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Coronavirus Things to Know

Latest detailed coverage: 
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"
  • 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​​
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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)
  • COVID-19 Update: Doctors Without Borders calls for evacuating Greece’s refugee camps
  • The 1918 "Spanish flu" was actually born in Kansas​​
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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)
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Get the Facts About Coronavirus​ CDC
 

​This graph from the NYT speaks volumes.. 
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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, (click here for full article)
  • 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
  • You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
  • Researchers Step Up Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine
  • Scoop: Lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated (Axios)
  • Incubation Period might be longer than 14 days WaPo 2/22/20
  • 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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