Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked? Examples of innovation aren’t getting the fanfare they would do if they emerged from Europe or the US
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Scientists say social distancing has worked really well to reduce coronavirus's spread: new study finds measures saved thirty-five million Americans from contracting the virus
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How America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead: As racism warps the US pandemic response, a health crisis has escalated into a culture war
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Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps
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CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
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‘How can I be sick?’ Woman who took hydroxychloroquine for nineteen years to treat lupus still got COVID-19.
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Saudi Arabia, other gulf states reimpose strict measures after coronavirus cases spike during Ramadan
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Florida COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul
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Poll: More voters trust Biden to contain coronavirus spread
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Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain
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How fast are people returning to pre-COVID lifestyles?
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‘Hard stop’: US states could lose National Guard virus workers
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Straight talk from ex-CDC for the long slog ahead
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Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases results of investigation showing that recovered cases that re-test positive later are not infectious
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World Health Organization approves inquiry into global coronavirus response
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State and federal data on COVID-19 testing don’t match up
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Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus
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It’s time to get on the bidet train, America
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The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks
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Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine shows encouraging early results
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Canada’s nursing home crisis: Eighty-one percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities
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US President Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns
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Amid the coronavirus crisis, a regimen for reëntry
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Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm
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Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria is just one of Africa’s alarming hot spots
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Hospitals in Brazil's São Paulo 'near collapse'
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Remdesivir distribution causes confusion, leaves some US hospitals empty-handed
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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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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of May 11
This thread is posted weekly, 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 weekly, 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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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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New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in forty-nine days
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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
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Q Team is content that COVIDSafe is an innocuous application that should be considered safe to download for most people
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Building a mouse squad against Covid-19
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How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California
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Llama antibodies could help fight coronavirus, study finds
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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
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“Immune to evidence”: How dangerous coronavirus conspiracies spread
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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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US FDA halts coronavirus testing program backed by Bill Gates
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Bangladesh says coronavirus detected in Rohingya refugee camp
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A spectacularly bad Washington Post story on Apple and Google’s exposure notification project
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Jair Bolsonaro's health minister quits, deepening Brazil coronavirus crisis
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Two Rohingya refugees have tested positive for coronavirus in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh
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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
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Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid contact-tracing app—and it hasn’t helped much
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As coronavirus overruns Russia, doctors are dying on the front lines
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Contact tracing and privacy protection
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It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers
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