[Share n burn] Today's coronavirus (COVID-19) links - April 17, 2020
In no particular order, here are today's links from my RSS feed. Please consider clicking through to upvote any Steem post(s) on the list.
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Just for fun, here's a weekly update to the graph of the total and new numbers of cases that I've logged for the US each day in this series.
The numbers continue to peel away from exponential trend lines. New cases declined ffor three consecutive days, but they have been increasing again for the last three.As mentioned in previous posts, here is a visualization tool for mapping the cases of COVID-19 occurrences.
According to the site, this morning's worldwide number of reported cases was 2,181,508 with 554,899 recoveries, 147,337 fatalities, and 671,493 cases in the US.
Of the cases in the US, the site reports 56,236 recoveries, 33,288 fatalities, and 28,314 cases in Pennsylvania.
The site also reports 109,494 hospitalizations and 3,423,034 total tests administered.
- Steem @krnel: Are the Coronavirus Death Counts Accurate?
- Steem @meepins: US COVID Update (17-04-2020)
- Steem @rt-international: ‘We acted in the same way’: Moscow says will accept US offer to ship ventilators to Russia if needed
- Spanish Researchers Working to Curb Coronavirus Spread With Blockchain App - Subtitle: Researchers in Spain are racing to develop a smartphone app that leverages blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to help stem the coronavirus pandemic.
- Will States Owe Businesses Just Compensation for Forced Closures When the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over? - Subtitle: A regulatory taking is when a regulation put forth by a governmental authority diminishes the value of one’s property.
- Covid-19 Does Not Discriminate by Body Weight - Subtitle: The claim that those with higher BMIs are at special risk of dying from the coronavirus is grossly overstated.
- Five Ways Blockchain Tech Can Help Us During This Pandemic - Subtitle: Don and Alex Tapscott are the co-authors of Blockchain Revolution and co-founders of the Blockchain Research Institute. Alex’s new book is Financial Services Revolution. Together they wrote the report Blockchain Solutions in Pandemics.
- COVID-19 Could Help Solve Climate Riddles - Subtitle: Pollution declines from pandemic shutdowns may aid in answering long-standing questions about how aerosols influence climate
- Covid-19 Stalls Clinical Trials for Everything but Covid-19 - Subtitle: Tests for many experimental drugs are now on hold, but for patients with life-threatening diseases, that means putting hope on hold too.
- Tech Companies Reckon With the Pandemic - Subtitle: Some players in the tech industry pivot hard to address the global health crisis. But in many ways, business continues as usual.
- Conspiracy theories blaming Bill Gates for the coronavirus pandemic are exploding online
- New Blockchain Solution to Fight COVID-19 Complies With EU Data Privacy Regs
- The UK scrambles to launch its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, after getting derailed by Apple and Google
- AI Uncovers a Potential Treatment for Covid-19 Patients - Subtitle: Software suggested an arthritis drug might quell an out-of-control immune response that damages the lungs. Now it's being tested in a clinical trial.
- Does Covid-19 Contact Tracing Pose a Privacy Risk? Your Questions, Answered - Subtitle: Apple and Google's Bluetooth-based system isn't perfect. But many of the biggest concerns have solutions.
- Are Crowded Cities the Reason for the COVID-19 Pandemic? - Subtitle: Placing too much blame on urban density is a mistake
- Facebook will now warn you if you’ve interacted with fake, dangerous coronavirus posts - Subtitle: The fight against COVID-19 scams, misinformation, and fake cures continues.
- President of Giant Co. on keeping shelves stocked and seeing 'best of humanity' amid pandemic
- Facebook is stepping up its efforts to debunk coronavirus falsehoods
- For seniors on COVID-19 lockdown, Alexa proves to be a valuable friend - Subtitle: At California senior living centers run by the nonprofit Eskaton, technology use is up among seniors looking to fend off loneliness. Their changing habits shed new light on why some tools like voice assistants are more useful than others.
- An Oral History of the Pandemic Warnings Trump Ignored - Subtitle: The president says “nobody ever expected a thing like this,” but dire predictions have been heaped on leaders for decades.
- Amazon assembles team of boffins, devs, project managers and more to figure out mass coronavirus testing - Subtitle: Jeff Bezos imagines the negatives can go out to work and spend, the infected can watch more Amazon Prime Video at home
- COVID-19 will hit certain Indian IT contracts harder than others - Subtitle: Digital projects of sizeable scale will suffer while those that offer short-term cost savings are looking to be more teneable
- A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat - Subtitle: Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
- Sweden’s Other Path in Confronting the Coronavirus - Introduction: Unlike its European neighbors and much of the rest of the world, Sweden has chosen to keep its borders open, permitted most economic activity to continue, and avoided a mandated lockdown in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Critics harshly condemn the country as irresponsible and supporters point to it as an example to follow.
Here is a video:
- COVID-19 will hit certain Indian IT contracts harder than others - Subtitle: Digital projects of sizeable scale will suffer while those that offer short-term cost savings are looking to be more teneable
- As the coronavirus crisis continues, more tech workers are feeling concerned about their jobs. These charts show which companies have the most angst.
- The internet is hanging in there despite the coronavirus - Subtitle: There are a lot of things going wrong thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but the internet itself is still right as rain.
- COVID-19 Is Forcing Governments to Admit Their Regulations Aren't Really Necessary
- Penn Nursing providing free telehealth training during pandemic
- The Bodies of People Who Died from COVID-19 May Still Be Contagious - Subtitle: A forensic worker in Thailand most likely caught the virus from a deceased patient, a preprint study suggests
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