Hannah-Clarke, “An I.C.U. Nurse’s Coronavirus Diary,” New York Times, April 3, 2020.
“I’ve started to refer to the time before this as peace time. Because this feels like a war.”
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.
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
“All our ICU patients are in their 50s or younger’ – frontline Welsh doctor recovered from virus,” YouTube Video, April 3, 2020
A stark description of what is happening inside a Welsh hospital; the local epidemic has not yet reached its peak.
Some of the Best Photographers in the World Turn to Instagram Amidst Quarantine
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.
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.
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
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
Kvas and Seshadri, “Techniques for Not Touching Your Face, According to Works of Art,” The New Yorker, March 18, 2020.
Hey, who would have known that way back in March this was an issue?
Juhasz, “‘The Wuhan I Know’: A Comic About The City Behind The Coronavirus Headlines,” NPR, April 4, 2020.
A 23-year-old woman originally from Wuhan created a graphic novel about the discrimination she faced and the wonderful qualities of the city itself before it became known for a disease. Part of the graphic novel is included in the link. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/30/823825436/the-wuhan-i-know-a-comic-about-the-city-behind-the-coronavirus-headlines?live=1&utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20200403&utm_term=4500285&utm_campaign=the-new-normal&utm_id=52308689&orgid=
Warzel, “What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us,” New York Times, April 3, 2020.
An examination of the changing knowledge of covid-19, and how groups pursuing disinformation can put those changes to use.