Articles – 2020 COVID-19 TRUSTED EXERTS
Obama warned of pandemic threat in 2014, but GOP blocked funding
– SUPPLY CHAIN China’s Export Restrictions Strand Medical Goods U.S. – Needs to Fight Coronavirus, State Department Says. Products made by 3M, Owens & Minor, PerkinElmer sit in warehouses; GE ventilator production line in Wisconsin nearly brought to a halt.
– Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (research from EPFL, ETHZ, Oxford)
-U.S. conservatives who detest climate models add a new target: coronavirus models
-U.N. Backs Down From Using Chinese Tech Giant to Host Summit Following Backlash
-COCID-19 Coronavirus Considerations
-Trump’s Entire Coronavirus Response Is Massive Political Corruption
-COVID stimulus has tax loophole for millionaires
-WHO turned down more than 70% of Taiwan’s requests for technical meetings
-WHO needs to invite Taiwan to attend World Health Assembly: MOFA
4/12/2020 The coronavirus can travel at least 13 feet, new study shows
There could be more than a million cases in the world right now, there could be anywhere from 10 million to perhaps 100 million. That also means the extreme preventive measures like stay-at-home orders could last months, not weeks, Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, tells the health news site Stat.
– More than 21,000 dead as UN warns of threat to ‘whole of humanity’
– More than one outlet is reporting COVID-19 does indeed impact the central nervous system resulting in the loss of smell, taste, slurred speech, and in extreme conditions convulsions. PDF DOI: 10.111/cns.13372
– Old Drug, New Treatment? An anticoagulant naturally produced by the body, tPA was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1996 for use in patients experiencing heart attack, stroke and pulmonary embolism.
– US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages
Should passengers return to cruise ships after the pandemic? No
– Evidence that coronavirus originated at Chinese lab is ‘inconclusive,’ top general says
– Wuhan doctors plan long-term look at coronavirus impact on male sex hormone
– Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection upon male gonadal function: A single center-based study which was not peer-reviewed) PDF
– 3/15 Newsweek The novel #coronavirus may cause testicular damage and male infertility, Chinese experts found, recommending infected men take tests for semen quality and hormone levels. And the DailyMail.co.uk
Amazon fires two employees who condemned treatment of warehouse workers
– Amazon reportedly planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates starting next week
– The rates will drop the money website owners make through affiliate links
Trump mentioned virus in 20 of almost 900 February tweets
– NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for COVID-19 Research
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