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Early graduation could send US medical students to virus front lines

Early graduation could send US medical students to virus front lines

Emma Goldberg, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 27 11:46 AM

The battle to treat an ever-growing number of patients infected with the new coronavirus just gained its newest recruits: soon-to-be medical graduates. Several medical schools in Massachusetts and New York announced this week that they intended to offer early graduation to their fourth-year students, fast-tracking them into front-line hospital care as the need for medical workers surges.   Read more »

India, Day 1: World’s Largest Coronavirus Lockdown Begins

India, Day 1: World’s Largest Coronavirus Lockdown Begins

Karan Deep Singh, Vindu Goel, Hari Kumar and Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 26 11:45 AM

India’s economy was sputtering even before its leader announced the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown. Now the state-ordered paralysis of virtually all commerce in the country has put millions of people out of work and left many families struggling to eat.   Read more »

Can you become immune to the coronavirus?

Can you become immune to the coronavirus?

Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times
Updated as of Mar 26 09:25 AM

As the number of people infected with the coronavirus surpasses 450,000 worldwide, and more than 1 billion are locked in their homes, scientists are wrestling with one of the most pressing questions of the pandemic: Do people who survive the infection become immune to the virus?   Read more »

The do's and don’ts of online video meetings

The do's and don’ts of online video meetings

Brian X. Chen, The New York Times
Updated as of Mar 26 08:35 AM

In the age of coronavirus, many of us have transformed overnight from office workers into telecommuters. And we are increasingly relying on videoconferencing apps like Zoom and FaceTime to correspond with our peers.   Read more »

Jobs, business, liquidity: How the US is preparing for recession due to coronavirus

Jobs, business, liquidity: How the US is preparing for recession due to coronavirus

Neil Irwin, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 26 08:33 AM

One Federal Reserve official has said the unemployment rate could hit 30 percent, 3 times its level at the worst point of the 2008-09 Great Recession. And he has suggested that GDP could fall at a 50 percent annual rate next quarter, which would be 5 times worse than the worst single quarter on record. Economic forecasters at major banks differ in degree, not direction, of the disaster facing the US economy.   Read more »

How South Korea Flattened the Curve

How South Korea Flattened the Curve

Max Fisher and Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times
Updated as of Mar 24 11:42 AM

South Korea is one of only two countries with large outbreaks, alongside China, to flatten the curve of new infections. And it has done so without China’s draconian restrictions on speech and movement, or economically damaging lockdowns like those in Europe and the U.S. Read more »

Some tips on how to stay sane in a world that isn’t

Some tips on how to stay sane in a world that isn’t

Katherine Rosman, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 23 04:56 PM

Erasing anxiety from daily life isn’t an option for most people today. But therapists, clergy and meditation specialists say there are simple and accessible ways to overcome debilitating panic.   Read more »

Warmer weather may slow, but not halt coronavirus: MIT

Warmer weather may slow, but not halt coronavirus: MIT

Knvul Sheikh and Ernesto Londoño, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 23 10:13 AM

Communities living in warmer places appear to have a comparative advantage to slow the transmission of coronavirus infections, according to an early analysis by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more »

Deniers and Disbelievers: 'If I Get Corona, I Get Corona.'

Deniers and Disbelievers: 'If I Get Corona, I Get Corona.'

John Branch, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 23 10:12 AM

Across the United States, from Florida beaches to California mountains, casinos to national parks, legions dismissed the growing demands this past week to isolate themselves and stop congregating as the coronavirus spread through the country and shut down nearly all facets of American life. Read more »

'Wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week.'

'Wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week.'

Evan Hill and Yousur Al-Hlou, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 20 12:06 PM

MAARAT MISRIN, Syria — In northwestern Syria, where 1 million people who have fled the civil war are sheltering in muddy tent camps and abandoned buildings, the spread of the coronavirus could wreak untold disaster on a devastated region. Read more »

A promising treatment for coronavirus fails

A promising treatment for coronavirus fails

Denise Grady, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 19 01:29 PM

Antiviral drugs that had held promise as a potential treatment for the coronavirus did not work in one of the first major studies in seriously ill patients, researchers from China reported Wednesday. Read more »

Workers most at risk from COVID-19 are on the front lines

Workers most at risk from COVID-19 are on the front lines

Lazaro Gamio, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 18 02:06 PM

As the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the United States, people with jobs that put them in physical contact with others — including those at the front lines of the response — are at the greatest risk of becoming sick.   Read more »

Lyle Waggoner of TV's 'Wonder Woman', 'Carol Burnett Show' dies at 84

Lyle Waggoner of TV's 'Wonder Woman', 'Carol Burnett Show' dies at 84

Daniel E. Slotnik, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 18 12:57 PM

Lyle Waggoner, the sable-haired heartthrob best remembered as the announcer and a comic performer in the early years of “The Carol Burnett Show” and for playing opposite Lynda Carter on the 1970s television versions of “Wonder Woman,” died Tuesday at his home in Westlake Village, California. He was 84.   Read more »

To track coronavirus, Israel moves to tap secret trove of cellphone data

To track coronavirus, Israel moves to tap secret trove of cellphone data

David M. Halbfinger, Isabel Kershner and Ronen Bergman, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 17 09:35 AM

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has authorized the country’s internal security agency to tap into a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus and identify others who should be quarantined because their paths crossed. Read more »

2 US emergency room doctors in critical condition with coronavirus

2 US emergency room doctors in critical condition with coronavirus

Karen Weise and Vanessa Swales, The New York Times
Updated as of Mar 16 04:06 PM

Two emergency medicine doctors, in New Jersey and Washington state, are in critical condition as a result of coronavirus, reinforcing concerns that the nation’s front-line medical workers are becoming especially vulnerable to the virus, the American College of Emergency Physicians said.  Read more »

A lockdown, Paris-style: 'We can’t live without bread'

A lockdown, Paris-style: 'We can’t live without bread'

Adam Nossiter, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 16 12:23 PM

Parisians took the French government’s partial lockdown measures in stride on Sunday, half shrugging off the coronavirus threat and only limiting their normal weekend’s activities: shopping at open-air markets, strolling in parks and lining up outside bakeries and butchers. Read more »

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