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COVID-19
Curated by Peter Hulm
Special sections: Science, Impact, Response, Economy, UN
COVID-19 scoreboard
Reported cases and deaths by country, ordered by totals
UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard: $1.19-$44 per dose — source — 12 January 2021
Science
WHO panel advises against hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19 — abcnews — 2 March 2021
25 Sure Signs You’ve Already Had Covid-19 Without Realizing It — icyclisme — 28 February 2021
New evidence of SARS-CoV-2 spreading on planes — news-medical — 28 February 2021
Masks yes but no social distancing on flights (LINK)
Is England's Covid roadmap the right way out of lockdown? The experts' view — theguardian — 22 February 2021
A surprising number of healthcare workers are rejecting the vaccine, despite having witnessed the immense suffering of the COVID-19 pandemic: they fell for disinformation — business-insider — 18 February 2021
Wall Street Journal: China refused to give WHO raw data that could have helped determine when and how COVID-19 started — businessinsider — 13 February 2021
CDC recommends double masking for first time — thehill — 10 February 2021
About 60% of U.S. nursing home staff declined Covid vaccines, Walgreens exec says — cnbc — 9 February 2021
Europe's oldest person – a 116-year-old French nun – survives COVID-19 — AP/euronews — 10 February 2021
Covid: WHO says 'extremely unlikely' virus leaked from lab in China — bbc — 9 February 2021
U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Receiving Both Vaccine Doses — huffpost — 1 February 2021
Floridians File Hundreds Of COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effect Reports
Impact
High Staff Turnover at U.S. Nursing Homes Poses Risks for Residents' Care — nytimes — 1 March 2021
USDA Data: Nearly All Pandemic Bailout Funds Went to White Farmers — tntribune — 27 February 2021
U.S. reaches 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus — nbcnews — 23 February 2021
Captain Tom Moore, who raised $45m for the U.K.'s NHS, dies aged 100 after testing positive for coronavirus — cnn — 2 February 2021
Response
Texas becomes biggest US state to lift COVID-19 mask mandate — apnews — 3 March 2021
All English households with school children offered twice weekly COVID tests — reuters — 28 February 2021
Catchup: A look back at assurances made at the time on the anniversary of the first Swiss Covid case: Daniel Koch, who headed a team of experts looking at the disease, said that the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 seems to be fairly similar to the seasonal flu — lenews — 24 February 2021
"Bertrand Kiefer, a doctor, ethicist and editor of the Swiss Medical Review, criticised some of the early communication regarding the pandemic in Switzerland. He thinks it was a mistake to reassure the public in the face of such high uncertainty."