Unfortunately I now feel the need to do a weekly linkfest solely dedicated to the coronavirus pandemic. You can read last week’s edition here. Please be careful and stay safe.
Quote of the Day
"Other countries tackled this as a health emergency. We treated it as just another excuse to fight with each other. We were failed by the people in charge and by our fellow Americans."
(Josh Brown)
Masks
- Masks are a simple tool that America badly bungled. (washingtonpost.com)
- Masks are great. Adding eye coverage is even better. (marketwatch.com)
- A doctor ran 22 miles with a face mask on to prove they don't deplete oxygen levels. (bgr.com)
Testing
- More frequent testing, even if less precise, would go a long way in helping bring the pandemic under control. (nytimes.com)
- How politics played a role in America's failure to ramp up coronavirus testing. (vanityfair.com)
- Delayed test results are as good as useless. (cnbc.com)
- The NIH has awarded $250 million in grants to companies developing rapid coronavirus tests. (statnews.com)
- No single wearable today can tell if you have the coronavirus. (wsj.com)
- Dogs can be trained to sniff out people with the coronavirus. (newatlas.com)
Vaccines
- Why approved vaccines won't be a 'on/off' switch for the virus. (marketwatch.com)
- We really don't know how long antibodies will last. (wsj.com)
- A campaign to convince people to get a Covid-19 vaccine needs to start now. (statnews.com)
- If we have a safe, effective Covid-19 vaccine, anti-vaxxers won't mess things up for the rest of us. (theatlantic.com)
- Vaccine nationalism is a thing. (vox.com)
Treatments
- How the federal government could help alleviate shortages of remdesivir. (nytimes.com)
- Combining anti-viral treatments will help in beating Covid-19. (nytimes.com)
Spread
- The novel coronavirus was spreading in France in late December, a month before the first official death. (sciencedirect.com)
- The coronavirus spread quite effectively through a Georgia overnight camp. (pbs.org)
- Cross-immunities may be keeping health care workers free of the coronavirus. (marginalrevolution.com)
Effects
- What we know about Covid-19 now and how that has changed since March. (ucsf.edu)
- There is evidence that Covid-19 directly affects heart muscles. (newatlas.com)
- The list of weird Covid-19 symptoms keeps growing. (vox.com)
- There seems to have been a reduction in premature births in pandemic. What's going on here? (nytimes.com)
Behavior
- Cleanliness is great, but 'hygiene theater' is a huge waste of time. (theatlantic.com)
- Attitudes toward the coronavirus and the safety of various activities breaks down across political lines. (nytimes.com)
- Why some men refuse to follow coronavirus safety protocols. (scientificamerican.com)
Global
- Social-distancing fatigue is playing a role in flare-ups in Spain and elsewhere. (bloomberg.com)
- The pandemic is going accelerate any debt issues developing countries may have. (wsj.com)
- The pandemic is putting the hurt on global remittances. (nytimes.com)
PPE
- Medical supply chains are still stretched increasing costs for hospitals. (vox.com)
- We are once again seeing shortages of PPE. (bloomberg.com)
School
- School closures helped slow the spread of the virus this Spring. (statnews.com)
- Schools are coming up with plans to close, if and when, there is an outbreak. (wsj.com)
- School nurses have a nearly impossible job this Fall. (npr.org)
- Schools need to plan now for teachers getting sick. (nytimes.com)
- Despite not getting sick, young children may carry high virus loads. (nytimes.com)
- What we can learn from how other countries reopened their schools. (fastcompany.com)
- Kids by their nature are going to have a hard time following all the social distancing required at schools. (theatlantic.com)
- Why aren't more schools planning to have classes outside? (theatlantic.com)
Buildings
- How new buildings will look, post-pandemic. (wsj.com)
- Reopening offices involves reducing the number of contacts as much as possible. (hbr.org)
- If the coronavirus is spread largely indoors, why aren't we talking about ventilation more? (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: buying time. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Acceptable risks in a world full of uncertainty. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Having no plan is just as bad as not following the plan you have. (abnormalreturns.com)
The US
- The US is not facing a single coronavirus situation, the landscape if far more nuanced. (nytimes.com)
- We are going to be living with the coronavirus for a long time. (cnbc.com)
- The Covid-19 data collection system in the US is in a shambles. (arstechnica.com)
- Why contact tracing is failing in many states. (nytimes.com)
- OSHA is getting sued for not doing its job to help protect meatpacking workers. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why is Disney World, in Florida, even open? (vox.com)
- The situation in Arizona seems to be improving. (politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)
