One of the earliest updated maps. Global numbers, then breakdowns by most countries. Updated several times daily. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 For how the map was created: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30120-1/fulltext
One way to be creative while shut indoors . . .
A telling quotation from this article: “I think what people will want to know about this crazy time is what everyday life was like, what it was like to live through.”
Helen Branswell’s work is worth following regularly. In this piece, Branswell poses the question, “What does it look like to be on the front lines of that response — and what can we expect to happen in facilities across the country in the weeks to come?” and answers with interviews with three clinicians in New … Read more
“Trump suggested the sudden massive increase in need for masks might be the result of something nefarious — despite the very logical answer being that we have a global pandemic involving a respiratory disease” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/29/trump-bizarrely-blames-hospitals-mask-ventilator-shortages/
After SARS, China established a system for tracking cases of dangerous infectious diseases as well as outbreaks of new diseases. This story helps explain why that system broke down with covid-19, with local leaders not wanting to displease the central Chinese government.
“Chan School coronavirus analysis finds strategy would prevent overwhelming hospitals while building immunity.”
The category I want to focus on is how pandemics are affecting children. For this week’s post, I want to focus on the education aspect and how schools are transitioning to online learning. This will be Part 1 of 2 focusing on education. For this first part, this will primarily focus on a first-hand account of how … Read more
In New York City’s hospitals, medical personnel are running short of supplies, falling ill, and dying. In China and Italy, medical personnel, and especially doctors, constitute a large percentage of coronavirus cases. The same is beginning in the United States. In Queens, “patients are sometimes dying before they can be moved into beds.” In other … Read more
In this article, Isaac Chotiner interviews Richard Epstein about his essay, “Coronavirus Perspective,” that claims most epidemiological models of the covid-19 pandemic are mistaken. Chotiner teases out Epstein’s assumptions on which he bases his thinking, and inserts quotations from experts in the fields about which Epstein makes mistaken claims. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration
