The United States surpassed eight million known Covid cases last week, and reported more than 70,000 new infections on Friday, the most in a single day since July. / The New York Times Some senior living facilities are quietly using automated tracking systems to guide contact tracing. / The Verge “How
Health experts offer advice on how to plan for a safe Thanksgiving during the Covid period. / STAT In Switzerland, yodelers and the fans who love them created a superspreader event in late September. / The Daily Beast Five reasons why Covid-19 has been less deadly in Africa than elsewhere. / BBC
What happened when the United States’ emergency aid money ran out: eight million people entered poverty. / The New York Times Public health officers across the country rush to plan for the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine. / NPR How the CDC was felled by a virus, the president, and “the capitulation
A proposal to speed up herd immunity to the coronavirus gets White House attention “but appalls top scientists.” / The Washington Post Related: Which states have 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:
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,
