The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model ~tech Article 319 words 10 votes
New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in forty-nine days ~health Article 1463 words 26 votes
A coalition of 62 countries has backed a joint Australian and European Union push for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak ahead of a crucial World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva ~health Article 663 words 9 votes
Q Team is content that COVIDSafe is an innocuous application that should be considered safe to download for most people ~health Article 2848 words 5 votes
Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts ~enviro climate change energy Article 1308 words 24 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 votes
Llama antibodies could help fight coronavirus, study finds ~health medicine Article 646 words 5 votes
The coronavirus in capitalist Russia: The Russian government has not only failed to effectively battle the emergency but has attempted to actively ignore it and the plight of its citizens ~health Article 1176 words 5 votes
“Immune to evidence”: How dangerous coronavirus conspiracies spread ~health Article 1305 words 7 votes
The coronavirus is making us all camgirls: For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera ~life work.remote Link 7 votes
An entire city (Noida, India) has been told to download a controversial contact tracing app — Or face jail: "Not installing the app will be considered a violation of lockdown orders," police say ~health Article 9 votes
Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled ~tech social media amazon facebook google Article 8 votes
A spectacularly bad Washington Post story on Apple and Google’s exposure notification project ~health Link 3 votes
Apple Store's temperature checks may violate EU privacy rules, says German data protection office ~tech apple privacy Article 217 words 5 votes
The right to work from home should be a demand far beyond the pandemic ~life work.remote Link 8 votes
Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them ~finance economics.macro Article 6 votes
The Finnish ski resort of Levi, with its season cut short because of coronavirus, is saving its snow for next season ~hobbies Article 4 votes
Two Rohingya refugees have tested positive for coronavirus in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh ~health Article 371 words 8 votes
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has criticized the Financial Times and The New York Times after they reported that Russia’s coronavirus death toll could be much higher than government officials are saying ~health Article 649 words 9 votes
Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid contact-tracing app—and it hasn’t helped much ~health Article 429 words 10 votes
As coronavirus overruns Russia, doctors are dying on the front lines ~health healthcare Article 566 words 6 votes
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic ~tech Article 339 words, published May 8 2020 23 votes
It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers ~health healthcare Article 965 words, published May 10 2020 14 votes
Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates: Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications ~health medicine Article 754 words 12 votes
Review of new Apple and Google contact tracing protocol ~health Article 2114 words, published May 7 2020 5 votes
US tribal nations face most severe crisis in decades as the coronavirus closes casinos ~finance business Article 517 words 3 votes
COVID-19 is fueling a boom in the doomsday bunker market, thanks to some dubious marketing claims ~life Article 2075 words 3 votes
Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 1995 words 5 votes
Iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1,000 years – it's given the country an advantage into understanding the genetic makeup of coronavirus ~science Article 6 votes
Could the porn industry offer a model for reopening amid Covid-19? ~health Article 2181 words, published May 8 2020 20 votes
What it's like being a Lifeline crisis support counsellor during the coronavirus pandemic ~health.mental Article 883 words 6 votes
We asked thirteen artists how Spotify's 'Tip Jar' is working out for them ~music Article 3504 words 3 votes
Tesla sues Alameda County to force California factory reopening ~finance business Article 367 words 13 votes
CityMD mistakenly told 15,000 Americans with coronavirus antibodies they're immune ~health healthcare Article 6 votes
No new coronavirus cases recorded in New South Wales as the state prepares to ease restrictions ~health Article 645 words 5 votes
Elon Musk’s billionaire brother—Kimbal Musk—told his workers they were family. Until COVID-19 hit ~food restaurants Article 1763 words, published Apr 7 2020 9 votes
Russia’s Covid death toll could be seventy per cent higher than official figure ~health Article 692 words 11 votes