by Judith Curry
My latest roundup of articles
NY: first results from a statewide antibody study: 14% [link]
A leaked Chinese study finds no benefit from anti-viral remdesivir in treating COVID-19 patients. https://reason.com/2020/04/23/leaked-study-finds-no-benefit-from-antiviral-remdesivir-in-treating-covid-19/…
South Korean patients who test positive for reactivated COVID have little or no infectivity [link]
COVID-19 causes strokes in young adults [link]
COVID-19 superspreader events in 28 countries: critical patterns and lessons [link]
on the use of saliva as a diagnostic sample for #SARSCoV2 testing [link]
CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus [link]
U.S. intelligence officials are still weighing the possibility that coronavirus might have escaped by accident from a Chinese lab. [link]
A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients [link]
Pandemic death toll twice as high as official figure [link]
Coronavirus patients don’t realize they have pneumonia [link]
Coronavirus: curse of the ‘Bat Woman’. What went on in the Wuhan lab? [link]
Coronavirus has mutated to become far deadlier in Europe than the milder strain that made its way to the US west coast, Chinese study finds https://mol.im/a/8237849
COVID19 – whats wrong with the models? [link]
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body [link]
COVID-19 ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated [link]
A roundup of COVID drugs/vaccines being tested [link]
Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County [link]
Forecasting S-curves is hard [link]
Contamination delayed CDC’s coronavirus test, scientists say [link]
public health interventions with the epidemiology of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan based on analysis of 32,000+ lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wuhan till Mar 8 appeared on April 10. [link]
Dont try to predict COVID19. if you must, use deep uncertainty methods [link]
Policy and economy
Lockdowns don’t work [link]
Models, math and COVID19: A public health response [link]
Ed Dolan’s roadmap for ending the COVID lockdown [link]
Coronavirus antibody testing shows LA County outbreak is up to 55 times bigger than reported cases. [link]
The secret to Germany’s COVID19 success: Angela Merkel is a scientist [link]
COVID19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives [link]
Doubt is essential for science – but for politicians its a sign of weakness [link]
Viral politics [link]
New pathogen, old politics [link]
Vietnam’s low cost COVID strategy [link]
We’re not going back to normal. What will the new normal look like? [link]
COVID: do governments ever truly listen to the science? [link]
What the WHO said about COVID19 as the pandemic unfolded [link]
How China deceived the WHO [link]
Inside America’s Two-Decade Failure to Prepare for Coronavirus https://politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/11/america-two-decade-failure-prepare-coronavirus-179574…
Sociology
How to communicate effectively about the pandemic [link]
Could Covid-19 Affect Public Trust in Science? [link]
Typhoid Mary left a trail of scandal and death [link]
Rethinking human ecology in the age of COVID19 [link]
How not to lose the COVID19 communication war [link]
Is the virus giving us back philosophy [link]
via Climate Etc.
April 23, 2020 at 06:48PM
Iowa Climate Science Education 
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