A proposal to speed up herd immunity to the coronavirus gets White House attention “but appalls top scientists.” / The Washington Post See also: “Which states had the best pandemic response?” / POLITICO Paris and other French cities enter a curfew to curb the virus’s rapid spread. / BBC News Helen Branswell:
The Czech Republic has Europe’s highest rate of coronavirus infection, despite July’s massive “Farewell Covid” party. / NBC News In the UK, the resurgence is blamed on lax social distancing and the prime minister’s public health directives. / Vox Cristiano Ronaldo becomes yet another major soccer player to test
An otherwise healthy 25-year-old man from Nevada was reinfected with Covid-19, and the second bout was worse than the first. / BBC News Johnson & Johnson pauses its Covid vaccine study due to unexplained illness in a participant. / STAT Sean Penn has created the United States’ largest coronavirus
A new wave of COVID-19 cases is building across the United States, a harbinger of difficult winter months ahead. / Vox President Trump will hold a rally today in Florida, though he won’t say whether he has tested negative yet for the coronavirus. / The Washington Post “Taking Page From
Spain imposes a state of emergency on Madrid to bring down COVID-19 infection rates. Cases are inching up in New England. / BBC News, The New York Times Wearing masks doesn’t harm your health, but the idea has lived on through multiple debunkings. / The Atlantic See also: See if
The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the UN’s World Food Program for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic. / The New York Times Most of the infections faced by our ancestors are still with us. A review of how other pandemics came to
The New England Journal of Medicine condemns the White House’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and calls for Trump to be voted out of office. / The New England Journal of Medicine Dexamethasone, the steroid being administered to the president as part of his kitchen-sink treatment for COVID-19,
Washington, DC, records its highest number of daily coronavirus cases in more than four months. / WAMU Several members of the Pentagon's senior leadership are quarantining after a top Coast Guard official tests positive. / CNN First President Trump says he won’t negotiate a new fiscal stimulus package, then
The US has reported more than 97,000 new Covid cases since the news of President Trump’s positive test. / Vox The Midwest keeps reopening as states reel from new virus cases. Meanwhile, the White House is doing almost nothing to investigate its outbreak. / POLITICO, The New York Times The
Yesterday, Trump took a brief motorcade with two Secret Service members to wave to supporters outside Walter Reed hospital. / BuzzFeed News A Walter Reed attending physician: "Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They
