Top news of the week: 25.08.2020.
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Coronavirus
Florida's coronavirus death toll hits 10,000
Governor Ron DeSantis points to ‘good trends … positive signs’ as Andrew Cuomo warns New York school reopening will be ‘risky’
Coronavirus: Trump authorizes plasma treatment amid attacks on FDA
After president blames ‘deep state or whoever’ for slow progress, former FDA head hits back
RT @DrTomFrieden: 1/16 COVID Epi This Week: The Peril and Promise of Immunity
Covid continues to spread in most of the US at rates too high for effective contact tracing, safe in-person schooling, or economic recovery. Important hints published this week about immunity. https://t.co/C6OrLSy17H
OpenCoronavirus immunity offers perils and promise
Immunity to the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 offers both promise and peril.
RT @kellymnyc: Any modern disaster under expert scrutiny will reveal overlapping and complex phenomena that are too often oversimplified
Identifying the multiple and many-layered factors that drove the #COVID19 disaster requires taking stock of all contributing issues https://t.co/6rkmg8yD0u
OpenFor the COVID-19 Era, a United States Disaster Investigation Board
Only a bipartisan, expert-led investigation into the nation's failure to control this pandemic can establish trust for the future.
Police in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, are providing people with face masks and sandbags as Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura approach the area
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OpenThe latest on the coronavirus pandemic
The Hattiesburg Police Department in Mississippi has sandbags and face masks available for people head of Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura, according to a Facebook post from the ...
RT @TheAtlantic: "The details in the 24-page indictment describe a scam that was almost comically flagrant," @russellberman reports: https://t.co/La0Jt1OCnn
OpenThe United States Versus Steve Bannon
Masked and handcuffed, President Trump’s former chief strategist was arraigned on charges of fraud.
RT @thehowie: Unmitigated spread in a prison led to 87% infected prisoners. Another example suggesting that herd immunity for SARS-CoV2 kicks in around 60%.
Don't rely on herd immunity to save us. Rely on testing, social distancing, masks.
https://t.co/BDeOwQaxtu
OpenMass Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in 16 Prisons and Jails — Six Jurisdictions, United States, April–May 2020
This report describes the results of mass COVID-19 testing among incarcerated persons in prisons and jails in 16 adult correctional and detention facilities in the United States.
BREAKING: 1.1 million laid-off workers seek U.S. jobless aid as layoffs remain elevated in the face of virus. https://t.co/05fozoq31b
OpenRise in jobless claims reflects still-struggling US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus recession struck swiftly and violently. Now, with the U.S. economy still in the grip of the outbreak five months later, the recovery looks fitful and ...