This Wall Street Journal article discusses efforts from scientists and billionaires to reallocate economic resources to analyze the various effects of the coronavirus. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-group-of-scientists-and-billionaires-pushing-trump-on-a-covid-19-plan-11587998993?mod=trending_now_3
This Wall Street Journal article discusses the economic costs of the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, the article elaborates on how California had an economic deficit prior to the coronavirus pandemic and is currently having difficulty funding is social welfare programs because it is being faced with abnormally high unemployment levels. https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-is-first-state-to-borrow-from-federal-government-to-make-unemployment-payments-11588617257?mod=hp_lead_pos2
This Wall Street Journal article discusses how schools are adjusting to the national quarantine, which has forced students to work remotely. https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-students-stuck-at-home-parents-turn-to-online-tutoring-services-11588196846?mod=hp_lista_pos1
This Wall Street Journal article discusses how medical professionals are struggling with the psychological effects of treating coronavirus patients. https://www.wsj.com/articles/young-doctors-struggle-to-treat-coronavirus-patients-we-are-horrified-and-scared-11588171553?mod=hp_lead_pos7
This article discusses how the medical sector in the United States underwent the largest jobless in a month during the initial coronavirus outbreak because they had to halt non-life threatening procedures. However, hospitals are beginning to resume non-life threatening surgical procedures. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-aim-to-resume-procedures-postponed-by-coronavirus-11587568784?mod=hp_lead_pos6
This article discusses how coronavirus deaths in nursing homes have increased drastically over the past few weeks. Elderly people are especially susceptible to death from coronavirus and nursing homes have become ground zero for these fatalities. https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-deaths-in-u-s-nursing-long-term-care-facilities-top-10-000-11587586237?mod=hp_lead_pos1
“A Tiny Hospital Struggles to Treat a Burst of Coronavirus Patients” discusses how Margaret Mary Community Hospital in Batesville Indiana has become overburdened by Coronavirus patients. Notably, the hospital only had a maximum capacity of twenty-five patients, to begin with, because it is in a small rural city, so it was overwhelmed by a relatively … Read more
This website provides a timeline of the events leading up to the USS Theodore Roosevelt incident and contains an archive of primary sources. During this incident, Capt. Brett Crozier commanded a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with 4,865 sailors during a Coronavirus outbreak. After this incident, Capt. Cozier was relieved of command after writing an unclassified memo … Read more
The Wall Street Journal news article titled “Questions About Accuracy of Coronavirus Tests Sow Worry” discusses how the failure of Coronavirus testing kits has facilitated the virus’ spread. Specifically, Dr. Smalley, a primary-care doctor who has been treating Coronavirus patients, estimates from his experience that the current Coronavirus test kits have a seventy percent accuracy … Read more
The New York Times article titled “Waiving Rent and Making Masks, Afghans Meet Coronavirus With Kindness” discusses the global COVID-19 pandemic from the Afghan perspective. The Afghan perspective is unique because the government is reallocating its national resources from fighting an insurgency to combatting the Coronavirus. Interestingly, part of their response consists of dispelling the … Read more
