Documentary of Nanjing during COVID-19
A documentary made by a Japanese director living in Nanjing documenting the rules implemented in Nanjing to contain COVID-19.
Cunningham, “A City Nurse,” The New Yorker, April 4, 2020.
” Cunningham, an admirer of the “Country Doctor” photographs that W. Eugene Smith took for Life, in 1948, wanted to document what was going on in the intensive-care units and got permission from the hospital to bring her camera to work. She photographed her friend over two long shifts in mid-April.”
Jones, “History in a Crisis-Lessons from Covid-19,” The New England Journal of Medicine, April 30, 2020.
” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you must attend to local circumstances. But there is something about epidemics that has elicited an opposite reaction from historians: a desire to identify universal truths about how societies … Read more
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A response by a 16 year old to COVID-19
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-presidential-recognition-ceremony-hard-work-heroism-hope/ A 16-year old Korean-American boy, T.J Kim, who was learning how to ride a plane used his skill to bring medical supplies to rural hospitals in Virginia and received recognition from President Trump. This article / news was posted on the U.S. Embassy Seoul’s Facebook page and reached my Facebook wall. It also seems … Read more
Pearson, “What It’s Like To Be a Pregnant Physician During the Coronavirus Outbreak,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2020.
” Now that I am visibly pregnant and the world is convulsing in the grip of this pandemic, I imagine my son one day seeing a picture of me in my P.P.E.—gown, gloves, mask, eye protection—with a protruding belly. I want him to know that, while he breathed through me, I was working to help … Read more
Coronavirus Researcher Shot in Pennsylvania
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8290203/Mystery-coronavirus-researcher-37-verge-significant-findings-killed-murder-suicide.html Bing Liu, a 37 year old researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, was shot to death in his home. The article states he was on the verge of major coronavirus findings. The reasons for the shooting are unclear, but the article seems to implicate another man who was found dead outside later.
Billionaires and Scientists Push Trump on COVID-19
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
California Dealing with High Unemployment
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