Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)

Recent and Popular Posts

• Studies provide glimpse at efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and CanSino [ STAT ]
• Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine appears safe and induces immune response [ CNN ]
• A COVID-19 vaccine at what price? Should all Americans be able to get a shot for free? [ USA Today ]
• How Deadly Is Covid-19? Researchers Are Getting Closer to an Answer [ Wall Street Journal ]
• L.A. may become the biggest U.S. city with a second stay-home order [ L.A. times ]
• What Is It That Keeps Most Little Kids From Getting Covid-19? [ New York Times ]
• Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk, New Studies Hint [ Scientific American ]
• Timeline of WHO’s response to COVID-19 [ World Health Organization ]
• In a first, Trump dons masks in visit to a military medical facility [ Reuters ]
• New Treatment for Covid-19 Shows Promise, but Scientists Urge Caution [ New York Times ]
• Facebook suspends anti-mask group for spreading COVID-19 misinformation [ The Verge ]
• CoVID 19 Worldwide Growth Rates [Mark Handley, UCL]
• COVID-19 Census  [cenozoic.in]
• COVID-19 map [Google]
• COVID-19 Tracker [DOMO]
• Los Angeles Department of Public Health Updates
• Coronavirus and COVID-19: All your questions answered [CNET]

Re-Opening

• The Great Coronavirus Rollback: California to Abandon Reopening [Forbes]
• 7 California Counties Re-Close Bars 2 Weeks After Reopening as Coronavirus Spikes [ Newsweek ]
• Coronavirus: Is it time to hit pause on reopening California? [ The Mercury News ]
• After record COVID week, some California counties to reverse reopening plans [ Cal Matters ]
• Los Angeles and San Diego schools to remain online-only in autumn [ The Guardian ]
• When will Disneyland reopen? California postpones release of coronavirus theme park guidelines [ KTLA 5 ]

Vaccines

• Coronavirus vaccine trail shows early promise [CNN]
• U.K. coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test [ L.A. Times ]
• Experimental COVID-19 vaccine safe, generates immune response [ NIH ]
• Controversial ‘human challenge’ trials for COVID-19 vaccines gain support [ Science ]

Testing

• Everyone In Iceland Can Get Tested For The Coronavirus. Here’s How The Results Could Help All Of Us. [Buzzfeed]
• Op-ed: We still have a coronavirus ‘testing problem in this country’ [ CNBC ]
• Large scale COVID-19 antibody testing launched in California [NBC]
• Find a COVID-19 Testing Site [Castlight]
• Iceland’s testing suggests 50% of COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic [ZME Science]
• COVID-19 Blood Test Results Explained [San Miguel, CO]
• ‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response [NY Times]
• ‘We’re behind the curve’: U.S. hospitals confront the challenges of large-scale coronavirus testing [Science]
• Number of people with coronavirus infections may be dozens of times higher than the number of confirmed cases [thl.fi.]
• Orange County’s coronavirus spike continues as case count passes 4,000 [L.A. Times]
• How this South Korean company created coronavirus test kits in three weeks [CNN]
• CDC developing serologic tests that could reveal full scope of U.S. coronavirus outbreak[STAT]
• First Results Of General Population Screening: About 1% Of Icelanders With Coronavirus[Reykjavik Grapevine]
• Why coronavirus antibody testing in one Colorado town could provide a way forward [ABC]
• How Covid-19 immunity testing can help people get back to work [Vox]
• Community Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Patients With Influenzalike Illnesses Presenting to a Los Angeles Medical Center in March 2020 [JAMA]
• FDA authorizes first coronavirus blood test, a key step for showing immunity and testing for vaccines [USA Today]
• Experts warn as many as 1 in 3 coronavirus test results may be incorrectly negative [The Week]
• CDC launches studies to get more precise count of undetected Covid-19 cases [STAT]
• Random Sampling Reveals 0.6% Of Icelanders Infected With COVID-19 [Reykjavik Grapevine]
• Coronavirus ‘game changer’ testing kits could be unreliable, UK scientists say [The Guardian]
• Crappy’ tests to check for past coronavirus infection are flooding the US, lab association says [CNN]
• Trouble in testing land [Oxford]
• Will an Antibody Test Allow Us to Go Back to School or Work? [New York Times]
• Coroners worry Covid-19 test shortages could lead to uncounted deaths [CNN]
• SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases[MedRxiv]
• Why coronavirus testing takes so long: a behind-the-scenes look at the steps involved[Kaiser Health News]
• Less than 1% of Austrians [acutely] infected with coronavirus, study shows [The Guardian]
• NIH Begins Study to Quantify Undetected Cases of Coronavirus Infection [NIH]
• Sewage analysis suggests a New England metro area with fewer than 500 COVID-19 cases may have exponentially more [ABC]
• Variation in False Negative Rate of RT-PCR Based SARS-CoV-2 Tests… [MedRxiv]
• Getting a coronavirus test in Wuhan: fast, cheap and easy [Reuters]
• Abbott announces new coronavirus antibody test that could do up to 20 million screenings in June [CNBC]
• Major League Baseball will conduct the country’s largest coronavirus antibody test on employees [CNBC]
• We’ll see more shortages of diagnostic tests if the FDA has its way [STAT]
• The FDA authorizes 2 more coronavirus antibody tests [CNN]
• Icelandic doctor says the country’s strategy to track spread of coronavirus can be used in US [CNBC]
• Emirates Airline Begins Conducting Rapid COVID-19 Tests For Boarding Passengers [NPR]
• Number of people with coronavirus infections may be dozens of times higher than the number of confirmed cases [thl.fi.]
• Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests [Washington Post]
• Unverified antibody tests ‘risk increasing coronavirus infections’ [The Guardian]
• Sewer systems are a window into the coronavirus pandemic [The Verge]
• Were you unable to get a COVID-19 test? [Buoy Health]
• Study Raises Questions About False Negatives From Quick COVID-19 Test [NPR]
• Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County [Los Angeles County]
• Rapid Open Development and Clinical Validation of Multiple New 3D-Printed Nasopharyngeal Swabs [MedRxiv]
• Why experts are questioning two hyped antibody studies in coronavirus hotspots [The Guardian]
• Evaluation of antibody testing for SARS-Cov-2 using ELISA and lateral flow immunoassays[MedRxiv]
• New Castle County says wastewater analysis shows 15X’s more COVID-19 cases than confirmed tests [WDEL]
• Coronavirus found in Paris sewage points to early warning system [Science]
• In four U.S. state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus – 96% without symptoms [Reuters]

Mental Health

• Coronavirus Anxiety – Helpful Expert Tips and Resources [ADAA]
• Manage Anxiety & Stress [CDC]
• Manage Anxiety & Stress [CDC]
• Free Guide To Living With Worry And Anxiety Amidst Global Uncertainty [Psychology Tools]
• NAMI COVID-19 Resource and Information Guide [NAMI]
• New mental health support program available through University of Alberta [CBC]
• COVID-19 Resources for Mental Health Professionals [Beck Institute]
• The importance of positive emotions during the coronavirus crisis [Lea Waters]

Basics/Health

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 [CDC]
• Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates [Science Daily]
• What we know — and still don’t know — about the coronavirus [CNN]
• California Department of public health [CDPH]
• Don’t Panic: The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus
• Empowering and protecting your family… [Dr. David Price]
• Don’t panic about shopping, getting delivery or accepting packages [Joseph G. Allen]
• How canceled events and self-quarantines save lives, in one chart [Vox]
• COVID-19: What Older Adults Need to Know [CDC, YouTube video]
• Young and Unafraid of the Coronavirus Pandemic? Good for You. Now Stop Killing People[Newsweek]
• https://www.nih.gov/health-information/coronavirus/
• COVID-19: What Older Adults Need to Know [CDC, YouTube video]
• Coronvirus Disease 2019 FAQ [CDC]
• Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19) [WHO]
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak [WHO]
• Coronavirus response [European Commission]
• State & Territorial Health Department Websites [CDC]
• Directory of Local Health Departments [NACCHO]
• Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus [Reuters graphics]
• Coronavirus Infections [MedlinePlus]
• Q&A: Similarities and differences – COVID-19 and influenza [CDC]
• Doctor: How to reduce your vulnerability to coronavirus — when sleeping [CNN]
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Should you take Vitamin D and Vitamin C? [Dr. Mike Hansen]
• Did a Noted Pathologist Write This Viral Coronavirus Advice Letter? [Snopes]
• Young and Unafraid of the Coronavirus Pandemic? Good for You. Now Stop Killing People [Newsweek]
• Excess U.S. deaths hit estimated 37,100 in pandemic’s early days, far more than previously known
• COVID-19 Hotlines & Testing [COVID-19 Census]
• Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now [Tomas Pueyo]
• Caring for well-washed hands [Howard Oakley]
• Risks of COVID-19 In & Around Your Vehicle [KidsAndCars.org]
• Coronavirus disease 2019 [Wikipedia]
• Symptom Checker [Buoy Health]
• Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? [NY Times]
• Vitamin D Supplementation Could Possibly Improve Clinical Outcomes of Patients Infected with Coronavirus-2019 [SSRN]
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [Wikipedia]
• Everything you need to know about the coronavirus [The Verge]
• WHO warns some children develop ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ disease from coronavirus [CNBC]
• CDC analysis shows coronavirus poses serious risk for younger people [The Hill]
• Tips to safely shop at grocery stores in the coronavirus age [Mercury News]

Cleaning/Hygiene

• Three Ways to Protect Yourself and Others from COVID-19  [MIT Medical]
• The New Coronavirus Can Live On Surfaces For 2-3 Days — Here’s How To Clean Them [NPR]
• The Right Way to Kill Coronavirus Germs, According to Cleaning Experts [Good Housekeeping]
• EPA’s Registered Antimicrobial Products for Use Against Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the Cause of COVID-19
• Novel Coronavirus Fighting Products List FAQ [AmericanChemistry.com]
• Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Fighting Products List (March 2020) [AmericanChemistry.com]
• Can coronavirus survive on your Apple Watch or Fitbit? Yes, experts say [USA Today]
• Caring for well-washed hands [Howard Oakley]
• Sun exposure does not kill the coronavirus [PolitiFact]

Face Masks

• The right way to use and clean your mask… [CNBC]
• Salesforce’s Marc Benioff: Face masks can end the U.S. coronavirus crisis within weeks [ CNBC ]
• California’s mask order tests the limits of Newsom’s executive power [ Los Angeles Times ]
• Stanford researchers develop potential method to reuse N95 respirators [Stanford]
• The untold origin story of the N95 mask [FastCompany]
• Face Mask Science – Literature Review [GoddardsJournal]
• Usage of Masks “Flattened” Growth of Coronavirus Cases in Czech Republic [Prague Morning]
• Austria to make basic face masks compulsory in supermarkets [Reuters]
• It’s Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work [Wired]
• No-Sew Pleated Face Mask with Handkerchief and Hair Tie [Japanese Creations]
• A current list of DIY masks for the COVID-19 pandemic [Knowm]
• The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard [Wired]
• N95 decontamination for the COVID-19 pandemic [N95DECON]
• Can Masks Capture Coronavirus Particles? [Smart Air]
• How we’re using ultraviolet light to slow the N95 mask shortage [Nebraska Medicine]
• An Ohio firm’s new machine can sanitize 80,000 masks a day for the coronavirus fight.[cleveland.com]
• FDA green-lights system that can decontaminate “millions” of N95 respirators per day[CNN]

Medicine

• Open Letter to Vice President Mike Pence RE: US COVID-19 Response | local copy [medical professionals]
• Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) [UpToDate]
• Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir to Cost $3,120 for Typical Patient on Private Insurance [ Wall Street Journal ]
• Novel Coronavirus: A Physician’s Guide [ACP]
• COVID-19 [Internet Book of Critical Care]
• COVID-19 and Italy: what next? [The Lancet]
• Hospitals in Covid-19 hotspots are running out of remdesivir [ CNN ]
• COVID-19 Resource Centre [The Lancet]
• A Respiratory Therapist on What He’s Seeing in COVID-19 Patients [ProPublica]
• Aerosol Box [Dr. Hsien Yung Lai, Devon Chang]
• Important coronavirus updates for ophthalmologists [conjunctivitis] [American Academy of Ophthalmology]
• Pink eye may be a rare symptom of coronavirus, doctors say [Today]
• Doctors And Nurses Say More People Are Dying Of COVID-19 In The US Than We Know[Buzzfeed]
• Mayo warns drug touted by Trump as COVID-19 cure will “claim lives” [Post Bulletin]
• COVID-19 Assist [DOC19]
• What is viral load and why are so many health workers getting sick? [The Telegraph]
• Request to Immediately Increase Allocation of Controlled Substances to Combat COVID-19[American Hospital Association]
• New Data on COVID-19 vs Other Viral Infections (Ventilator Outcomes) [MedCram]
• Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery [NEJM]
• Anti-malarial drug touted by Trump was subject of CIA warning to employees [Washington Post]
• FAA bars active pilots from taking chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus [CNN]
• Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment[STAT]

Science and Data

• Confronting a Pandemic (transcript) [Donald G. McNeil Jr. podcast]
• Meet Winter, the 4-year-old llama whose blood might hold a treatment for COVID-19 [CBC]
• Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19  [WaPo]
• Coronavirus update with Ralph Baric (quotes/commentary) [Microbe TV podcast]
• More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study [CNBC]
• Incidence of COVID-19 and Connections with Air Pollution Exposure [MedRxiv]
• Can an Oral Polio Vaccine Help Stop the Coronavirus? [PBS]
• Doctor who pioneered HIV treatment discusses potential Covid-19 drugs [CNBC]
• Germany’s Covid-19 expert: ‘For many, I’m the evil guy crippling the economy’ [The Guardian]
• The Tip of the Iceberg: Virologist David Ho Speaks About COVID-19 [Caltech]
• Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Vaccines [Wired]
• Catching Up to Coronavirus: Top 60 Treatments in Development [GEN]
• LitCovid [NIH NLM]
• How Covid-19 is threatening Central America’s economic lifeline [BBC]
• Incubation Period and Other Epidemiological Characteristics of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infections… [Journal of Clinical Medicine]
• What we’ve learned about the coronavirus — and what we still need to know [STAT]
• Coronavirus Did Not Originate in a Lab—It Is the Product of Natural Evolution, Scientists Say[Newsweek]
• Worst-hit German district to become coronavirus ‘laboratory’ [The Guardian]
• Population study investigates immunity to Covid-19 [HZI]
• Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions… [JAMA]
• Are We Already Missing the Next Epidemic? [Joshua M. Epstein]
• A curated list of the highest quality peer reviewed medical research on Covid-19[Pandemia.fi]
• Airborne spread of infectious agents in the indoor environment [AJIC]
• COVID-19 transmission messages should hinge on science [Lisa Brosseau, ScD]
• Epidemiological and Clinical Aspects of COVID-19; a Narrative Review [NIH]
• Dr. Fauci Has Been Dreading A Pandemic Like COVID-19 For Years [FiveThirtyEight]
• All COVID-19 clinical trials at a glance [TranspariMED]
• Why in times of COVID-19 you can not walk/run/bike close to each other. [Jurgen Thoelen]
• Blood tests show 14% of people are now immune to covid-19 in one town in Germany [MIT]
• Estimates of the Undetected Rate among the SARS-CoV-2 Infected using Testing Data from Iceland [James Stock et al]
• What Immunity to COVID-19 Really Means [Scientific American]
• France had Covid-19 in November… [SCMP]
• Aerosol and Surface Distribution of [SARS-CoViD-2] in Hospital Wards… [CDC]
• SARS-CoV-2 infection in Health Care Workers in a large public hospital in Madrid…[MedRxiv]

Convalescent Plasma

• National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project [CCPP19]
• Florida hospitals need convalescent plasma for coronavirus patients [ Orlando Sentinal ]
• Trials of Plasma From Recovered Covid-19 Patients Have Begun [Wired]
• Convalescent plasma: new evidence for an old therapeutic tool? [NIH]
• Transfusion of serum sourced from resistant individuals [Tom Ritch]
• A promising COVID-19 treatment gets fast-tracked [Johns Hopkins]
• Antiserum [Wikipedia]
• Collecting and evaluating convalescent plasma for COVID‐19 treatment: why and how[VoxSanguinis]
• Recommendations for Investigational COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma [FDA]
• CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance [CoVIg-19]
• ‘Liquid gold’: the rush for plasma and the Covid-19 survivors who want to help [The Guardian]
• UK to trial coronavirus treatments using blood from survivors [The Guardian]
• COVIDPlasma.org [Cerus, AABB]
• The FDA just approved Columbia’s Covid-19 plasma therapy study… [CNBC]
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Current Affairs

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports [WHO]
• Global COVID-19 Deaths Top 500,000 [ NPR ]
• Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases [ CNN ]
• CDC director, FDA commissioner to quarantine after exposure to people who tested positive…  [Washington Post]
• UK researchers hope dogs can be trained to detect coronavirus [The Guardian]
• Positive coronavirus cases shake White House [The Hill]
• Ivanka’s Assistant Tests Positive for Covid-19[CNN]  
• California coronavirus cases top 75,000, and nearly half are in L.A. County [L.A. Times]
• CDC scientists overruled in White House push to restart airport fever screenings… [USA Today]
• Fauci to begin ‘modified quarantine’ [CNN]
• Insurers must refund premiums to drivers amid coronavirus pandemic [ABC]
• This Podcast Will Kill You – CoronaVirus Edition
• Coronavirus: DOD Response [US Dept. of Defense]
• Dr. Scott Gottlieb: ‘Tens of thousands of kids’ with undetected coronavirus could be spreading it [CNBS]
• How canceled events and self-quarantines save lives, in one chart [Vox]
• Open Letter to Vice President Mike Pence RE: US COVID-19 Response (local copy) [medical professionals]
• Laraque says having coronavirus is ‘the worst thing ever’
• More than 370 workers at a pork plant in Missouri tested positive for coronavirus. All were asymptomatic [CNN]
• Coronavirus Policy Response Simulator: Health and Economic Effects of State Reopenings [Penn Wharton]
• Birx: ‘Devastatingly worrisome’ that stay-at-home protesters aren’t practicing social distancing [The Hill]
• Nurses head to the White House to protest lack of protective equipment [CNN]
• Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop. [Tampa Bay Times]
• Up to 150 million Americans are expected to contract the coronavirus, congressional doctor says [CNBC]
• COVID-19 Affecting Impoverished Countries; Antibody Test Given Emergency Use Clearance; Battling Pandemic Misinformation [ AJMC ]
• Here’s How Fast the Coronavirus Could Infect Over 1 Million Americans [Time]
• Should I Quarantine Because of Coronavirus? It Depends on Who You Ask. [ProPublica]
• “I Am Dreading My Next Shift”: An NYC E.R. Doctor Speaks Out About The Escalating Coronavirus Crisis [Gothamist]
• Coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Belarus, but its leader still denies there is a problem [Washington Post]
• George W. Bush Calls for End to Pandemic Partisanship [NY Times]
• Pick of the coronavirus papers: Immune system shows abnormal response to COVID-19 [Nature]
• Brazil Has the Highest Rate of Coronavirus Contagion in the World, Says Study [Folhapress]
• Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience [Harvard]
• CBS News gets first-hand experience with coronavirus, disrupting its New York operations [CNN]
• Trump ‘offers large sums’ for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine [Guardian]
• The Fed tried some extreme measures to stabilize the markets, but may need to go further to steady the ship [CNBC]
• White House Takes New Line After Dire Report on Death Toll [NY Times]
• COVID-19, A Best Case Scenario [ The Nation ]
• Fear and loathing bloom as American tempers fray in coronavirus crisis [Reuters]
• Israel to track mobile phones of suspected coronavirus cases [The Guardian]
• U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to use smartphone location data to combat coronavirus [Washington Post]
• Authorities Eye Using Mobile Phone Tracking COVID-19’s Spread [Threatpost]
• 81 NIH employees have contracted coronavirus [The Hill]
• France Finds 668 Coronavirus Cases Among Aircraft Carrier Crew [Bloomberg]
• Elon Musk’s promised ventilators never delivered to California hospitals, governor’s office says[CNN]
• States work to keep meat plants open despite virus outbreaks [PBS]
• USDA Is Relocating Its Food Inspectors From One Hot Spot to the Next As More Employees Get Sick [Government Executive]
• USDA inspector dies as coronavirus spreads in meat packing plants [USA Today]
• Family Mourns A Dad Who Denied, Then Died From, COVID-19 [NPR]
• Walmart store in Colorado shuts down after coronavirus deaths [CNN]
• 4-month-old daughter of New York City firefighter dies of coronavirus [NBC]
• Remembering UpToDate creator Burton (Bud) Rose, the ‘Steve Jobs of medicine’ [STAT]
• Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing [Daily Beast]
• Coronavirus bill: The biggest expansion in executive power we’ve seen in our lifetime [politics.co.uk]
• GA. lawmakers urged to self-quarantine after senator’s positive coronavirus test [AJC]
• Recording shows Senate intel chair warned of coronavirus disruption in private weeks ahead of time [Politico]
• Minnesota readies antibody COVID-19 response [StarTribune]
• Trump administration contingency planning for coronavirus lasting ’18 months or longer’ [CNN]
• 10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known [The Atlantic]

Spread

• Coronavirus spreads quickly and sometimes before people have symptoms, study finds[ScienceDaily]
• More than 500,000 people have been killed by Covid-19. A quarter of them are Americans [ CNN ]
• Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) [Science]
• The Austrian ski town that spread coronavirus across the Continent [Politico]
• Some of Mexico’s wealthiest residents went to Colorado to ski. They brought home coronavirus [LA Times]
• Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ [NY Times]
• Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially… simulation/animation [Washington Post]
• Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized [CNN]
• ‘Pushing the frontiers’: Long lines for COVID tests, stressed labs delay results as demand spikes [ USA Today ]
• How one soccer game contributed to the spread of coronavirus in Italy [Boston Globe]
• In Canada and abroad, COVID-19 super-spreaders could be anywhere [CTV]
• Five days of worship that set a virus time bomb in France [Reuters]
• 70 Austin Spring-Breakers Chartered A Plane To Mexico. 28 Of Them Now Have COVID-19.[KUT]
• Super-Spreading Event In Washington Suggests Coronavirus Is Airborne Without Coughs or Sneezes [SFist]
• Outbreak of COVID-19 in Germany Resulting from a Single Travel-Associated Primary Case[Lancet]
• A Florida man dies days after hundreds of people exposed to coronavirus walked around the world’s busiest airport [CNN]
• Coronavirus can spread one to three days before symptoms appear: CDC study [Reuters]
• Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing[CNN]
• Coronavirus: New Facts about Infection Mechanisms [NHK]
• How Important Is Speech in Transmitting Coronavirus? [UC Davis]
• 6 feet of social distancing not nearly enough: CDC’s recommendation driving some experts ‘nuts’ [OregonLive]
• What We Need to Understand About Asymptomatic Carriers if We’re Going to Beat Coronavirus [ProPublica]
• How the coronavirus spread through San Jose’s fire department [Mercury News]
• Saliva spray during speech could transmit coronavirus – study [The Guardian]
• A Man With The Coronavirus Hugged People At A Funeral And A Birthday Party. Three Of Them Died. [Buzzfeed]
• The cluster effect: how social gatherings were rocket fuel for coronavirus [The Guardian]
• Coronavirus Was Slow to Spread to Rural America. Not Anymore. [NY Times]
• Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defences [Reuters]
• Singapore’s coronavirus struggle shows colossal task of global containment [Reuters]
• High transmissibility of COVID-19 near symptom onset [MedRxiv]
• COVID-19 outbreak at a large homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing[MedRxiv]
• Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free [Reuters]
• Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 [MedRxiv]

News

• CNN
• NY Times
• CNBC
• Los Angeles Times
• Los Angeles Daily News
• STAT
• stocks [MarketWatch]
• stock futures [CNBC]
• The Atlantic
• The Guardian
• MIT Technology Review
• Reuters
• Washington Post
• Coronavirus Timeline
• Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti

Disinformation, Misinformation, Threats

• Defending Against COVID-19 Cyber Scams [CISA, Homeland Security]
• New journal will vet Covid-19 preprints, calling out misinformation and highlighting credible research [ STAT ]
• Coronavirus misinformation, and how scientists can help to fight it [ Nature ]
• Coronavirus: The misinformation circulating in Africa about Covid-19 [ BBC ]
• COVID-19 Testing Center Hit By Cyberattack [BleepingComputer]
• Working from Home: COVID-19’s Constellation of Security Challenges [Threatpost]
• Enterprise VPN Security [CISA]
• Defending Against COVID-19 Cyber Scams [CISA, Homeland Security]
• Coronavirus: How hackers are preying on fears of Covid-19 [BBC news]
• Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware [Brian Krebs]
• Coronavirus: Fake list of dangerous tips from ‘Stanford’ shared across the internet [The Independent]
• CVS’s Chief Medical Officer Sent All Employees an Email With Coronavirus Misinformation[Mother Jones]
• People’s uncertainty about the novel coronavirus can lead them to believe misinformation, says Stanford scholar [Stanford]
• CBP officers seize fake COVID-19 test kits at LAX [News4Jax.com]
• U.S. Health Department Site Hit With DDoS Cyber Attack [BleepingComputer]
• Deployment Kit for Securing Your Workforce at Home (webcast) [SANS]
• Nation-Backed Hackers Spread Crimson RAT via Coronavirus Phishing [BleepingComputer]
• FTC, FDA warn companies making Coronavirus claims [FTC, FDA]
• Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West, EU document says[Reuters]
• Fake coronavirus tracking apps are really malware that stalks you [CNet]
• FDIC warns of scams saying banks in trouble from outbreak [ABC News]
• INTERPOL warns of financial fraud linked to COVID-19 [Interpol]
• Beware of criminals pretending to be WHO [WHO]
• White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says [ABC]
• Coronavirus Resource Center: Inoculation Against Misinformation [Center for Inquiry]
• Cybersecurity experts come together to fight coronavirus-related hacking [Reuters]
• Ryuk Ransomware Keeps Targeting Hospitals During the Pandemic [BleepingComputer]
• Kwampirs threat actor continues to breach transnational healthcare orgs [Help Net Security]
• Interpol: Ransomware attacks on hospitals are increasing [BleepingComputer]
• NASA under ‘significantly increasing’ hacking, phishing attacks [BleepingComputer]
• Iran, Colombia, and Italy Put Citizens at Risk with COVID-19 Government Mobile Apps[ZeroFOX]
• Beyond Zoom: How Safe Are Slack and Other Collaboration Apps? [ThreatPost]
• COVID-19 Exploited by Malicious Cyber Actors [CISA]
• Six different polls show how Fox’s coronavirus coverage endangered its viewers [Media Matters]
• Phishing emails impersonate the White House and VP Mike Pence [BleepingComputer]
• Documents seen by Guardian show tech firms using information to build ‘Covid-19 datastore’ [The Guardian]
• Malicious forces creating ‘perfect storm’ of coronavirus disinformation [The Guardian]
• Apple and Google’s coronavirus app is a ‘global mass surveillance tool’ [Decrypt]
• Gmail blocked 18M COVID-19-themed phishing emails in a week [BleepingComputer]

Additional

• Medicaid for All Who Face the Coronavirus [Slate]
• Working from Home Temporarily [Take Control Books]
• How this South Korean company created coronavirus test kits in three weeks [CNN]
• Coronavirus: how to keep things in perspective [World Economic Forum]
• South Korea to step-up online coronavirus tracking [SmartCitiesWorld]
• List of Free Software and Services During Coronavirus Outbreak [Bleeping Computer]
• Joint Industry Statement [Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube]
• Colleges offering dorms as hospital overflow for virus cases [ABC News]
• I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA about COVID-19. [Reddit]
• Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Vaccines [Wired]
• NBCU, ViacomCBS, Walt Disney Television and other media companies will run new coronavirus PSAs [CNBC]
• COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO [WHO]
• The Coming Coronavirus Recession and the Uncharted Territory Beyond [Foreign Affairs]
• Native American tribe takes trailblazing steps to fight Covid-19 outbreak [The Guardian]

Archive (Historial Information)

• “…the only thing we have to fear is… fear itself” (audio) [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]
• Coronavirus: What can we learn from the Spanish flu? [BBC]
• Gunnison, Colorado: the town that dodged the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic [The Guardian]
• Covid-19 Is Nothing Like the Spanish Flu [Wired]
• The Deadliest Flu: The Complete Story of the Discovery and Reconstruction of the 1918 Pandemic Virus [CDC]
• Visualizing the History of Pandemics [Visual Capitalist]
• 6 ways climate change and disease helped topple the Roman Empire [Vox]
• Black Death [Wikipedia]
• The Way It Was: Darbyville plague [Baker County Press]
• Yellow Fever [Wikipedia]
• Spanish Flu: a warning from history [Cambridge]
• The Great Influenza [John M. Barry]
• Covid-19 Is Nothing Like the Spanish Flu [Wired]
• Coronavirus: What can we learn from the Spanish flu? [BBC]
• The Deadliest Flu: The Complete Story of the Discovery and Reconstruction of the 1918 Pandemic Virus [CDC]
• Gunnison, Colorado: the town that dodged the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic [The Guardian]
• How Generals Fueled 1918 Flu Pandemic to Win Their World War [The American Conservative]
• Theodore Roosevelt captain followed in footsteps of ship’s namesake by writing bombshell letter [Navy Times]
• Great Depression [Wikipedia]
• “…the only thing we have to fear is… fear itself” (audio) [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]
• Marshall Plan [Wikipedia]
• Coronavirus: 100 days that changed the world [The Guardian]
• Coronavirus: 100 days that changed the world [The Guardian]
• My grandfather’s nightmare of living through a pandemic [CNN]

Updated: NOVEMBER 30, 2020