[Share n burn] Today's coronavirus (COVID-19) links - April 20, 2020
In no particular order, here are today's links 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 2,424,419 with 636,183 recoveries, 166,256 deaths, and 760,570 cases in the United States (US). With 25,204 new cases, that represents a second consecutive day with declining numbers of new cases.
Of the cases in the US, the site reports 71,011 recoveries and 40,702 and 32,991 cases in Pennsylvania (1,276 deaths).
The site also reports 3,882,002 tests administered and 115,990 hospitalizations in the US.
- D.tube @rt-international: Global air traffic before & after COVID-19 lockdowns
- Steem @honeybee: A failure of prediction?
- Steem @lifecoma: Behavioural shifts as a result of Shelter-in-place?
- This Maryland dad is using an old Strat-O-Matic baseball game to teach his son writing skills during their quarantine - Subtitle: Strat-O-Matic baseball uses statistics, player ratings and chance to simulate games
- CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm - Subtitle: A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol.
- Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters? - Subtitle: Decentralise over Bluetooth, say 300 scholars
- Engineers Offer DIY Solutions to Coronavirus Equipment Shortages - Subtitle - As hospitals beg for protective gear and ventilators, some individuals are taking a creative approach to the problem
- Facebook just released an interactive COVID-19 map that shows how many people are reporting symptoms in your area
- Chicago Fed economic index plunges, latest measure to reflect crippling effect of coronavirus on U.S. growth - Subtitle: At negative 4.19 in March, it’s the lowest reading for the national snapshot since early in 2009
- Coronavirus News Fatigue Is Officially Setting In - Subtitle: News fatigue isn't new. But it could indicate problematic changes in our behavior with respect to the pandemic.
- Open-source firmware turns CPAP machines into coronavirus ventilators - Subtitle: The Airbreak firmware is a big step toward transforming the Airsense 10 CPAP machine into a non-invasive ventilator.
- COVID-19: Let us not forget the hopeful news, part three - Subtitle: Once again, we bring you hopeful news that shows us the door to freedom from the ravages of COVID-19 and the good that humans do in times of crisis. The amount of hopeful news is accelerating. Good news unto itself.
- Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after getting experimental drug remdesivir
- 3 Economic Policies That Made the COVID-19 Pandemic Worse Than It Had to Be - Subtitle: If economic ignorance is the disease, then education is the cure.
- The Covid-19 Newsletter That's By Doctors for Doctors - Subtitle: A team of critical care specialists has a side project debunking questionable coronavirus theories for other medical professionals.
- Coronavirus lockdown forces UK retailers to shut 382 million square feet of floor space - Subtitle: At a cost of £14.5bn and counting
- Uber will broaden out beyond ride hailing and food delivery during the pandemic to courier packages, medicine, and pet supplies
- The Experts Have No Idea How Many COVID-19 Cases There Are
- ‘Covid Near You’ Crowdsources Data to Predict New Hot Spots - Subtitle: The site relies on people to anonymously report their symptoms. That information could offer early warnings to where the disease is spreading.
- The Pandemic Also Threatens Endangered Languages - Subtitle: Only three individuals speak a language from the Great Andamanese family. Will this irreplaceable heritage survive the new threat?
- Facebook is about to launch its dedicated gaming app and sped up the launch because of the pandemic
- If America is at war with covid-19, it’s doing a bad job of fighting - Subtitle: If the federal government actually treated the pandemic like a war, its response would look very, very different.
- Proposed government coronavirus tracking app falls at the first hurdle due to data breach - Subtitle: The source code of a proposed app for tracing COVID-19 exposed user data after being published online.
- The tricky math of lifting coronavirus lockdowns - Subtitle: Research groups are trying to calculate how much we can safely relax social distancing restrictions, but we’re still missing critical pieces of data.
- Amazon turns to thermal cameras to detect coronavirus spread in warehouses - Subtitle: Thermal imaging could help detect unwell workers, as well as who they have come in contact with.
- The Man Who Beat the 1957 Flu Pandemic - Subtitle: Pioneering virologist Maurice Hilleman, who is little remembered today, also helped develop nine of the 14 children’s vaccines that are now recommended - Note, this was also included in yesterday's, Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for April 19, 2020
- ‘Common Sense’ Is No Substitute for Science in a Pandemic - Subtitle: The scientific method isn't perfect, but it's better than the alternative when lives are at stake.
- Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Building Health
- Data science interest spikes with COVID-19: Here are the online courses to get you started - Subtitle: We're all amateur epidemiologists and data scientists with time on our hands. Here's a look at some of the options to bolster your data science knowhow.
- High school seniors should take next year off in light of the coronavirus, college professor says
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