WIRED
Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects
2 min read · 2020-12-17 · Disinformation could thwart distribution before government messages have a chance to push back. Debunking might turn out to be everyone’s job.
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NPR
Coronavirus World Map: Tracking The Spread Of The Outbreak
From 2020 · A map of confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19 around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed thousands of people.
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The New York Times
You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?
8 min read · 2020-12-29 · Knowing the amount of virus carried in the body could help doctors predict the course of a patient’s illness.
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The Atlantic
The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
10 min read · 2020-12-31 · There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
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(1) Vitamin D and COVID 19: The Evidence for Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus (SARS CoV 2)
2020-12-30
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(1) Coronavirus Pandemic Update 97: Vitamin D & COVID-19 Immunity, The Endothelium, & Deficiencies
2020-12-30 · The role of vitamin D in preventing viral infections, including COVID-19, is gaining attention as more studies are released. In this video, Dr. Seheult of h...
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(1) Excess Deaths During the Coronavirus Pandemic
2020-12-30 · Excess mortality gives a more complete picture of the death toll of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) than official daily estimates. A research letter publ...
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(1) Mouth Washes That Inactivate Coronaviruses
2020-12-30 · Mouth Washes That Inactivate CoronavirusesStudy finds the SARS-COV-2 is inactivated by some of the oral rinsing productshttps://academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
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(1) Coronavirus Pandemic: Updates, Spread, Symptoms, & Treatment (COVID-19)
2020-12-30 · Coronavirus pandemic updates with pulmonologist & critical care specialist Roger Seheult, MD. Illustrations and concise lectures on the novel Coronavirus (CO...
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Healthline
Can Vitamin C Protect You from COVID-19?
5 min read · From 2020 · You may have seen claims on social media that vitamin C can help with COVID-19. This article reviews how vitamin C affects immunity, how it's being tried for COVID-19 treatment in a hospital setting,…
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Elemental
Covid-19 Is Looking More and More Like an Autoimmune Disease
7 min read · 2020-12-10 · Autoimmunity may explain how the virus inflicts such widespread and unpredictable damage
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PNASNews
Face masks considerably reduce COVID-19 cases in Germany
2020-12-03 · Mitigating the spread of COVID-19 is the objective of most governments. It is of utmost importance to understand how effective various public health measures are. We study the effectiveness of face masks. We employ public regional data about reported severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections for Germany. As face masks became mandatory at different points in time across German regions, we can compare the rise in infections in regions with masks and regions without masks. Weighing various estimates, we conclude that 20 d after becoming mandatory face masks have reduced the number of new infections by around 45%. As economic costs are close to zero compared to other public health measures, masks seem to be a cost-effective means to combat COVID-19.
We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits regional variation in the point in time when wearing of face masks became mandatory in public transport and shops. Depending on the region we consider, we find that face masks reduced the number of newly registered severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections between 15% and 75% over a period of 20 days after their mandatory introduction. Assessing the credibility of the various estimates, we conclude that face masks reduce the daily growth rate of reported infections by around 47%.
Public health data have been deposited in FigShare (<https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13065920>). All study data are included in the paper and [ SI Appendix ][1].
[1]: https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.2015954117/-/DCSupplemental
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Scott Galloway
The Great Dispersion | No Mercy / No Malice
5 min read · 2020-12-04 · 5-min read The pandemic’s most enduring feature will be as an accelerant of existing trends. The tre...
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The Atlantic
Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing
~11 min read · 2020-12-03 · The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility.
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Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer
6 min read · From 2020 · Although the benefit of population-level public facial masking to protect others during the COVID-19 pandemic has received a great deal of attention, we discuss for one of the first times the…
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Elemental
What Science Says About Vitamins and Supplements for Covid-19
~13 min read · 2020-12-01 · Do vitamin D, melatonin, zinc, and vitamin C protect against Covid-19?
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