The Rising Heroes of the Coronavirus Era? Nations’ Top Scientists – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/europe/scientists-coronavirus-heroes.html


Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-restrictions-fevers.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesscience


Boris Johnson Hospitalized as Queen Urges British Resolve in Face of Epidemic – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/europe/coronavirus-queen-elizabeth-speech.html


Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Daily Data Summary

April 5, 2020

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-deaths-04042020-1.pdf

Useful resource.
Clearly indicates characteristics of mortality:
M>F, old>young & pre-existing condition v healthy

Also: https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1246516101976133632


A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-death-rate.html


Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? – WSJ

April 5, 2020

Interesting analysis, illustrating selection bias

QT:{{”
On or around Jan. 31, countries sent planes to evacuate citizens from Wuhan, China. When those planes landed, the passengers were tested for Covid-19 and quarantined. After 14 days, the percentage who tested positive was 0.9%. If this was the prevalence in the greater Wuhan area on Jan. 31, then, with a population of about 20 million, greater Wuhan had 178,000 infections, about 30-fold more than the number of reported cases. The fatality rate, then, would be at least 10-fold lower than estimates based on reported cases.
…

The best (albeit very weak) evidence in the U.S. comes from the National Basketball Association. Between March 11 and 19, a
substantial number of NBA players and teams received testing. By March 19, 10 out of 450 rostered players were positive. Since not everyone was tested, that represents a lower bound on the prevalence of 2.2%. T… But if we extend that lower-bound assumption to cities with NBA teams (population 45 million), we get at least 990,000 infections in the U.S. …These numbers imply a fatality rate from Covid-19 orders of magnitude smaller than it appears.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464


Opinion | Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html


More Americans Should Probably Wear Masks for Protection – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/health/us-coronavirus-face-masks.html


New York Pleads for Factory Owners to Switch Up and Make Coronavirus Gear | CoStar

April 5, 2020

https://www.costar.com/article/2137057160/new-york-pleas-for-factories-to-switch-up-and-make-coronavirus-gear


Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome – The New York Times

April 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/science/coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html