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LAT Video Series on COVID
1/31/23: Deer Could be a reservoir of old coronavirus variants, Studies Suggest, NYT
1/19/23: the Atlantic: “Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even Starts”
1/19/23: "Evolution of a Theory: Unredacted NIH emails show effort to rule out the lab theory" Intercept
10/13/22: "
‘We are in trouble’: Study raises alarm about impacts of long covid"
10/11/22: "Medium COVID Could Be the Most Dangerous COVID"
9/15/22: "There’s Terrific News About the New Covid Boosters, but Few Are Hearing It" NYT
9/12/22: "One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood" the Atlantic
8/10/22: "
New Langya virus that may have spilled over from animals infects dozens" WaPO
7/27/22: "Debate deepens over Wuhan wet market's role in kickstarting the pandemic" NatGeo
7/26/22: "Scientists hone argument that coronavirus came from Wuhan market" WaPo
7/11/22: "Is BA.5 the ‘Reinfection Wave’? The latest surge is a test of our pandemic priorities" the Atlantic.
7/7/22: "The worst virus variant just arrived. The pandemic is not over." WaPo
5/19/22: "Jeffrey Sachs Presents Evidence of Possible Lab Origin of Covid-19"
5/19/22: "Watch: Why isn’t there a nasal vaccine for Covid-19 yet?"
5/13/22: "This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state" NPR
3/23/22: "Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates" NYT
2/19/22: "Nowhere is safe: Record number of patients contracted Covid in the hospital in January " Politico
2/17/22: "Nearly three-quarters of Americans have some Covid immunity, experts say" Guardian
2/14/22: "Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle" STAT
1/30/22: "‘Stealth’ Variant No Cause for Alarm, but Could Slow Case Decline" NYT
1/27/22: "
Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands"
1/26/22: "World’s brightest x-rays reveal COVID-19’s damage to the body" NYT
1/24/22: "
The pandemic’s true death toll" the Economist
1/19/22: "Can Omicron Cause Long Covid?" NYT
1/17/22: "‘I have no intention of getting infected’: understanding Omicron’s severity" Guardian
1/15/22: "Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made" NYT
1/12/22: "
Omicron waves appear to slow in New York City, other major metropolitan areas" WaPo
1/7/22: "WHO Says Omicron Variant Is Not “Mild” as New COVID Wave Overwhelms Hospitals"
1/5/22: "Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts" Guardian
12/31/21: NYT, "Studies Suggest Why Omicron Is Less Severe: It Spares the Lungs"
12/28/21: "Coronavirus Can Spread to Heart, Brain Days After Infection" Medscape
12/12/21: "A Scientist’s Guide to Understanding Omicron" NYT
12/2/21: PBS "COVID Omicron Variant"
12/9/21: "Young Latinos are dying of COVID at an alarming rate — the effects could be felt for generations" LAT
11/26/21: "Alarm grows after emergence of new omicron COVID-19 variant" PBS
11/26/21: "What scientists know about the new variant, B.1.1.529." NYT
11/18/21: NYT, "First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Says"
10/31?21: NYT, "Not Everyone in New York Wanted the Coronavirus to Lose"
10/8/21: "COVID-19 is linked to new diabetes cases—but long-term problems could be more severe" Nat Geo
9/28/21: " Column: New evidence undermines the COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it" NYT
9/16/21: NYT, "New Study of Covid Booster Shots Fans Debate Over Benefits"
9/7/21: "Tracking the vaccine race: A look at the vaccines in development to fight COVID-19. By Christine Soares and Travis Hartman, Published Nov. 9, 2020, Updated Sep 7, 2021 (most comprehensive and useful article in many months.)
9/5/21: "New Mu Variant Of Covid-19 Coronavirus: Los Angeles County Reports 167 Cases" Forbes
9/5/21: "Covid Ravaged South America. Then Came a Sharp Drop in Infections." NYT
8/27/21: "At a Children’s Hospital, a Wave of Young Patients Struggling to Breathe" NYT
8/26/21:"Column: The lab leak theory for the origin of COVID-19 is fading" LAT
8/27/21: NYT: "Intelligence Review Yields No Firm Conclusion on Origins of Coronavirus"
8/17/21: "In a Handful of States, Early Data Hint at a Rise in Breakthrough Infections" NYT
8/17/21: "Wildfire smoke linked to almost 20,000 COVID-19 cases last year"
8/16/21: "Covid Vaccines Produced in Africa Are Being Exported to Europe" NYT
8/13/21: "
The lambda COVID variant is in California: 5 things to know" SJMN
8/8/221: "‘This Is Really Scary’: Kids Struggle With Long Covid" NYT
8/4/21: "
I treat pediatric covid patients. What I’m seeing in our hospital scares me" WaPo
7/8/21: "Covid-19 originated naturally and not in lab, virologists conclude" Irish Times
7/8/21: "New cancer treatments may be on the horizon—thanks to mRNA vaccines" NatGeo
7/8/21: "New Zealand children falling ill in high numbers due to Covid ‘immunity debt’" Guardian
6/6/21: "Three things to know about the long-term side effects of COVID vaccines" Univ of Alabama
6/29/21: "Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may provide years of protection from COVID-19"
6/29/21: "A third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine is found to boost immune response" NYT
6/18/21: "In hunt for Covid’s origin, new studies point away from lab leak theory" Guardian
6/14/21: NYT "Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins"
5/28/21: "Have half the world’s COVID-19 deaths gone uncounted? Here’s why some experts think so" LAT
5/28/21: "Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon" NYT Opinion
5/7/21: Vox - "How the world missed more than half of all Covid-19 deaths"
5/7/21: NPR - "New Study Estimates More Than 900,000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S."
5/3/21: NYT "Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe"
3/27/21: "Comparing the COVID-19 vaccines"
3/23/21: "Covid-19 has shown humanity how close we are to the edge" Guardian
3/19/21: "Don’t Be Surprised When Vaccinated People Get Infected, Post-immunization cases, sometimes called “breakthroughs,” are very rare and very expected."
3/16/21: "
Some long-haul covid-19 patients say their symptoms are subsiding after getting vaccines"
2/23/21: "California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: ‘The devil is already here’" LAT
2/18/21: "Two mutated coronaviruses have merged into one hybrid virus. Here's how that happened"
2/17/21: "Pfizer says South African variant could significantly reduce vaccine protection"
2/15/21: "Lancet Report: 40% of U.S.
COVID
Deaths Were Preventable. The Country Needs Universal Healthcare Now"
2/16/21: "Coronavirus one year in", Vox News
2/16/21: "Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections" (frequent updates) NPR
2/15/21: "Lancet Report: 40% of U.S. COVID Deaths Were Preventable. The Country Needs Universal Healthcare Now"
2/11/21: "40 Percent of US COVID Deaths Could Have Been Averted if It Weren't for Trump: Lancet Report"
2/6/21: "Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections" NPR
2/4/21: "Indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans" Guardian
2/3/21: "AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may cut spread of virus"
2/3/21: NYT: "Vaccine News Gives Hope for Spring, if Enough People Get the Shots"
2/2/21: "Mapping Los Angeles’s Unequal Covid-19 Surge" NYT Map
2/2/21:"Understanding Coronavirus Variants, Mutations and Vaccines"
2/2/21: "What’s the hold up? Why more vaccines haven’t been administered" (Brookings)
2/1/21: "The COVID-19 pandemic can't be managed, it has to be eradicated"
1/28/21: "The New Virus Variants Make the Next 6 Weeks Crucial"
1/27/21: "Why some coronavirus variants are more contagious—and how we can stop them"
1/27/21: "Vaccine Shortages Hit E.U. in a Setback for Its Immunization Race"
1/25/21: "Here's what could happen next with the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine" CNN
1/25/21: "UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir"
1/25/21: "The coronavirus 10 times more deadly than Covid" BBC
1/23/21: "Can the COVID-19 Vaccine Beat the Proliferation of New Virus Mutations?"
1/23/21: LAT: "Could a homegrown coronavirus strain be partly to blame for California’s surge?"
1/23/21: "Scientists discovered a surprising new way the coronavirus might spread"
1/23/21: "The South African coronavirus mutation can infect multiple times, could hamper vaccine"
1/22/21: "Covid-19 outbreak in Manaus suggests herd immunity may not be possible"
1/21/21: "Dr. Fauci: Covid-19 Vaccine Seems To Be Less Effective Against New “Mutant” Virus"
1/21/21: "Drug Prevents Coronavirus Infection in Nursing Homes, Maker Claims"
1/21/21: "Why scientists are more worried about the Covid-19 variant discovered in South Africa"
1/19/21: "How Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos" ProPublica
1/19/21: "Warning world is on ‘brink of a catastrophic moral failure,’ WHO chief denounces vaccine-hoarding by rich nations
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1/11/21: "Can you spread Covid-19 if you get the vaccine?"
1/5/21: UK scientists worry vaccines may not protect against S.African coronavirus variant
12/30/20: "Fluid dynamics of COVID-19 airborne infection suggests urgent data for a scientific design of social distancing"
12/21/20: The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep
12/16/20: "Here’s what we know about the new coronavirus mutation that’s spreading rapidly"
12/16/20: "A wild mink in Utah has Covid-19. Veterinarians fear this is just the beginning" Vox
12/16/20: People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong" NYT
12/11/20: Research finds 5 genes linked to severest form of COVID-19
12/7/20: Danish study "PFAS Chemical Associated With Severe Covid-19"
12/4/20: "Covid Survivors With Long-Term Symptoms Need Urgent Attention, Experts Say"
12/1/20: Already had the coronavirus? You could get it again
11/25/20: What You Need to Know About the AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines
11/16/20: Moderna coronavirus vaccine trial produces best results yet
11/11/20: Types and Phases of Clinical Trials
11/10/20: The Vaccine News Is Good. Here’s the Bad News.
11/8/20: UK scientists seek mutant Covid samples from Danish mink farms
10/12/20: The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed far more lives than reported, study says
10/11/20: ‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors
10/8/20: Doctors discovered a terrifying new coronavirus symptom that’s killing patients
9/30/20: "This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic, It’s not R."
9/26/20: "America’s “Patchwork Pandemic” Is Why We Haven’t Gotten COVID-19 Under Control"
9/13/20: "More than 200 meat plant workers in the U.S. have died of covid-19. Federal regulators just issued two modest fines"
9/11/20: Amazon meatpacking plants, a COVID-19 hotspot, may be ground zero for next pandemic
9/10/20: "As students return, the deaths of at least six teachers from covid-19 renew pandemic fears" WaPo
9/7/20: "Pharmaceutical Companies Ruin Prospects for COVID-19 Vaccine "October Surprise". That's a Good Thing."
9/1/20: "U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine" WaPo
8/31/20: "COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven’t Had Any Symptoms"
8/29/20: NYT "Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be."
8/27/20: "There is a path out of America’s COVID-19 mess—if we choose to take it" NatGeo
8/27/20: "Six feet may not be enough to protect against coronavirus, experts warn" WaPo
8/25/20: "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Confirmed in the Netherlands and Belgium"
8/20/20: "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19"
8/18/20: "We now have the best evidence yet that everyone develops long-term coronavirus immunity after infection — and it's not just about antibodies"
8/19/20: "Young People Are Primary Coronavirus Spreaders, WHO Warns"
8/17/20: "What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?" NYT.
8/15/20: "COVID-19: Peru sees spike in number of hospitalised children"
8/14/20: "The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back":
8/13/20: "These Covid-19 vaccine candidates could change the way we make vaccines — if they work" Vox
8/11/20: "San Quentin’s coronavirus outbreak shows why ‘herd immunity’ could mean disaster " LAT
8/11/20: Fauci ‘seriously doubts’ the Russia vaccine is ready for widespread use
8/11/20: "Why does COVID-19 strike some and not others? Fauci sees an answer in new study"
"Why some people who haven't had COVID-19 might already have some immunity" 8/4/20
"We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus, We were wrong." UCSF
8/1/20: "Alabama Cop Who Seemingly Recovered From COVID-19 Dies a Month Later"
7/26/20: "Fauci explains why you’re not getting a coronavirus vaccine anytime soon"
7/20/20: "As COVID-19 spreads, potentially deadly fungus infects L.A. County healthcare facility" LAT
7/19/20: Can you get COVID twice?
7/17/20: "COVID-19 Linked to Rare Neurological Syndrome Guillain-Barre Syndrome"
7/17/20: "Why those most at risk of COVID-19 are least likely to respond to a vaccine"
7/16/20: LAT "Coronavirus spreads rapidly in workplaces as mask, distancing rules flouted"
7/16/20: "COVID Information Is Already Disappearing After Trump Shifts Control From CDC"
7/16/20: "What Does Disappearing Immunity To Covid-19 Mean For A Vaccine?"
7/16/20: "California, Texas and Florida Emerge as COVID-19 Hotspots"
7/15/20: "Covid-19 Risk Doesn’t Depend (Much) on Blood Type, New Studies Find"
7/12/20: "My Patient Caught Covid-19 Twice. So Long to Herd Immunity Hopes."
7/10/20: "Coronavirus Seems to Turn Antibodies Against Us, Tricking Them into Attacking Brain"
7/10/20: "Coronavirus hijacks cells, forces them to grow tentacles, then invades others"
7/10/20: "A plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won’t act, scientists say" LAT
7/10/20: "We're losing the war on the coronavirus"
7/10/20: "Research ArticleCORONAVIRUS
Structure-based drug designing and immunoinformatics approach for SARS-CoV-2"
7/10/20: Brain Damage And Hallucinations Associated With Even Mild Covid
7/9/20: COVID-19 and blood type: What’s the link? LAT
7/7/20: Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale NYT
7/8/20: Scientists warn coronavirus pandemic could cause wave of brain damage
7/6/20: "Think a 'mild' case of Covid-19 doesn’t sound so bad? Think again"
7/6/20: Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity
7/5/20: Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count NYT
7/4/20: 239 Experts With One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne NYT
7/2/20 "This coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why" WaPo
7/2/20 "Researchers find neurological damage in four children with coronavirus inflammatory syndrome"
6/25/20 "CDC: Coronavirus Has Infected 10 Times More People Than Previously Thought"
6/24/20 "To Fight Coronavirus, You Have to Understand How Weird It Is"
6/22/20: Researcher: Asymptomatic Coronavirus Patients Can Still Face Organ Damage
6/19/20: How Hawaii Became a Rare Covid Success Story
6/18/20: "‘So much worse than I ever thought it would be’: Virus cases skyrocketing among Latinos"
6/18/20: You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long.
6/17/20: 44 Percent of California's New Coronavirus Cases Are People Under 35: Study
6/17/20: Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHO
6/16/20: Hadassah doctors crack the cause of fatal corona blood clots
6/13/20: What ICU doctors have learned about COVID-19 — and how they're prepared for a 2nd wave
6/12/20: Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply
6/12/20: The emerging long-term complications of Covid-19, explained
6/11/20. "Can old vaccines from science’s medicine cabinet ward off coronavirus?"
June 8: Study says blood type may determine severity of coronavirus cases
June 4: COVID-19 can last for several months
June 3: Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
June 2, NYT: Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months: Our “hidden enemy,” in plain sight.
June 2, Senior Citizens in Subsidized Housing Have Been Dying Alone at Home, Unnoticed Because of Coronavirus Distancing
To Prevent Future COVID-19s
The politics of Coronavirus
9/5/21: "Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?" Guardian
2/9/21: "Trump Team Suppressed COVID Tests, Weakened CDC Guidance to Protect President: Report"
1/22/21: "Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated" Chomsky and Prashad
12/20: "
Neoliberal economics, planetary health, and the COVID-19 pandemic: a Marxist ecofeminist analysis"
11/26/20: Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts
10/5/20: "Trump official pressured CDC to change report on Covid and kids"
9/9/20:"These Big City Mayors Want Green Stimulus Spending to Counter Covid-19"
8/21/20: "Only Medicare For All Can Beat Covid" CounterPunch
July 13/20: "Will COVID-19 Spell the End of Outdoor and Environmental Education?"
May 27: TALE OF TWO CRISES:BILLIONAIRES GAIN AS WORKERS FEEL PANDEMIC PAIN
May 21: Billionaires-Gain inTwo-month-Covid-Pandemic
May 1/20: The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations
May 1: New Yorker, "Coronavirus the the change in the structure of feeling"
Why do smart people believe myths about COVID? (BBC)
April 12: NYT: Cellphone towers in the UK burned down as internet conspiracy theory circulating argues for a link between COVID19 and 5G wireless.
April 9: Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation
April 7: Giroux on "Neoliberalism" and COVID
April 4: How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook – with millions of lives at stake
March 28: NYT, As Virus Spreads, China and Russia See Openings for Disinformation
March 27: Trump questions New York’s plea for critical equipment WaPo
March 25: Reuters: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak
March 22: Anthony Fauci interview in Science
March 18: Russian media ‘spreading Covid-19 disinformation’
March 13: Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for disaster capitalism
The simplest way to spot coronavirus misinformation on social media
Sen. Tom Cotton repeats fringe theories of COVID-19
March 3: NYT: Global Health Crisis: 1; Economic Policymakers: 0
Trump's appointees make things worse: "White House Knew Of Coronavirus' 'Major Threat,' But Response Fell Short" NPR
Trump administration barred a top US disease expert from speaking freely to the public
Harvard Health Professor Slams Trump’s ‘Catastrophic Failure’ On Coronavirus
Related and some background:
12/3/21: "A Disastrous Collision Between COVID and HIV May Have Caused the Omicron Variant"
10/6/21: "‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans"
2/9/21: "Did the Climate Crisis Enable the Coronavirus Pandemic?"
Nov 2020: Interfaith: Protecting Rainforests and avoiding future COVID pandemics
May 7/20: The (Largely) Unspoken Connections Between Climate Change and Coronavirus
May 2: She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?
How humans created a pandemic highway
Oxford University Blog on viruses and vaccines
April 15: There are more viruses than stars in the universe. Why do only some infect us?
March 30: Community Care: An Indigenous Response to Coronavirus
March 24: Welcome to the Virosphere NYT
March 25; WaPo: New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.
March 23: Where Pandemics Come From - and How to Stop Them
March 18; Why soap is preferable to bleach in the fight against coronavirus
March 17: What is the hospital capacity in Los Angeles with different time scenarios and infected population? . ProPublica
March 15: Why Burning Fossil Fuels is to Today’s Pandemics as Fleas were to the Black Death
Yes its worse than the flu 3/1/20 Guardian
What Can the Coronavirus Teach Us, McKibben New Yorker
How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common, February 27, 2020
Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for disaster capitalism, Naomi Klein
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America (11/2017
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COVID-19 Update: Doctors Without Borders calls for evacuating Greece’s refugee camps
The 1918 "Spanish flu" was actually born in Kansas
Community College Districts and CDC Statements:
UNESCO worldwide online resources for COVID education
State of California free online teaching resources on COVID
LACCD guidelines for students wanting a P/NP grade instead of a letter grade
Interim Recommendations for U.S. Households with Suspected or Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Tips for faculty going online (can't say I agree with all of it).
March 14: LACCD calendar change and cancellations, Chancellor letter
March 11: Chancellor says LACCD to go online March 18th
March 10: Coronavirus update LACCD
March 4: LACCD District Academic Senate COVID-19 statement
March 18: SMC Dropping courses due to crisis: a guide
March 11: SMC Update, courses go online next week, March 18
March 10: SMC to remain open
March 10: SMC Guide to COVID-19
March 4: SMC bulletin on COVID-19 measures underway
March 6: SMC letter to the community
LAT: Up do the day statistics for COVID-19 in California (refresh the page to update)
Get the Facts About Coronavirus CDC
This graph from the NYT speaks volumes..
January 2020 to May 30 2020
May 30: What Will Happen as the Coronavirus Pandemic Epicenter Moves to Latin America
May 30: Global report: new clues about role of pangolins in Covid-19 as US severs ties with WHO
May 29: NatGeo: A COVID-19 vaccine has passed its first human trial. But is it the frontrunner?
May 29: Guardian: Asymptomatic coronavirus: how common is it and can its spread be contained?
May 27: AARP: Unusual Symptoms of COVID-19 You Need to Know About
May 22: Cuba credits two drugs with slashing coronavirus death toll
May 21: NatGeo "Did a mink just give the coronavirus to a human? Here’s what we know."
May 20: 'We've been muzzled': CDC sources say White House putting politics ahead of science
May 15: Nat'l Geo: What, where, how, when, which about coronavirus
May 14: The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19
May 14: "T cells found in COVID-19 patients ‘bode well’ for long-term immunity"
May 13: Trump Administration Won’t Guarantee Universal Access to COVID-19 Vaccine
May 12: NYT: Top Health Experts Paint Bleak Picture of Pandemic
5/11/20 "The Light at the End: the pandemic is remaking who we are. It is an opening to a new world where our capacity to love each other is integral to our survival."
May 11: Newsweek: 100 Dead in Navajo Nation as Coronavirus Spreading at 'Alarming Rate,' Says President of Native American Territory
May 10: WaPo: Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body
May 7: NYT: The coronavirus is striking newer, less established Latino communities — like several in Oregon, Iowa and Washington — with particular force.
May 7: To prevent the next pandemic, it’s the legal wildlife trade we should worry about
May 7: How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
May 6: LAT: COVID by the numbers in LA County and the state.
May 5: Truthout: Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in US
May 5: LAT: Scientists say a now-dominant strain of the coronavirus appears to be more contagious than original
May 4: Fauci: Nat'l Geo: No scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab
May 4: WaPo: Draft report predicts covid-19 cases will reach 200,000 a day by June 1
May 4: NYT: Coronavirus Live Updates: Daily Death Toll Will Nearly Double by June, Trump Administration Models Predict
May 2: What the Coronavirus Models Can’t See
May 2: European leaders join forces to combat Covid-19
April 28: Atlantic: Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
April 27 NYT: C.D.C. Adds New Symptoms to Its List of Possible Covid-19 Signs
April 27: What if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last?
April 25: 'No Evidence' Yet That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Are Immune, WHO Says
April 24: Vietnam might have the most effective response to COVID-19
April 22: WaPo "A Mysterious Blood-Clotting Complication Is Killing Coronavirus Patients"
April 20: Medium: A New Study Indicates Asymptomatic People are Still Highly Contagious
April 19: No. COVID is not like the flu or car crashes
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click here for full article
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April 18: Where You Live Affects What Your COVID-19 Test Means
April 13: NBC/AP Can old vaccines help in dealing with COVID-19?
April 12: NYT: Coronavirus in California, interactive maps
April 8: Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus
April 7: NPR: Coronavirus State-By-State Projections: When Will Each State Peak?
April 2: The Pandemic is turning the natural world upside down
April 1: US military warned of coming coronavirus in 2017, Trump did nothing
March 31, NYT: White House economists warned in 2019 that a pandemic could devastate America
March 27: Millions of Americans are about to lose their health insurance in a pandemic
March 27: BBC, Will covid-19 have a lasting impact on the environment?
March 26: No, chloroquine is not a proven treatment for COVID-19 unless you watch Fox News and read Trump tweets: the facts here.
March 25: Covid-19 is Nature's Wakeup Call, Monbiot, Guardian
March 25: CA Teen dies of COVID-19 after failing to show insurance
March 25: NYT: Trump Wants to ‘Reopen America.’ Here’s What Happens if We Do
March 24: ProPublica: Doctors Are Hoarding Unproven Coronavirus Medicine
March 22: Loss of sense of smell and taste might signal Covid virus
March 22: DW: Where did Covid come from? How long does it last on surfaces? Your questions answered.
March 21: LAT: Coronavirus Drugs, what we know
March 20: NYT. Coronavirus might overwhelm the US if no urgent action is taken
March 20: Disasters and crises bring out the best in us TED
March 19: Younger adults are large percentage of coronavirus hospitalizations in United States
March 18: Japanese flu drug 'clearly effective' in treating coronavirus, says China
March 17: The Nordic Secret to Battling Coronavirus: Trust, Yes magazine
March 17: 10 Positive Updates on the COVID-19 Outbreaks From Around the World
March 17: NYT, Hundreds of Scientists Scramble to Find a Coronavirus Treatment
March 14: This Coronavirus Is Unlike Anything in Our Lifetime, and We Have to Stop Comparing It to the Flu
March 14: Dutch researchers first to find Covid-19 antibodies: report
March 14: Mapping the coronavirus worldwide WaPo
March 14: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Research and Statistics
March 14: 9 charts that explain the coronavirus pandemic
March 14: The World has a plan for fighting coronavirus. Most countries are ignoring it. NYT
March 13: They survived the coronavirus, then tested positive again, LAT
March 12: UCSF page on research, FAQs
March 11: WHO declares COVID-19 pandemic
March 10: 15 Myths about coronavirus (COVID-19) from the WHO
March 10: WaPo Coronavirus is mysteriously sparing kids and killing the elderly. Understanding why may help defeat the virus
March 9: The US is not ready for what is about to happen
March 8: Should you stop going to the gym? NYT
March 5: Are there two strains of Coronavirus?
March 4, Swiss Scientists Have Recreated the Coronavirus in a Lab
March 4, COVID-19 lingers on toilets but disinfectants kill it, France24
March 4: Medical Screener at LAX tests positive, NBC News
March 3, Nat'l Geo, US has only a fraction of the medical supplies it needs to combat the coronavirus
March 5: These Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Coronavirus
March 2: What to do for the upcoming COVID-19 pandemic, UCSD
February 29, NYT Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Spread of the Outbreak
February 27, "The Coronavirus goes global" NYT podcast and transcript
February 25, Coronavirus Update and Links
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Researchers Step Up Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine
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What is the Coronavirus COVID-19?
3 Charts to better understand COVID-19
Basics of the virus, infographic
Symptoms of COVID-19
Timeline of the virus up to end of Jan 2020
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