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8 votes
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A home for all COVID-19 related Mental Health Resources - #IsolatedNOTAlone
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Mass testing is the best hope for normalcy after quarantine
I'm sure something everyone has wondered at this point is simply what the plan is after the lockdown. Out of what's circulating in public policy circles, Paul Romer's plan is the probably the one...
I'm sure something everyone has wondered at this point is simply what the plan is after the lockdown. Out of what's circulating in public policy circles, Paul Romer's plan is the probably the one with the most appealing results
https://paulromer.net/covid-sim-part1/
Basically, mass random testing--specifically, 7% of the population is tested every day, or 21 million, selected randomly.
Of course, 21 million random tests is an absurd number. But if it could be done, people could to some extent resume life, if the simulations hold to reality.
On the other hand, plans like
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/national-coronavirus-response-a-road-map-to-reopening/
https://ethics.harvard.edu/covid-19-response
Have a few things in common. For one, they all involve incredibly advance and detailed contact tracing. They rely on the proliferation of mass surveillance similar to HK, where all US citizens would have to install apps, for instance, that track their location and ping them when they have been in contact with a COVID19 positive patient.
They also involve extreme limitations on travel, and one of them even has the forced drafting of immune citizens into the medical and food industries.
It's estimated about 80% of the economy could continue, and they will last until the minimum of vaccine (18 months - 2 years) or 14-20 months (herd immunity is achieved).
What does everyone else think? What do you think we should do after the lockdown?
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More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but US federal government isn't tracking them
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The big lesson from South Korea's coronavirus response: Testing and tracing were the key to slowing the spread of coronavirus
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Furor erupts: Billions going to hospitals based on Medicare billings, not COVID-19
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Aggressive testing, contact tracing, cooked meals: How the Indian state of Kerala flattened its coronavirus curve
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COVID-19 and circuits of capital
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 10
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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UK PM Boris Johnson out of intensive care but remains in hospital
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 9
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
7 votes -
Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus
6 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion for COVID-19 relief worldwide
13 votes -
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care
17 votes -
Corona-AI project asks DreamLab app users to help create ‘virtual supercomputer’ to assist in COVID-19 research efforts
5 votes -
Why I’m not making COVID19 visualizations, and why you (probably) shouldn’t either
4 votes -
The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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Coronavirus state-by-state projections
9 votes -
Every little thing - Essential workers call in
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 8
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
10 votes -
Why measles deaths are surging — and coronavirus could make it worse
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 7
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
The GP office managers who turned COVID-19 frustration into an Australia-wide sanitiser supply chain
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A nurse bought protective supplies for her colleagues using GoFundMe. The hospital suspended her.
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Shopping in LA? Cover your face or get tossed, Garcetti orders
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Does JK Rowling’s breathing technique cure the coronavirus? No, it could help spread it
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For jobless Americans, Obamacare is still a potential lifeline
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I have asthma. Am I more at risk of having a severe coronavirus infection?
Here's the article: I have asthma. Am I more at risk of having a severe coronavirus infection? Here's the key point: at this stage, there's no evidence to indicate that people with asthma — even...
Here's the article: I have asthma. Am I more at risk of having a severe coronavirus infection?
Here's the key point:
at this stage, there's no evidence to indicate that people with asthma — even those with severe asthma — are more prone than others to becoming seriously ill with a COVID-19 infection
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China ends Wuhan lockdown after more than ten weeks, but normal life is still a distant dream
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New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it
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The bar necessities: Five ways to understand coronavirus graphs
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Apple to make millions of face shields for hospitals desperate for gear
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Canada working to produce up to 30,000 ventilators domestically
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What are your opinions on how Boris Johnson has handled the COVID-19 crisis?
I’m seeing him get a lot of negative press on how he has handled it, but I personally don’t see what he has done wrong so I’m interested in what others think about it, has he handled it wrong or...
I’m seeing him get a lot of negative press on how he has handled it, but I personally don’t see what he has done wrong so I’m interested in what others think about it, has he handled it wrong or are the press just looking for someone to blame?
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Now that Australia appears to have got the coronavirus under control, it faces an even more disturbing choice on how to end the epidemic
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 6
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
6 votes -
Read about a new COVID-19 treatment study? It probably won't work
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Boris Johnson admitted to hospital as COVID-19 symptoms persist
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Acting US Navy Secretary: 'I stand by every word I said' after leak of carrier speech
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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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Cuban doctors fighting coronavirus around world, defying US
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Australia should be moving to utilise people who have recovered from coronavirus and developed immunity against the virus to bolster essential services, a leading expert says
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 5
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown
8 votes -
William Osman did a vlog about his wife testing positive for COVID-19
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New York is merging all its hospitals to battle the coronavirus
9 votes -
The lockdown effect
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Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus
3 votes -
Let's all wear a mask
11 votes