Police Brutality On the Rise

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https://qz.com/india/1826387/indias-coronavirus-lockdown-brings-police-brutality-to-the-fore/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/man-shot-dead-philippines-flouting-coronavirus-rules-200405072915819.html Police brutality has been on the rise as states attempt to enforce lockdown policies. In India, this follows a fairly disturbing trend of increased police violence in recent years. Police have been using humiliation tactics along with violence, many times on people performing essential services. In the Philippines, the government warned that those … Read more

How we Communicate Regarding COVID-19 Matters

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Wesleyan Professor, Erika Franklin Fowler, has been interested how effective communication can effect the way we engage with the coronavirus. In speaking with government leaders in Connecticut, she shares some advise on how to effectively communicate how to best protect the public health, such as making messages short and simple as well as taking politics … Read more

Freeman, “Inovio Pharmaceuticals begins human trials for COVID-19 vaccine”

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Article link: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/story/2020-04-06/inovio-pharmaceuticals-begins-phase-1-human-trials-for-covid-19-vaccine Author: Mike FreemanPublished on April 6, 2020, San Diego Union-Tribune Developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals, a novel plasmid DNA-based vaccine to prevent COVID-19 has started its first phase of clinical testing with humans. Unlike traditional vaccines, this one will artificially incorporate the DNA of antibodies that destroy the virus into the patient’s own … Read more

Hawryluk, “Heart Damage in COVID Patients Puzzles Doctors”

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Article link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heart-damage-in-covid-patients-puzzles-doctors/ Author: Markian Hawryluk (Kaiser Health News)Published in the Scientific American on April 6, 2020, Hawryluk describes yet another problem that complicates the treatment of COVID-19: 1 in 5 hospitalized COVID-19 patients exhibit injuries to the heart, putting them at an elevated risk for failure. However, unlike previous reports of this issue in … Read more

Biden and Trump Have Phone Call About Pandemic

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https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828341826/biden-and-trump-discuss-coronavirus-response-by-phone Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2020 election and President Trump had a fifteen-minute conversation over the phone about the coronavirus issue. According to both Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, and the President himself, the conversation was warm. The conversation happened in the wake of criticisms of Biden from the Trump … Read more

COVID-19 Projections from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington

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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

Ironic Realities

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This a post I found on instagram that is an example of someone coming up with ways to talk about about the realities of potentially telling our future generations and children about their punishments, rules, or disciplines we having a household by reflecting on our restrictions during this current pandemic and what we went through … Read more