Planning is GREAT: Britain was supposed to be the most prepared country in the world. Then an unexpected enemy arrived
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Sweden has the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in the European Union, with eighty-one cases per one million citizens – nearly four times higher than the EU average
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CDC coronavirus testers pulled from Minnesota after hostile and racist encounters
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State Health Director warns coronavirus is widespread on Oahu
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Sweden has become the world’s cautionary tale
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Do Americans understand how badly they’re doing?
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Into the fog: How Britain lost track of the coronavirus
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Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns
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Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA
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The Black American amputation epidemic
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WHO warns millions of children at risk as Covid-19 pandemic disrupts routine vaccinations
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Finland has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the number of smokers without seeing a surge in e-cigarette users
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Florida's strategy to protect seniors from COVID-19
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Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps
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Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain
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What we know about your chances of catching the virus outdoors: Pandemic life is safer outdoors, in part, because even a light wind will quickly dilute the virus
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A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong.
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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
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Virus hunters rely on faxes, paper records
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COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means?
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“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response
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What happens next? COVID-19 futures, explained with playable simulations
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‘Closing borders is ridiculous’: The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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A disaster waiting to happen or a bold, evidence-based response? In Sweden, it depends who you ask
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Sweden counts coronavirus deaths in care homes but many countries do not – medical officials said a third of deaths recorded last week came from nursing home residents
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English NHS releases Covid-19 decision making tool
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Why it’s so hard to make a good COVID-19 model
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Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus
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Why I’m not making COVID19 visualizations, and why you (probably) shouldn’t either
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Novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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Blood banks narrowly averted a supply crisis. But they’re ‘worried about four weeks from now.’
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Calls grow for Germany-wide use of face masks
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As the coronavirus crisis heats up, why isn't America hearing from the CDC?
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Preliminary evidence suggests Bay Area shelter-in-place order is flattening the curve
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Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020
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Swedish PM Stefan Löfven warned over 'Russian roulette-style' Covid-19 strategy – health experts say attempt to build herd immunity is a 'mad experiment with 10m people'
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Meet seventeen-year-old Avi Schiffmann who runs a coronavirus tracking website used by 40+ million globally
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Social distancing: This is not a snow day
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The UK backs away from “herd immunity” coronavirus proposal amid blowback
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Anyone arriving in Australia from overseas will to be forced to self-isolate for fourteen days
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US Food and Drug Administration worried about blood shortage as donation drives are canceled amid coronavirus concerns
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Rep. Katie Porter gets US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief to agree to pay for coronavirus testing
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‘It’s just everywhere already’: How delays in testing set back the US coronavirus response
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The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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Hand-washing with soap and water destroys coronavirus more effectively than hand sanitizer
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Why the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched its coronavirus testing
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained
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Why Taiwan has just forty-two coronavirus cases while neighbors report hundreds or thousands
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A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health
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