Category Archives: Daily Digest

• A New Covid-19 Crisis: Domestic Abuse Rises Worldwide
• 9 large metro police departments reported ‘double-digit percentage jumps’ in domestic violence 911 calls as more people shelter at home
• Connecticut: Hartford police form new team to focus on domestic violence calls during coronavirus crisis
• For victims of domestic abuse, coronavirus stay-at-home order may make life riskier, not safer
• UN calls for response to increasing domestic violence amid Covid-19 lockdown
• Child abuse fears increase as families isolate during coronavirus pandemic
• Parents have a right to be stressed. But don’t take it out on your kids
• Calls to US helpline jump 891%, as White House is warned of mental health crisis
• How Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient?
• The Quest for a Pandemic Pill
• Covid 19 antibodies breakthrough made in San Francisco
• 35 million Americans could lose health insurance amid mass layoffs
• How tech connects older people with mental health services as COVID-19 isolates
• Half Of Americans Suffering Mental Health Issues During Coronavirus, New Poll Shows
• The Naval War College Ran a Pandemic War Game in 2019. The Conclusions Were Eerie
• Korea: Physicians work out treatment guidelines for coronavirus
• Surrendered Without A Shot, by Robert Gore
• Chinese Regime Hoards Global Inventory of Medical Provides, Leading to Growing Shortage Outside China
• Idaho: Officials’ comments threaten others’ health
• Colleges suffering huge financial blows from pandemic
• The World’s Biggest Oil Deal Can’t Save Crude Prices

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• U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic
• SARS-CoV-2 viral load and the severity of COVID-19
• How the coronavirus job cuts played out by sector and demographics
• State unemployment systems tested by surge of applicants
• ‘A perfect storm’: US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars
• To help stop coronavirus, everyone should be wearing face masks. The science is clear
• Pandemic hurts ability of nations to face natural disasters
• EMCrit Wee – Webinar I Gave to Pulm/Crit Care Fellows on Avoiding Intubation and Initial Ventilation of COVID19 Patients
• COVID-19 raises concern over range of pregnancy complications
• Explainer: How an old tuberculosis vaccine might help fight the new coronavirus
• Nations with Mandatory TB Vaccines Show Fewer Coronavirus Deaths
• A Plan to End this Madness
• Where will the bodies go? Morgues plan as virus grows
• The Burning Platform: Unprecedented Power Grab
• Never Has So Little Done So Much Harm to So Many
• The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure
• REBELLION: ‘This Is Not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia Where You Are Asked For Your Papers!’ Says Maine Sheriff
• China Plans To Win The Pandemic World War
• Doug Casey: Speculate on Silver, Not Gold
• Bill McKibben: Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline
• Forest fire near Chernobyl boosts radiation level

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  Economy A Green Stimulus To Rebuild Our Economy (Adam M.) Thus, we propose an ambitious Green Stimulus of at least $2 trillion that creates millions of family-sustaining green jobs, lifts standards of living, accelerates a just transition off fossil fuels, ensures a controlling stake for the public in all private sector bailout plans, and…

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• Dr. Stephen Smith on effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine: ‘I think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic’
• Public Libraries’ Novel Response to a Novel Virus
• How a San Francisco restaurant reinvented itself to survive in the age of COVID-19
• How to keep farmers’ market shopping safe, from the stall to your kitchen sink
• Some Good News with John Krasinski
• Meet the army of big rig truck drivers keeping America’s stores stocked
• Meet the Detroit grandmother who’s saving lives by making face shields
• Coronavirus: Love knows no borders for elderly couple
• Restaurants are feeding healthcare workers now
• Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists
• Florida buys Everglades land to prevent oil drilling
• Arizona’s biggest utility says it will get all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050
• Standing Rock tribe celebrates ‘significant win’ over Trump in pipeline court ruling
• Wild Goats Roam Through an Empty Welsh Town

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• Trump claims Iran or its proxies planning a ‘sneak attack,’ warns of a ‘heavy price’
• U.S. announces military counternarcotics operation near Venezuela
• Silver Shock Update: A New and Major Threat to Supply
• Singing stops in Italy as fear and social unrest mount
• California appears to be flattening the curve. But its testing lags behind other states
• Wolf extends stay-at-home orders across Pa.; Worker at Limerick nuclear power plant tests positive
• Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19
• Face masks could be part of the answer
• Everyone Thinks They’re Right About Masks
• Japan to give two masks each to 50 million households to fight virus
• Coronavirus spread at Rikers is a ‘public health disaster’, says jail’s top doctor
• California to release 3,500 inmates early as coronavirus spreads inside prisons
• Nursing home infections, deaths surge amid lockdown measures
• Protective gear in national stockpile is nearly depleted, DHS officials say
• More evidence indicates healthy people can spread virus
• European experts ready smartphone technology to help halt coronavirus spread
• Coronavirus: The Italian COVID-19 hospital where no medics have been infected
• Allow the return of Victory Gardens
• Human Coronaviruses: Insights into Environmental Resistance and Its Influence on the Development of New Antiseptic Strategies
• Recent Loss of Vitamin C Biosynthesis Ability in Bats
• Chinese county goes into coronavirus lockdown as country tries to get back to work amid fear of second wave
• Booze sales are booming as people stockpile alcohol … but it may not last
• A Conversation with Ed Steinfeld and Mark Blyth
• Video: Japan vice PM hits out at WHO for excluding Taiwan
• Copper And The Coronavirus – Making An Anti-Viral Facemask
• ‘The other bomb’— Cramer’s warning as first shale company files for Chapter 11
• Citing virus, EPA has stopped enforcing environmental laws

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• From bartering to begging for relief, struggling Americans confront April rent
• For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power
• The poorest will suffer. Safety-net health clinics cut services amid coronavirus epidemic
• The Federalist: The Art of the Denial
• CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators: Crisis/Alternate Strategies
• America Has a Shortage of PPE Because Trump Sent Our Stockpile to China
• NYC Lung Doctor Tells His Family How to Protect Themselves from COVID-19
• Mask mystery: Why are U.S. officials dismissive of protective covering?
• The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal
• AI tool predicts which coronavirus patients get deadly ‘wet lung’
• Germany: Here you will find the latest news from the district administration
• California: New public health recommendation to cover the face
• You Shouldn’t Be Wearing Gloves to Go Grocery Shopping
• Exclusive: Kushner Firm Built the Coronavirus Website Trump Promised
• Global consumers reel from China’s coronavirus containment as stop-work orders disrupt supplies of iPhones, Hyundai cars and toilet paper
• The U.S. needs to know what went wrong
• French drug watchdog warns of dangerous side effects of coronavirus treatments
• The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
• Most Important Coronavirus Video you will ever see – The Taiwan Success Strategy
• ‘The floor was moving’: 6.5 earthquake strikes in Idaho, largest in the state since 1983
• Silver And Sanity
• Fascists Impersonate Climate Group to Say Coronavirus is Good for Earth

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• Anatomy Of The $2 Trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
• National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening
• The US 2020 Fiscal Deficit Will Explode To 18%, Unseen Since World War II
• Would everyone wearing face masks help us slow the pandemic?
• CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public
• Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US
• Is 6 feet enough for social distancing? An MIT researcher says droplets carrying coronavirus can travel up to 27 feet.
• What Americans Don’t Understand About Masks
• You Asked: Does Washing My Clothes Kill All the Germs?
• How sick will the coronavirus make you? The answer may be in your genes
• Hospital treatment of COVID-19 with high-dose Vitamin C
• China Shuts Down All Cinemas, Again
• ‘Vaccines won’t work’: US virologist breaks down COVID-19, how to curb spread
• Goodbye, Green New Deal
• Funerals are the latest part of American life to move online
• Indian police fire tear gas at jobless workers defying coronavirus lockdown
• Macy’s, Kohl’s, Gap turn to mass furloughs as virus crisis deepens
• “A Multitrillion Dollar Helicopter Credit Drop”: How The Fed Turned $454 Billion Into $4.5 Trillion
• Mike Krieger: “Question Everything!”
• Unpacking China’s Viral Propaganda War
• China Is “Fixed”: Chinese PMIs Soar Back Into Expansion, Smashing Expectations
• Goldman: The Oil Industry Will Never Be The Same After Coronavirus
• Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions Triple Overnight Following FDA Approval

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• How To Tell If We’re Beating COVID-19
• Coronavirus cases in California ICUs double overnight as manufacturers race to fill shortages
• ‘It’s no different from New York’: Urban centers nationwide gird for catastrophic virus outbreak
• Spread of coronavirus accelerates in U.S. jails and prisons
• Prisoner serving time for drug charge is first U.S. inmate to die from COVID-19
• Fact check: Could your December cough actually have been coronavirus? Experts say more research is needed
• FDA authorizes 15-minute coronavirus test
• The nasty curve shows: The death rate is rising faster in Sweden than in Italy
• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s official number of coronavirus cases doesn’t count these people
• Mortgage Firms Brace for Wave of Missed Payments
• Debt Collection Industry Deems Itself Essential To “Financial Health” Of Consumers, Fights COVID-19 Shutdown
• Pneumagen Ltd Leverages its Novel Glycan Approach to Target Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infections
• Estimates Show Wuhan Death Toll Far Higher Than Official Figure
• Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Negative … Then Positive
• Officials warn Africa is at ‘break the glass’ moment
• Strange days indeed: On Friday morning, South Africa will wake up to a different reality
• Rhode Island door knocks in search of fleeing New Yorkers
• Baby who tested positive for COVID-19 dies
• U.S. mayors say they’re running out of supplies to fight coronavirus
• Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse
• How Decades of Offshoring Led to a Mask Shortage in a Pandemic
• Information and FAQs on Performance, Protection, and Sterilization of Masks Against COVID-19
• New Zealand: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirement for essential non-health workers – COVID-19
• The Flying Dutchman

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• Governors Tell Outsiders From ‘Hot Zone’ to Stay Away as Virus Divides States
• Coronavirus: Why we do what we’re told when our society is shut down
• Virtual rendering of coronavirus patient’s lungs shows extensive damage the virus can cause
• On coronavirus, the Trudeau government is anti-science
• U.S. home healthcare industry warns of possible ‘collapse’
• How Soon Is Now?
• Easter is coming, but will there be eggs?
• Coronavirus Bill Lets Struggling Americans Tap Retirement Money
• A Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus
• More Than 500 NYPD Members Test Positive For COVID-19; 4,000 Call Out Sick
• Video: Simulating An Epidemic
• Coronavirus mutates into 40 strains. How this changes the pandemic outlook: Experts
• China reports deeply disturbing coronavirus development
• Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns
• New study says ‘high temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce’ spread of COVID-19
• Virus makes water shortages everyone’s problem

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• Why Germany’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Far Lower Than In Other Countries
• Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Downgrades Projection
• More coronavirus DIY: UF upcycles for masks
• Spanish singer livens up coronavirus lockdown with a balcony concert
• Chicagoans under stay-at-home orders spread hope with a city-wide sing-along of Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’
• Pop superstar Rihanna donates $5 million to relief efforts
• Ireland: Private hospitals will be made public for duration of coronavirus pandemic
• The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say
• Isinnova shares 3D printed adapter to turn snorkeling mask into a non-invasive ventilator
• Viral ‘BBC Dad’ Returns To Discuss Working From Home: ‘Just Really, Really Tough’
• School administrator goes to drive-thru where student is working to tell her she’s valedictorian
• Newfound Comet ATLAS is getting really bright, really fast

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