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]
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