How can we keep this autumn Covid surge from becoming a winter catastrophe? "Empiricism and imperfection." / CNN, The Atlantic In the UK, the resurgence is blamed on lax social distancing and the prime minister’s public health directives. / Vox The Czech Republic has Europe’s highest rate of
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 an unexplained illness in a participant. / STAT Sean Penn has created the United States’ largest
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. The WHO sets a new daily record. / BBC News, The New York Times, The Associated Press Wearing masks doesn’t harm your health, but the idea has lived
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 An overview of how other pandemics came to an end. / BBC News Some 171 countries are teaming up for a
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 President Trump says he won’t negotiate a new fiscal stimulus package, then reverses.
The US has reported more than 97,000 new cases of COVID-19 since the news of President Trump’s positive test. / Vox Meanwhile, the White House is doing almost nothing to investigate its outbreak. / The New York Times The White House blocks new FDA guidelines on bringing potential vaccines
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
Please note: We chose to delay yesterday's newsletter until today, now that it appears the news regarding Trump's condition has slowed a bit. Trump’s medical team says the president has had two concerning drops in oxygen levels, but may be discharged from Walter Reed as
