Saturday, June 27, 2020

Economics and Coronavirus related links 062720


FDA pulls emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.  The regulatory agency said the drug is "unlikely to be effective" in treating the coronavirus.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-pulls-emergency-use-authorization-hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-n1231076?cid=db_npd_nn_fb_fbbot&fbclid=IwAR2LhhxTsNxe9JqB9InvudAYLGql7tdXVEXGDhGl32Tuj6CiYe5NY0ADZmo

 

201,129COVID-19 deaths projected by October 1, 2020

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

 

Pence misleadingly claims coronavirus spike on rise in testing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/politics/pence-coronavirus-governors.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

Florida ordered 1M doses of a Trump-touted drug. Hospitals didn't want it

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/06/11/florida-ordered-1-million-doses-of-a-trump-touted-drug-hospitals-didnt-want-it-1292638?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fe-dd93-ad7f-f8ff7e290000&nlid=964328

 

How Dangerous Is It to Protest During a Pandemic?  Large gatherings can spread COVID-19, especially as people shout and confront police — but there are ways to mitigate the risk of transmission

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/george-floyd-protest-covid-19-pandemic-safety-1008067/

 

Just Stop the Superspreading: In our study, 20 percent of Covid-19 cases accounted for 80 percent of transmissions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/coronavirus-superspreaders.html

 

We should have done more, admits architect of Sweden's Covid-19 strategy: Anders Tegnell says there was ‘potential for improvement’ in country’s strategy to fight pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/architect-of-sweden-coronavirus-strategy-admits-too-many-died-anders-tegnell

 

China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal: Complaints by officials at odds with body’s public praise of Beijing’s response to outbreak

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/china-withheld-data-coronavirus-world-health-organization-recordings-reveal

 

Get Ready for a Covid-19 Vaccine Information War

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/coronavirus-vaccine-disinformation.html

 

Trump signs bill changing Paycheck Protection Program into law: House passed bill 417-1 last week, then late Wednesday Senate approved it unanimously after some last-minute wrangling

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-oks-tweaks-to-small-business-lending-program-bill-goes-to-trump-for-signature-2020-06-03

 

As States Reopen, the Boss Wants to Know What You’re Up To This Weekend: Employers worry that workers’ off-duty activities could risk infection in the workplace

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-boss-wants-to-know-what-youre-up-to-this-weekend-11590678062

 

Coronavirus: Riots Breed Chaos, Violence and Most Likely Covid-19

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-30/coronavirus-riots-breed-chaos-violence-and-probably-covid-19

 

Civil unrest puts US economy in a vicious circle

https://www.breakingviews.com/considered-view/civil-unrest-puts-u-s-economy-in-a-vicious-circle/

 

CDC Provides Tough New Guidelines for Reopening Offices: Check temperatures, remove seating in common areas, and have visitors phone from their cars.

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/cdc-reopening-guidelines-offices-employees-social-distancing.html

 

A Hidden COVID-19 Risk Factor: Your Boss.  America’s flawed approach to sick leave is making the pandemic worse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/sick-leave-covid-time-off/612361/

 

On the Front Lines: Community health centers play a vital role in the age of COVID-19.

https://progressive.org/magazine/on-the-front-lines-johnson/

 

Life on the Edge: The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into uncharted territory, with challenges that we have never seen before, but also fresh opportunities.

https://progressive.org/magazine/life-on-the-edge-moore-lappe/

 

Fauci said US government held off promoting face masks because it knew shortages were so bad that even doctors couldn't get enough

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-advice-was-because-doctors-shortages-from-the-start-2020-6?fbclid=IwAR1ItnL3PhPneIAH1Pon5aZqS_ZcdK2hik8U5mdItgtx7fXZYoHBdS4I4Qs

 

Some DHS employees could face furloughs even as agency reopens

https://www.federaltimes.com/management/hr/2020/06/16/some-dhs-employees-could-face-furloughs-even-as-agency-reopens/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2006.17.20&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

 

Judge rules US must release $679M in tribal virus relief funds

https://www.federaltimes.com/coronavirus/2020/06/16/judge-rules-us-must-release-679m-in-tribal-virus-relief-funds/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2006.17.20&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

 

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Give Tribes Their COVID-19 Relief Funds

The Treasury Department was planning to sit on $679 million in emergency aid that was due to go to tribal governments months ago.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tribes-covid-relief-treasury-department_n_5ee9093fc5b674996b9be1d9?fbclid=IwAR0VxFgikP7CxG9wpnyDbj9z7hsedgBLMaR2qTUJKxwY3peIk5X9KZt_ba0

 

Market Logic Is Literally Killing Us: Historically, during national emergencies like World War II, the U.S. government subordinated business interests to the public good. Why can’t it do so in the Covid-19 crisis?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/22558/COVID-19-free-market-capitalism-killing-pandemic

 

The Food Industry’s Next Covid-19 Victims: Migrant Farmworkers: Outbreaks have begun at farms around the country, thanks in large part to crowded employer-provided housing.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/22565/COVID-19-farms-pandemic-essential-workers-undocumented-coronavirus

 

U.S. Government Will Fund Three COVID-19 Vaccine Programs, Fauci Says

https://www.biospace.com/article/fauci-government-will-fund-three-covid-19-vaccine-studies/

 

Moderna to start final testing stage of coronavirus vaccine in July

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/moderna-to-start-final-testing-stage-of-coronavirus-vaccine-in-july.html

 

New Zealand Posts Two New Coronavirus Cases After Declaring Itself Virus Free

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/new-zealand-posts-two-new-coronavirus-cases-after-declaring-itself-virus-free

 

Why the NFL Is Suddenly Standing Up for Black Lives: Roger Goodell knows which way the wind blows.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/06/nfl-roger-goodell-black-lives-matter-players-video-kaepernick.html

 

COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months: The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/

 

No one knows why these Covid-19 patients’ symptoms keep relapsing: “When am I going to be free from this?”: The mystery of coronavirus relapse.

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/4/21274727/covid-19-symptoms-timeline-nausea-relapse-long-term-effects

 

Will coronavirus cause long-term chronic fatigue in some patients?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/could-covid-19-cause-long-term-chronic-fatigue-and-illness-in-some-patients/2020/05/29/bcd5edb2-a02c-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html

 

Revealed: the long-term severe effects of Covid-19 that could go on for months.  Wide-ranging and often 'bizarre' symptoms can persist weeks and even months after first falling ill

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/revealed-long-term-severe-effects-covid-19-can-go-months/

 

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today.  A crop of new studies suggests that herd immunity is still very far away.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/coronavirus-briefing-what-happened-today.html

 

AU Criticizes Private School Aid In Coronavirus Relief Bill

https://www.au.org/church-state/june-2020-church-state-magazine/au-bulletin/au-criticizes-private-school-aid-in

 

Graham Group Shuts Down NY Field Hospital

https://www.au.org/church-state/june-2020-church-state-magazine/au-bulletin/graham-group-shuts-down-ny-field-hospital

 

Workers Fearful of the Coronavirus Are Getting Fired and Losing Their Benefits: Thousands who refuse to return to work are being reported to the state to have their unemployment benefits potentially revoked

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/virus-unemployment-fired.html

 

Coronavirus VIII: Prisons & Jails: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuxnH0VAkAM

 

Michael Jackson | Covid 19 | Billy Jean's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oSYtLjB78

 

What is the New Normal?

https://www.populist.com/26.11.mcmillen.html

 

DISPATCHES: LOCKDOWN PROTESTS MAY HAVE SPREAD VIRUS WIDELY, CELLPHONE DATA SUGGESTS, etc.

https://www.populist.com/26.11.dispatches.html

 

Froma Harrop: Pandemic makes end-of-life care harder

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/may/22/froma-harrop-pandemic-makes-end-of-life-care-harde/

 

Reopening the Economy is a Death Sentence for Workers: The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

https://www.populist.com/26.11.owliaei.html

 

Whatever Your Survival Strategy Is, Do That: Feel proud of yourself for getting through this — don’t beat yourself up for not getting through it “better.”

https://www.populist.com/26.11.richardson.html

 

The US Reaches the Tipping Point

https://www.populist.com/26.11.burnett.html

 

The C-19 Apocalypse: Beyond a Sci-Fi Reality

https://www.populist.com/26.11.rodriguez.html

 

Urban Policies Confront the Pandemic Challenge

https://www.populist.com/26.11.gunasekaran.html

 

Joe Conason has a prescription for a sick country

https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/joe-conason-has-a-prescription-for-a-sick-country/

 

We Need a Centralized Medical System, Too

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_ted_rall/we_need_a_centralized_medical_system_too

 

COVID-19 in the Golden State’s jails and prisons

https://www.populist.com/26.11.sandronsky.html

 

Baseball’s Plan to Reopen Is All Risk for the Players: The media and the owners are pressuring the players to take a lousy deal and return to the field during a pandemic.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mlb-baseball-coronavirus/

 

Democracy Now | ‘Stay at Home, Stay Alive, Organize, Organize’

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/05/23/democracy-now-stay-at-home-stay-alive-organize-organize/

 

The Peace Sign: A Safe Greeting and Sign of Victory over COVID!

https://www.populist.com/26.11.finley.html

 

Pandemic Stories In The News: Something To Laugh About

https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/pandemic-stories-in-the-news-something-to-laugh-about/

 

Cooper requires masks, keeps NC in Phase Two in effort to slow coronavirus spread

https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article243760267.html?fbclid=IwAR32apdh0fJR1KHKlkRGRVBQVk2Gnw3C1wlifUCsDwO_-jN5j_XHpPNS2js

 

Protesters Call for Justice After Fatal Shooting of 18-Year-Old Andres Guardado in Gardena, CA

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/headlines/protesters_call_for_justice_after_fatal_shooting_of_18_year_old_andres_guardado_in_gardena_ca?fbclid=IwAR1YXr-bSDpSql-L2ppefFEDjWtcwXk2tROFA9HQB8Irdh4Sh-piie2cyqw

 

Why Octavius V. Catto remains a civil rights icon in Philly | Opinion

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/statues-philadelphia-octavius-catto-george-floyd-protests-20200622.html?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email

 

Octavius Catto would’ve relished 2020’s call for equality | Opinion

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/george-floyd-police-reform-catto-statue-philadelphia-protests-20200618.html?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email

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