard like chair on Florida beaches. Florida (and other states) have been opening their beaches and people have been flocking there and not observing social distancing guidelines. https://mashable.com/article/daniel-uhlfelder-grim-reaper-florida-beaches/
A British man climbed the height of Mount Everest at home. He was planning on going to Nepal as part of the TENZING Everest Challenge to visit sustainability projects but it was canceled due to COVID-19, so he decided to attempt it from home while raising money for the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund which provides … Read more
Along with many protests around the country about the stay-at-home orders, this article covers some protests in Virginia. https://www.pilotonline.com/government/virginia/vp-nw-coronavirus-republicans-reopening-virginia-20200417-dca7xzj2sjhcjmpfcktsdkmh7e-story.html
This is an article from the New York Times that shares the results of a study done at UCSF to find possible cellular targets for COVID-19 as well as drugs that are already approved on in clinical trials that could help. Carl Zimmer does a good job of accurately presenting the work from the paper … Read more
This resource is a projection of the hospital resource uses including beds, ICU beds, and ventilator needs based on complete social distancing through May 2020. It is constantly updated and also projects the mortality curve. It gives important information and examples of flattening the curve by comparing these projections to the number of available hospital … Read more
As COVID-19 spread through the United States different states and different counties enacted social distancing policies at different points in time. NYT used data from cell phones (similar to the Social Distancing Scoreboard posted earlier) to look at the impact of these policies and the amount of movement. This can be used to see the … Read more
The people behind this website created a way to rank the social distancing practices of different places across the United States from A to F based on GPS data from cell phones on a daily basis. They think it can be used in a way to “measure and understand the efficacy of social distancing initiatives … Read more
