by Judith Curry
Time for a new thread.
To kick things off, here are some interesting articles that I’ve spotted recently.
Let me know when you are read for a climate thread, week in review or something.
Its time to face facts, America: masks work [link]
Estimates show Wuhan death toll far higher than official figure [link]
The social distancing culture war has begun [link]
Coronavirus may have been spreading in humans for years [link]
The contrarian coronavirus theory that informed the Trump administration [link]
FDA issues emergency approval for antimalarial drugs in treating coronavirus patients – https://go.shr.lc/2Urn8uP
China created a fail-safe system to track infectious diseases. Here’s why it failed [link]
Transcript of Dr. Fauci’s CNN interview [link]
Dr Zelenko (NYC) treatment protocol [link]
Mathematics of life and death [link]
Lessons from Italy’s response to coronavirus [link]
A brief history of RO and a recipe for its calculation [link]
The lost month: how a failure to test blinded the U.S. to Covid-19 [link]
Abbott’s new CoV test: We’re launching a test that can detect COVID-19 in as little as 5 minutes—bringing rapid testing to the frontlines. http://abbo.tt/IDNOW
Nicholas Christakis on CoV and children [link]
A just-published study finds 79 of 80 hospitalized, high risk patients with COVID-19 (Mar. 3-21 trial) shed viral symptoms within 8 days after Hydroxychloroquine and anti-biotic treatment. One 86-year-old who had irreversible co-morbid symptoms died. https://mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-IHU-2-1.pdf
The virus that tells us who we are [link]
far from presaging climate action, COVID19 highlights 3 huge barriers to decarbonization: climate is more of a prisoner’s dilemma than pandemic; public buy-in for climate action is fickle; & curbing econ activity is neither feasible nor advisable [link]
How anxiety and crises change our political behaviour [link]
All the coronavirus statistics are flawed [link]
Ed Yong: How the pandemic will end [link]
The effect of control strategies to reduce social mixing on outcomes of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China: a modelling study [link]
Dan Sarewitz: What the pandemic is telling us about science, politics and values [link]
Postnormal pandemics: Why COVID-19 requires a new approach to science [link]
Coronavirus exposes the problems and pitfalls of modelling [link]
Ted Nordhaus: How to End the Covid Crisis: a six-point plan for response and recovery.[link]
Rapidly identifying workers who are immune to COVID-19 and virus-free is a priority for restarting the economy | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal https://voxeu.org/article/rapidly-identifying-workers-who-are-immune-covid-19-and-virus-free-priority-restarting-economy#.XnkR-F_kbNM.twitter
via Climate Etc.
March 30, 2020 at 04:23PM
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