The daily COVID chronicle - May 4, 2020
In no particular order, here are today's links from Steem and from my RSS feed. Please consider clicking through to upvote any Steem post(s) on the list.
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As mentioned in previous posts, here is a visualization tool for mapping the cases of COVID-19 occurrences.
According to the site, this morning's worldwide number of reported cases was 3,523,121 with 1,130,996 recoveries, 247,752 deaths, and 1,158,341 cases in the United States. This represents 25,572 new cases, a decrease of 3,452 new cases from the day before.
In the US, there are 180,152 cases with 67,686 deaths, and 51,225 cases in my own state, Pennsylvania (2,720 deaths).
- Steem @awah: Covid-19: The growing post-peak debt will be a burden for decades
- Steem @linco: Covid-19: Are we going to survive this pandemic?
- Steem @rt-international: Sweden’s COVID Strategy: Sure Shot or Gamble? | SophieCo. Visionaries
- How Might the Change of Seasons Affect Covid-19? - Short version: The evidence is conflicting. Some experimental evidence suggests that it may, but no one knows.
- Covid-19 Spurs a Road Repair Boom—and Threatens a Bust - Subtitle: Empty highways clear the way for speedier construction projects, but loss of fuel taxes could bring them to a halt.
- Opinion: Coronavirus is crushing emerging markets. Why the rest of the world will pay a price - Subtitle: Essential goods and raw materials to become scarcer, while demand for finished goods declines
- Opinion: Let’s play music and pay musicians as coronavirus stirs the sounds of silence - Subtitle: With concert venues and clubs closed, supporting performers helps the U.S. economy
- Opinion: The coronavirus pandemic is fracturing our notion of a truly united states in America - Subtitle: This goes beyond the usual partisan sniping and is part of a bigger war
- This goes beyond the usual partisan sniping and is part of a bigger war - Subtitle: Doctors are still exploring exactly how the coronavirus affects the body, and what its long-term impacts might be
- 'How is this possible?' Researchers grapple with Covid-19's mysterious mechanism - Subtitle: Doctors are still exploring exactly how the coronavirus affects the body, and what its long-term impacts might be
- Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo
- Tyranny, Not COVID-19, Is America’s Most Dangerous Virus
- Who is at risk from the Chinese Virus? Some hard data at last #coronavirus
- Woman said hospitalized again with COVID-19 a month after recovering - Subtitle - Jisr az-Zarqa resident, 45, was discharged last month after testing negative twice; similar cases around world have sparked speculation about reinfection, accuracy of virus tests
- US Congress Considers Blockchain-Based Voting Amid COVID-19 - Subtitle: The United States Congress is contemplating developing a blockchain-based system to allow remote Senate voting.
- Southwest Airlines CEO says worst of pandemic over for company: ‘I don’t think June will be a good month...hopefully it will be a bit better than May’ - Flying is ‘as safe as humanly possible,’ says CEO Gary Kelly
- Coronavirus Humor, Part VII
- What having Zoom prom is really like, according to 3 high schoolers who had their dances canceled due to the coronavirus
- The Covid-19 Pandemic Shows the Virtues of Net Neutrality - Subtitle: Network speeds are holding up despite the crush of internet traffic. Freed from rules, broadband providers have cut investment in their systems.
- This Mental Health App Is Tailor-Made for Your Pandemic Woes - Subtitle: Covid Coach, from the National Center for PTSD, offers exercises and resources for dealing with uncertainty, isolation, and unemployment.
Thanks for calling my post out.
What I love the most about the different posts is getting a view from different countries where we cannot easily get a view from mainstream media. There are so many views and approaches - mainly because we are still dealing with so many unknowns in this crisis.