New Zealand covid-19 flight outbreak linked to passenger who tested negative – The Washington Post

November 21, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/11/20/new-zealand-flight-covid/


Covid Indoors: Scrubbing Surfaces Does Little to Mitigate Threat – The New York Times

November 21, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/world/asia/covid-cleaning.html


F.D.A. Authorizes the First At-Home Coronavirus Test – The New York Times

November 20, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus#all-of-switzerlands-regular-intensive-care-beds-are-full


Suggested Hikes Archives – Guilford Land Conservation Trust

November 20, 2020

https://guilfordlandtrust.org/wordpress/category/suggested-hikes
1st 2 are off 146


America Is on Track to Hit a COVID-19 Death Record – The Atlantic

November 20, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/11/coronavirus-death-rate-third-surge/617150/


How to set up Family Sharing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac | Macworld

November 20, 2020

https://www.macworld.com/article/3512958/how-to-set-up-family-sharing-on-your-iphone-ipad-or-mac.html


The Children Never Had Covid. So Why Did They Have Coronavirus Antibodies? – The New York Times

November 19, 2020

Wonder whether the chronic inflammation in asthmatic patients also has similar effects & if this explains why #COVID19 didn’t hit asthmatics quite as hard as was expected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/coronavirus-children.html

QT:{{”
After examining blood taken from 190 people before the pandemic emerged, Dr. Elledge and his colleagues concluded that many already had antibodies, including the one targeting the base of the spike — presumably from infections with related coronaviruses that cause colds.

But while adults might get one or two colds a year, Dr. Elledge said, children may get up to a dozen. As a result, many develop floods of coronavirus antibodies that are present almost continuously; they may lessen cold symptoms, or even leave children with colds that are symptomless but still infectious.
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https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1329640801668829186


Treating asthma or COPD with steroid inhaler increases the risk of hard-to-treat infections — ScienceDaily

November 19, 2020

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170921095513.htm


What’s the worst that could happen? – The world should think better about catastrophic and existential ri sks | Briefing | The Economist

November 19, 2020

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/06/25/the-world-should-think-better-about-catastrophic-and-existential-risks +
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event


Saliva tests show promise for widespread COVID-19 surveillance at universities and workplaces

November 19, 2020

https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/diagnostics/Saliva-tests-show-promise-widespread/98/web/2020/08