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Final update: Sunday 12/13/20

This page is the archived last update of the guide that covered activities from March to early December 2020. It provided an evolving framework for understanding the U.S. entry into and exit from the Coronavirus pandemic, a framework that highlights the disproportionate sickness, death, and financial burdens the pandemic imposes on minorities and/or the working classes of our society. 



Top stories in last several days ...
  • "First Coronavirus Vaccines Head to States, Starting Historic Effort", Abby Goodnough, Reed Abelson and Jan Hoffman, NY Times, 12/12/20
  • "Willingness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Ticks Up to 63% in U.S", Megan Brenan, Gallup, 12/8/20
  • "New HHS dataset tells us precisely where COVID-19 is hitting hospitals",  Dave Luo, Rebecca Glassman, Betsy Ladyzhets, & Catherine Pollack, COVID Tracking Project, 12/12/20
Framework
The ten sections of the framework are divided into two groups: dashboard and publications.
  • Dashboard (sections A, B, and C) contains links to data pages on the Web that include the tables, maps, and charts most frequently cited by the publications in the second part of the guide. Readers who encounter references to COVID-19 data in a publication can quickly confirm (or refute) the citations by clicking appropriate links in the dashboard to the sources of the data.
  • Publications (sections D through J) contains links to reports, news articles, and opinions.  
New links are added every day. Recent links are red; older links are blue. Most of the links in the dashboard sections are always red because they point to Web pages that are updated frequently by their editors, sometimes every day. Older items in the publication sections whose content has been overcome by events are deleted. This enables the overall size of the publications sections to remain more or less the same as newer links are added. However enough older articles remain so that readers can always get a quick sense of where we are and how we got here by skimming the titles of the articles in chronological order.

A. Info | B. MedMods | C. Trackers | D. World | E. U.S response | F. Context | G. Unequal | H. TreatVax | I. Opinions | J. TimeOut

... Dashboard ... 

A. Comprehensive information resources 
B. Medical impact models
  • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), COVID-19, 12/10/20
  • "Where The Latest COVID-19 Models Think We're Headed — And Why They Disagree", Ryan Best and Jay Boice, FiveThirtyEight, 12/13/20
C. Focused Trackers ... Infections, Hospitalizations, Deaths, & Vaccines

... Publications ...

D. Exit strategies from the pandemic outside the U.S.
  • Germany, "With Broad, Random Tests for Antibodies, Germany Seeks Path Out of Lockdown", Katrin Bennhold, NY Times, Sunday 4/19/20 ... A more expansive version of this story that also covers South Korea and New Zealand was published by the Washington Post on Monday 4/20/20
  • Georgia, Vietnam, Ghana, Costa Rica, Lebanon, New Zealand, "When it comes to coronavirus response, superpowers may need to study smaller nations", Adam Taylor and Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 5/16/20
  • New Zealand, "New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in 49 days", Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 5/16/20
  • Italy, "Italy Says 96% of Virus Fatalities Suffered From Other Illnesses", Tommaso Ebhardt and Marco Bertacche, Bloomberg, 5/26/20
  • Iceland, "How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus", Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 6/1/20
  • China, "Beijing’s Partial Lockdown a Sign of the World’s New Normal", Chris Buckley and Keith Bradsher, NY Times, 6/13/20
  • Chile, "Chile celebrated success against the coronavirus — and began to open up. Infections have soared.", John Bartlett, Washington Post, 6/23/20
  • Russia, "‘We feel absolutely abandoned’: How the pandemic in Russia tanked the economy and plunged families into crisis", Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 7/2/20
  • Thailand, "No One Knows What Thailand Is Doing Right, but so far, It's Working", Hannah Beech, NY Times, 7/16/20
  • Sweden, Finland, "Nordic Study Suggests Open Schools Don’t Spread Virus Much", Kati Pohjanpalo and Hanna Hoikkala, Bloomberg, 7/19/20
  • Australia, "'Just Got to Suck It Up:' Masks Mandatory in Australian City", NY Times, 7/23/20
  • Japan, "As Japan Nears 1,000 Daily Coronavirus Infections, It Shies From Restrictions", Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida, NY Times, 7/24/20
  • China, "China Reports Biggest Virus Spike Since End of Wuhan Outbreak", Bloomberg, 7/26/20
  • Hong Kong, "Hong Kong to Ban Dining-in, Gatherings Of More Than Two", Jinshan Hong, Bloomberg, 7/27/20
  • Vietnam, "Mysterious Coronavirus Outbreak Catches Vietnam by Surprise", Hannah Beech and Chau Doana, NY Times, 7/29/20
  • Germany, "Schools Can Reopen, Germany Finds, but Expect a ‘Roller Coaster’", Katrin Bennhold, NY Times, 8/26/20
  • Spain, "‘Here We Go Again’: A Second Virus Wave Grips Spain", Patrick Kingsley and José Bautista, NY Times, 8/31/20 
  • Italy, "Italy’s Bergamo is calling back coronavirus survivors. About half say they haven’t fully recovered.", Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 9/8/10
  • Israel, "Israel to Celebrate Jewish New Year Under a Second Lockdown", Isabel Kershner, NY Times, 9/13/20
  • Europe, "‘We May Be Surprised Again’: An Unpredictable Pandemic Takes a Terrible Toll", Simon Romero, Manny Fernandez and Marc Santora, NY Times, 9/20/20
  • United Kingdom, "A Somber Boris Johnson Offers Britain a New Plan to Halt the Virus", Mark Landler and Stephen Castle, NY Times, 9/22/20
  • South Korea, "How South Korea Successfully Managed Coronavirus",  Timothy W. Martin and Dasl Yoon, Wall Street Journal, 9/25/20
  • Sweden, "Vilified Early Over Lax Virus Strategy, Sweden Seems to Have Scourge Controlled", Thomas Erdbrink, NY Times, 9/29/20
  • Great Britain, "Britain’s New Measures to Control Virus Inflame North-South Tensions", Mark Landler and Stephen Castle, NY Times, 10/12/20 ... Note: Rather than impose another lockstep lockdown on the entire country, Britain is now assigning regions of the country to one of three tiers based on their virus activity.
  • Europe, "Europe, Which Thought It Had the Virus Tamed, Faces a Resurgence", Mark Landler, NY Times, 10/15/20
  • China, "China Economy Grows 4.9% as Rest of World Struggles With Coronavirus", Jonathan Cheng, Wall Street Journal, 10/18/20
  • Great Britain, "Britain to infect healthy volunteers with coronavirus in vaccine challenge trials", William Booth and Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 10/20/20
  • Asia, "Covid-19’s Global Divide: As West Reels, Asia Keeps Virus at Bay", Margherita Stancati and Dasl Yoon, Wall Street Journal, 10/20/20
  • Great Britain, "Britain’s Health Workers Face 2nd Virus Wave, but This Time With Less Support", Benjamin Mueller, NY Times, 10/27/20
  • France & Germany, "France and Germany Lock Down as Second Coronavirus Wave Grows", Matina Stevis-Gridneff, NY Times, 10/28/20
  • Netherlands, "As Coronavirus Surges, Chastened Dutch Wonder, ‘What Happened to Us?’", Thomas Erdbrink, NY Times, 10/29/20
U.S. response to Coronavirus
  • President Trump, "Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak", White House, 3/13/20
  • "Trump Urges Limits Amid Pandemic, but Stops Short of National Mandates",  Katie Rogers and Emily Cochrane, NY Times, 3/16/20
  • "C.D.C. says all Americans should wear masks. Trump says the rule is voluntary.", NY Times, 4/3/20
  • "Guidelines for Opening Up America Again" ... White House, Thursday 4/16/20
  • "Trump Says Coronavirus Cure Cannot ‘Be Worse Than the Problem Itself’", Maggie Haberman and David E. Sanger, NY Times, 4/23/20
  • CDC, "C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say", Sheila Kaplan, NY Times, Sunday 4/19/20 ... This story also covered by the Washington Post, Sunday 4/19/20
  • "34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America", Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Robert Costa and Lena H. Sun , Washington Post, 5/2/20
  • President Trump, "Trump’s New Coronavirus Message: Time to Move On to the Economic Recovery", Peter Baker, New York Times, 5/6/20
  • White House, "White House Rejects C.D.C.’s Coronavirus Reopening Plan", Abby Goodnough and Maggie Haberman, NY Times, 5/7/20
  • "Virus hunters rely on faxes, paper records as more states reopen", Darius Tahir, Pollitico, 5/10/20
  • "‘Lives Were Lost’ as Warnings Went Unheeded, Whistle-Blower Tells House", Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NY Times, 5/14/20
  • United States, "CDC guidelines, released at last, offer low-key guide to reopening", Laura Meckler and Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 5/19/20
  • "Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show", James Glanz and Campbell Robertson, NY Times, 5/20/20
  • "‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’", Alexis C. Madrigal and Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 5/21/2
  • "White House and CDC remove coronavirus warnings about choirs in faith guidance", Lena H. Sun and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 5/28/20
  • "The CDC Waited 'Its Entire Existence for this Moment.' What Went Wrong", Eric Lipton, Abby Goodnough, Michael D. Shear, Megan Twohey, Apoorva Mandavilli, Sheri Fink and Mark Walker, NY Times, 6/3/20
  • "Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data", Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NY Times, 7/14/20
  • "C.D.C. Calls on Schools to Reopen, Downplaying Health Risks", Abby Goodnough, NY Times, 7/24/20
  • "F.D.A. ‘Grossly Misrepresented’ Blood Plasma Data, Scientists Say", Katie Thomas and Sheri Fink, NY Times, 8/24/20
  • "Top U.S. Officials Told C.D.C. to Soften Coronavirus Testing Guidelines",  Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NY Times, 8/26/20
  • "The nation’s public health agencies are ailing when they’re needed most", Chelsea Janes and William Wan, Washington Post, 8/31/20
  • "Trump officials seek greater control over CDC reports on coronavirus", Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 9/12/20
  • "C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing",  Katherine J. Wu, NY Times, 9/17/20
  • "C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections", Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 9/17/20
  • "C.D.C. Reverses Testing Guidelines for People Without Covid-19 Symptoms", Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 9/18/20
  • "Advice on Airborne Virus Transmission Vanishes From C.D.C. Website", Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 9/21/20
  • "Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings", Mark Mazzetti, Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere, NY Times, 9/28/20
  • "White House Blocked C.D.C. Order to Keep Cruise Ships Docked", Sheila Kaplan, NY Times, 9/30/20
  • "Trump says he and first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus", Josh Dawsey and Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 10/2/20
  • "Trump Hospitalized With Coronavirus", Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, NY Times,10/2/10
  • "Trump’s Return Leaves White House in Disarray as Infections Jolt West Wing", Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni, NY Times, 10/6/20
  • "White House clears Food and Drug Administration coronavirus vaccine standards it tried to derail", Laurie McGinley, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 10/7/20
  • "Guests at Trump’s events scattered across the country. Potentially exposed, many of their contacts may never be identified.", Isaac Stanley-Becker, Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 10/8/20
  • "White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation", Sheila Kaplan, NY Times, 19/9/20
  • "Offering few details, the White House doctor says Trump is no longer contagious.", Maggie Haberman, Katherine J. Wu and Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 10/10/20
  • "CDC expands definition of who is a ‘close contact’ of an individual with covid-19", Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 10/21/20
  • "Coronavirus updates: CDC says people who test positive for the virus can still vote in person", Antonia Noori Farzan, Karla Adam, Lateshia Beachum and Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 11/3/20
  • "C.D.C. Pleads With Americans to Stay Home on Thanksgiving, Roni Caryn Rabin, NY Times, 11/19/20
  • "Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee December 10, 2020 Meeting Announcement", FDA, 12/9/20
F. U.S. context
  • "U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to covid-19",  Emma Brown, Andrew Ba Tran, Beth Reinhard and Monica Ulmanu, Washington Post, 4/27/20
  • "Most States That Are Reopening Fail to Meet White House Guidelines", Keith Collins and Lauren Leatherby, NY Times, 5/7/20 
  • "Trust in Medical Scientists Has Grown in U.S., but Mainly Among Democrats", Cary Funk, Brian Kennedy and Courtney Johnson, Pew Research Center (Fact Tank), 5/21/20
  • "A deadly ‘checkerboard’: Covid-19’s new surge across rural America", Reis Thebault and Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 5/24/20
  • "The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live", Jennifer Medina and Robert Gebeloff, Washington Post, 5/25/20
  • "The U.S. death toll has reached 100,000", Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 5/27/20
SECOND WAVE ... After restarts, Memorial Day, protests, and rallies
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  • "As Virus Surges, Younger People Account for ‘Disturbing’ Number of Cases", Julie Bosman and Sarah Mervosh, NY Times, 6/25/20
  • "Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West", Manny Fernandez and Sarah Mervosh, NY Times, 6/25/20
  • "43% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes", NY Times, 6/27/20
  • "Young Americans Are Partying Hard and Spreading Covid-19 Quickly", Rachel Adams-Heard, Washington Post, 7/1/20
  • "Most Big School Districts Aren’t Ready to Reopen. Here’s Why.", Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro, NY Times, 7/14/20
  • "Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds", Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 7/18/20
  • "‘It’s Emotional Whiplash’: California Is Once Again at the Center of the Virus Crisis", Tim Arango and Sarah Mervosh, NY Times, 7/23/20
  • "Coronavirus ravaged Florida, as Ron DeSantis sidelined scientists and followed Trump", Cleve R. Wootson Jr.Isaac Stanley-Becker, Lori Rozsa and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 7/25/20
  • "Covid-19 Cases Soar in Young Adults Bored of Social Distancing", Bloomberg, 7/26/20
  • "At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks", Griff Witte, Ariana Eunjung Cha and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 7/28/20
  • "After Plummeting, the Virus Soars Back in the Midwest", Julie Bosman, Manny Fernandez and Thomas Fuller, NY Times, 8/1/20
  • "Chaos coast to coast as a school year like no other launches",  Laura Meckler, Valerie Strauss and Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 8/9/20
  • "Outbreaks Drive U.N.C. Chapel Hill Online After a Week of Classes", Richard Fausset, NY Times, 8/18/20
  • "WHO warns young people are emerging as main spreaders of the coronavirus", William Wan and Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 8/18/20
  • "Covid in the Classroom? Some Schools Are Keeping It Quiet", Dan Levin, NY Times, 8/22/20
  • "Coronavirus update: Infections are trending upward in the Midwest", Derek Hawkins and Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 8/22/20
  • "57 percent of Republicans think that the number of U.S. deaths from coronavirus has been acceptable",  Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer de Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and Elena Cox, CBS News, 8/23/20
  • "A New Front in America’s Pandemic: College Towns", Sarah Watson, Shawn Hubler, Danielle Ivory and Robert Gebeloff, NY Times, 9/6/20, 
  • "Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat-out disregard for human life’ during pandemic", Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 9/17/20
  • "With Flags, Crosses and Photos, Mourning 200,000 Dead", Julie Bosman, Serge F. Kovaleski and Jacey Fortin, NY Times, 9/20/20
  • "What We Know About Coronavirus Cases in K-12 Schools So Far", Yuriria Avila, Weiyi Cai, Barbara Harvey, Juliette Love, Eleanor Lutz, Alex Leeds Matthews and Kate Taylor, NY Times, 9/21/20

    THIRD WAVE     ... Colder weather and COVID fatigue

    • "New York State Tops 1,000 New Daily Coronavirus Cases for First Time Since Early June", Corinne Ramey and Natasha Khan, Wall Street Journal, 9/26/20
    • "The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history", Heather Long, Andrew Van Dam, Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 9/30/20
    • "The Northeast Held the Virus in Check. Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.",  Sarah Mervosh and Julie Bosman, NY Times, 10/9/20
    • "Coronavirus cases are rising in U.S., sparking worries the next big wave has begun", William Wan and Jacqueline Dupree, Washington Post, 10/13/20
    • "As the Coronavirus Surges, a New Culprit Emerges: Pandemic Fatigue", Julie Bosman, Sarah Mervosh and Marc Santora, NY Times, 10/17/20
    • "‘It Has Hit Us With a Vengeance’: Virus Surges Again Across the United States", Sarah Mervosh and Lucy Tompkins, NY Times, 10/21/20
    • "U.S. Sets Coronavirus Case Record Amid New Surge", Campbell Robertson, Edgar Sandoval, Lucy Tompkins and Simon Romero, NY Times, 10/24/20
    • "Hospitals Are Reeling Under a 46 Percent Spike in Covid-19 Patients", Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Simon Romero and Mike Baker, NY Times, 10/27/20
    • "How Are Americans Catching the Virus? Increasingly, ‘They Have No Idea’", Sarah Mervosh and Lucy Tompkins, NY Times, 10/31/29
    • "In Hunt for Virus Source, W.H.O. let China Take Charge", Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo, Amy Qin and Javier C. Hernández, NY Times, 11/3/20
    • "In Midwest Battlegrounds, the Virus Met Another Concern: The Economy", Julie Bosman, Sarah Mervosh and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, NY Times, 11/4/20
    • "One Day in America: More Than 121,000 Coronavirus Cases", Julie Bosman, Audra D. S. Burch and Sarah Mervosh, NY Times, 11/5/20
    • "Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Top 61,000, a Record", NY Times, 11/12/20
    • "Missing From State Plans to Distribute the Coronavirus Vaccine: Money to Do It", Abby Goodnough and Sheila Kaplan, NY Times, 11/14/20
    • "It’s Traumatizing’: Coronavirus Deaths in the U.S. Are Climbing Again", Sarah Mervosh, J. David Goodman and Julie Bosman, NY Times, 11/14/20
    • "Adopting mask mandates, some GOP governors give up the gospel of personal responsibility", Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 11/17/20
    • "Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge to Cuomo’s Virus Shutdown Order", Adam Liptak, NY Times, 11/26/20
    • "Virus Deaths Approach Spring Record Amid Changing U.S. Crisis", Campbell Robertson, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Joseph Goldstein and Mitch Smith, NY Times, 12/28/20
    • "Thanksgiving Draws Travel to a Pandemic Peak", Doug Cameron and Alison Sider, Wall Street Journal, 11/29/20
    • "Surging Virus Exposes California’s Weak Spot: A Lack of Hospital Beds and Staff", Thomas Fuller and Manny Fernandez, NY Times, 12/3/20
    • "‘There’s No Place for Them to Go’: I.C.U. Beds Near Capacity Across U.S.", Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew Conlen, NY Times, 12/9/20
    G. Unequal impact on life, health, income, education, careers 
    • "7 Out Of 10 Patients Killed By COVID-19 In Louisiana Were African American", Lulu Garcia-Navarro NPR, 4/12/20
    • "Job or Health? Restarting the Economy Threatens to Worsen Economic Inequality", Jim Tankersley, NY Times, 4/27/20
    • "More than 80 percent of hospitalized covid-19 patients in Georgia were African American, study finds", Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 4/29/20
    • "Hispanics are almost twice as likely as whites to have lost their jobs amid pandemic, poll finds", Tracy Jan and Scott Clement, Washington Post, 5/6/20
    • "In an immigrant community battling coronavirus, ‘essential’ means ‘vulnerable.’", Jose A. Del Real, NY Times, 5/10/20
    • United States, "Questions of Bias in Covid-19 Treatment Add to the Mourning for Black Families", John Eligon and Audra D. S. Burch, NY Times, 5/11/20
    • Navajo Nation, "Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow", Robert Klemko, NY Times, 5/11/20
    • "Tribal Nations Face Most Severe Crisis in Decades as the Coronavirus Closes Casinos", Simon Romero and Jack Healy, NY Times, 5/11/20
    • "The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes", NY Times, 5/21/20
    • "Crowded protests spark concerns about fresh outbreaks of the deadly coronavirus", Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 5/31/20
    • "Black Workers, Already Lagging, Face Big Economic Risks", Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley, NY Times, 6/1/20
    • "Patients with underlying conditions were 12 times as likely to die of covid-19 as otherwise healthy people, CDC finds", Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 6/15/20
    • "68% Have Antibodies in This Clinic. Can Neighborhood Beat a Next Wave?", Joseph Goldstein, NY Times, 6/9/20
    • "The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus", Richard A. Oppel Jr., Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Will Wright and Mitch Smith, NY Times, 7/5/20
    • "Study of 17 Million Identifies Crucial Risk Factors for Coronavirus Deaths", Katherine J. Wu, NY Times, 7/8/20
    • "‘Are They Setting My Children Up for Failure?’ Remote Learning Widens Education Gap.", Tawnell D. Hobbs, Wall Street Journal, 7/15/29
    • "In the Same Towns, Private Schools Are Reopening While Public Schools Are Not", Claire Cain Miller, NY Times, 7/16/20
    • "Pandemic’s weight falls on Hispanics and Native Americans, as deaths pass 150,000", Reis Thebault and Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 7/31/20
    • "Hispanic, Black children at higher risk of coronavirus-related hospitalization, CDC finds", Chelsea Janes, Washington Post, 8/7/20
    • "‘A national crisis’: As coronavirus forces many schools online this fall, millions of disconnected students are being left behind", Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 8/16/20
    • "Coronavirus Vaccine Hesitancy in Black and Latinx Communities", William Wan, Washington Post, 11/23/20
    • "We made this tool to make it easier to understand and share how COVID-19 has affected Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color in every US state and territory, and we’d love to hear how you end up using it.", COVID Tracking Project, 10/16/20


    • "Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health", The Economist, 11/21/20
    • "Amid history of mistreatment, doctors struggle to sell Black Americans on coronavirus vaccine", Lola Fadulu, Washington Post, 12/8/20

    H. Treatments, vaccines, testing, tracing
    • "Common Drug Reduces Coronavirus Deaths, Scientists Report", Benjamin Mueller and Roni Caryn Rabin, NY Times, 6/17/20
    • "Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife With Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix Them.", Natasha Singer, NY Times, 7/8/20
    • "Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine", David Gelles and Jesse Drucker, NY Times, 7/25/20
    • "Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States. Here’s Why", Jennifer Steinhauer and Abby Goodnough, NY Times, 7/31/20"The [COVID-19 test] 
    • "Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back", Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal, Atlantic, 8/14/20 ... Editor's note: This long piece provides a detailed description of how saliva testing could be a highly scalable approach to testing with rapid turnaround of results
    • "First Documented Coronavirus Reinfection Reported in Hong Kong", Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 8/24/20
    • "National Academies Release Draft Framework for Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine, Seek Public Comment", National Academies, 9/1/20
    • "Nearly 80% of Americans think that the speedy approval process of a coronavirus vaccine is driven by politics - NOT by proof that shots work", Daily Mail, 9/13/20
    • "U.S. Public Now Divided Over Whether To Get COVID-19 Vaccine", Alec Tyson, Courtney Johnson And Cary Funk, Pew Research, 9/17/20
    • "Moderna and Pfizer Reveal Secret Blueprints for Coronavirus Vaccine Trials", Denise Grady and Katie Thomas, NY Times, 9/17/20
    • "China and Russia are ahead in the global coronavirus vaccine race, bending long-standing rules as they go", Eva Dou and Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 9/18/20
    • "New York Will Review Virus Vaccines, Citing Politicization of Process", Michael Gold and Jesse McKinley, NY Times, 9/24/20
    • "China Gives Unproven Covid-19 Vaccines to Thousands, With Risks Unknown", Sui-Lee Wee, NY Times, 9/26/20
    • "Black doctors want to vet vaccine process, worried about mistrust from years of medical racism", Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 9/26/20
    • "Covid-19 Reinfection Documented in Nevada Adds to Questions on Virus Immunity", Anna Wilde Mathews, Wall Street Journal, 10/12/20
    • "Survival of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus on the human skin: Importance of hand hygiene in COVID-19", Ryohei Hirose, Hiroshi Ikegaya, et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases, 10/3/20 ... ... Note: Japanese researchers found that coronavirus survives up to 9 hours on human skin
    • "Covid-19 Antibodies Study Shows Decline Over Time", Wall Street Journal, 10/27/20 ... Note: The report (not reviewed by peers for a journal) from Imperial College found HERE 
    • "Pfizer’s Early Data Shows Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective", Katie Thomas, David Gelles and Carl Zimmer, NYTimes, 11/9/20
    • "President-elect Biden announces coronavirus task force made up of physicians and health experts", Yasmeen Abutaleb and Laurie McGinley, Washington Post, 11/9/20
    • "Early Data Show Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective", Denise Grady, NY Times, 11/17/20
    • "The Vaccines Will Probably Work. Making Them Fast Will Be the Hard Part.", Katie Thomas, NY Times, 11/17/20
    • "How the Out-of-Control Pandemic Is Speeding the Testing of Vaccines", Rebecca Robbins, NY Times, 11/18/20
    • "New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective", Katie Thomas, NY Times, 11/20/20
    • "Pfizer Applies for Emergency F.D.A. Approval for Covid-19 Vaccine", Noah Weiland and Katie Thomas, NY Times, 11/22/20
    • "Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop", James Glanz, Benedict Carey and Hannah Beech, NY Times, 11/24/20
    • "Coronavirus vaccines face trust gap in Black and Latino communities, study finds",  William Wan, Washington Post, 11/23/20
    • "Moderna Applies for Emergency F.D.A. Approval for Its Coronavirus Vaccine",  Denise Grady, NY Times, 12/2/10
    • "Long-Term-Care Residents and Health Workers Should Get Vaccine First, C.D.C. Panel Says", Abby Goodnough, NY Times, 12/3/20
    • "U.K. Approves Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine, a First in the West", Benjamin Mueller, NY Times, 12/4/20
    • "Pfizer tells U.S. officials it cannot supply substantial additional vaccine until late June or July", Laurie McGinley, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 12/8/20
    • "Willingness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Ticks Up to 63% in U.S", Megan Brenan, Gallup, 12/8/20
    • "Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee December 10, 2020 Meeting Announcement", FDA, 12/9/20
    • "FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, first approved in the U.S.",  
      Carolyn Y. Johnson, Laurie McGinley, Paulina Firozi, Kim Bellware, Erin Cunningham, Hamza Shaban, Miriam Berger and Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 12/10/20
    • "First Coronavirus Vaccines Head to States, Starting Historic Effort", Abby Goodnough, Reed Abelson and Jan Hoffman, NY Times, 12/12/20
    • "New HHS dataset tells us precisely where COVID-19 is hitting hospitals",  Dave Luo, Rebecca Glassman, Betsy Ladyzhets, & Catherine Pollack, COVID Tracking Project, 12/12/20
    • "Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9 million tests, 223k cases, and 2,477 deaths. 108,487 people are hospitalized with COVID-19..", COVID Tracking Project, 12/12/20



    I. Notable opinions and long reads 
    • "This Pandemic is a warm-up drill", John Graham,  Life on the Edge, 4/9/20
    • "The billionaire who cried pandemic", Jay Greene, Washington Post, 5/3/20
    • "Why Are There Almost No Memorials to the Flu of 1918?", David Segal, NY Times, 5/16/20
    • "The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain", Michele L. Norris, Washington Post, 5/21/20
    • "A Striking Disconnect on the Virus: Economic Pain With Little Illness", Michael H. Keller, Steve Eder and Karl Russell, NY Times, 6/6/20
    • "How the world missed COVID-19's silent spread", Matt Apuzzo, Selam Gebrekidan and David D. Kirkpatrick, NY Times, 6/27/20
    • "Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus", Michael D. Shear, Noah Weiland, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and David E. Sanger, NY Times, 7/18/20
    • "A Vaccine Reality Check", Sarah Zhang, Atlantic, 7/24/20
    • "The Mask Slackers of 1918", Christine Hauser, NY Times, 8/3/20
    • "Colleges Lost the Moral Authority to Blame Students", Holden Thorp, Chronicle of Higher Ed, 8/24/20
    • "‘The 1918 flu is still with us’: The deadliest pandemic ever is still causing problems today", Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post, 9/1/20
    • "No matter what the CDC says, here’s why many scientists think the coronavirus is airborne", Ben Guarino, Chris Mooney and Tim Elfrink, Washington Post, 9/21/20
    • "This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic", Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 9/30/20
    • Sweden, "‘It’s been so, so surreal.’ Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash", Gretchen Vogel, Science, 10/6/20
    • Sweden, "Vilified Early Over Lax Virus Strategy, Sweden Seems to Have Scourge Controlled", Thomas Erdbrink, NY Times, 10/8/20
    • "‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors a", Pam Belluck, NY Times, 10/12/20
    • "Scientists have a powerful newtool for controlling the coronavirus: Its own genetic code.", Washington Post, 10/13/20
    • "Why Can’t We See All of the Government’s Virus Data?", Christopher J.L. Murray, NY Times, 10/23/20
    • "When Will Covid Be Defeated? You’ll Need Patience: Coronavirus Q&A", James Paton, Bloomberg, 11/12/20
    • "Seven governors: Americans need to stay home this Thanksgiving", Gretchen Whitmer, Mike DeWine, Tony Evers, Tim Walz, J.B. Pritzker, Eric Holcomb and Andy Beshear, Washington Post, 11/18/20
    • "1 America, 1 Pandemic, 2 Realities", Manny Fernandez and Jack Healy, NY Times, 11/21/20
    • "Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine", Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas, Noah Weiland, David Gelles, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Denise Grady, NY Times, 11/22/20
    • "Holidays in a Pandemic? Here’s What Happened in 1918". Jacey Fortin. NY Times, 12/9/20
    J. Time out ... :-)
    • "Trump and Friends Got Coronavirus Care Many Others Couldn’t". Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NY Times, 12/9/20
    • "As Virus Spread, Reports of Trump Administration’s Private Briefings Fueled Sell-Off", Kate Kelly and Mark Mazzetti, NY Times, 10/15/20
    • "Offering few details, the White House doctor says Trump is no longer contagious.", Maggie Haberman, Katherine J. Wu and Apoorva Mandavilli, NY Times, 10/10/20
    • "THE PRESIDENT’S TAXES -- HOW REALITY-TV FAME HANDED TRUMP A $427 MILLION LIFELINE", Mike McIntire, Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, NY Times, 9/28/20
    • "LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE", Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire, NY Times, 9/27/20
    • "Ten days: After an early coronavirus warning, Trump is distracted as he downplays threat", Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post, 9/16/20
    • "Inside Donald Trump's 18 recorded interviews with Bob Woodward for his book 'Rage'", CBS News 60 Minutes, 9/13/20
    • "Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans", Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 9/9/20
    • "Few masks, little distancing: Trump celebrates at crowded White House party largely devoid of coronavirus precautions", David Nakamura and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 8/27/20
    • "‘This Market Is Nuts’: S&P 500 Hits Record, Defying Economic Devastation", Matt Phillips, NY Times, 8/18/20
    • Dan Zak , "The pandemic isn’t over. But America sure seems over it.", Washington Post, 5/29/20
    • KAL's cartoon, Economist, 5/8/20 
    • John Mulaney, "Horse in a Hospital", YouTube

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