Greetings!
Another week of increased cases, and lots of conversations in your home and mine as to why we are here. Our curated news over the past five weeks has offered a clear picture of what worked around the world: Masks, social distance–and equally important–test, trace, and isolate! In the flattened curve world, be it Berlin, Singapore, Auckland, Sydney and even New York City, we witnessed this strategy work. Today, in flattened curve world, when there is an increase they act immediately to test, trace, and isolate. In flattened curve world, a flare-up does not become a spike.
Where are we and what is the latest news?
Directly below, we offer a great interactive data tool (yes we have offered a few and all of those merit a bookmark and an occasional look). Our newest is “Information is Beautiful;" take a look, I predict bookmarking.
Secondly, assuming that virtually all of us spent about three hours this past weekend watching Hamilton, we cannot top that; yet we think that to know the current state of the pandemic you can spend less than 30 minutes more of your time in front of your screen. We bring you the two most important and distinguished public health scientists to your screen in the dialogue between the head of the National Institute of Health Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Apologies for the Hamilton reference yet no two scientists were “in the room” more for this pandemic and those prior than Fauci and Collins. They are old friends and collaborators in cures and public health efforts and they offer us an update on the treatments, search for vaccines, and all you want to know.
LA Times
reporting on California tells us that Governor "Newsom, coming under fire, ramps up enforcement and adds counties to watch list. Newsom vows to crack down on restaurants and bars that ignored restrictions over the July 4 weekend. Some critics say it is too little, too late" A look at California's current challenges and new voices finding fault with its Governor is third.
The last block offers an article on the today’s testing failure and another one: the current state of the science on how Covid-19 is transmitted. This is
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for July 8, 2020:
