A linkfest dedicated to the coronavirus pandemic is now a weekly feature here on Abnormal Returns. You can read last week’s edition here. Please be careful, get a flu shot and stay safe.
Quote of the Day
"The healthiest way to look at the pandemic—or any difficult period in our lives—is as an opportunity for improvement and personal growth, without pushing away the negative emotions that are a natural by-product of hard times."
(Arthur C. Brooks)
The Path Ahead
- What the next twelve months could look like. (statnews.com)
- 11 experts on how the pandemic ends, or at least fades into the background. (politico.com)
Ed Yong
- Ed Yong, "As pandemics get wider, they feel weirder." (theatlantic.com)
- Andy Slavitt talks with Ed Yong about explaining the pandemic to a broader audience. (podcasts.apple.com)
Testing
- Supply shortages are still hampering testing efforts. (wsj.com)
- The SalivaDirect test is now available in three states. (news.yale.edu)
- Graham Weston, co-founder of cloud-computing company Rackspace Hosting, wants to build a faster, cheaper coronavirus test. (wsj.com)
Spread
- The news, so far, is good on the reopening of schools this Fall. (reason.com)
- The data on the spread of the coronavirus on commercial flights is incomplete, at best. (washingtonpost.com)
- Is the return of in-person college classes seeding the spread of the coronavirus? (politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)
- A 22-second visualization of how Covid-19 spread across the US (fastcompany.com)
Herd immunity
- Effective herd immunity depends on a lot of factors, some of which are unkown. (wsj.com)
- Herd immunity theorists are looking less right as second waves keep popping up. (marginalrevolution.com)
- You can't get effective herd immunity to Covid-19 without a vaccine. (wsj.com)
Vaccines
- Alex Tabbarok, "The challenges of delivering a vaccine in the 19th century–storage, transportation, fear, and incentives–are surprisingly similar to the challenges we face today." (marginalrevolution.com)
- An effective coronavirus vaccine is a dimmer not a light switch. Why you will need to keep wearing a mask for awhile. (msn.com)
- J&J ($JNJ) has launched a big Phase 3 trial for its single-dose coronavirus vaccine. (nytimes.com)
- Inside the logistics of keeping vaccines super-cool on their journey to patients. (nytimes.com)
- What communications we need to undertake prior to the release of a Covid-19 vaccine. (theverge.com)
- Why vaccine researchers haven't focused on children yet. (nytimes.com)
Long haulers
- We are learning more about the longer term of Covid-19 but we still have a long way to go. (washingtonpost.com)
- Another side effect of Covid-19, hair loss. (nytimes.com)
Viruses
- We don't really know how other viruses interact with the novel coronavirus. (wired.com)
- Why Winter, in general, is bad time for viruses. (theatlantic.com)
Outdoors
- The outdoors has been a respite in pandemic. What happens when the weather gets colder? (bloomberg.com)
- What cities can do to encourage outdoor living in Winter. (kottke.org)
Behavior
- The pandemic is open season for shaming. (newyorker.com)
- Why we have become numb to the growing number of Covid-19 fatalities. (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Coronavirus links: a real coronavirus response. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the challenge of holding two competing thoughts on the pandemic in your head a the same 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)
