Coronavirus Info for the Scientifically Minded

Bill Gates – The first modern pandemic

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Pandemic-Innovation

https://media.gatesnotes.com/-/media/Files/Health/Pandemic-I-The-First-Modern-Pandemic

U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, exceeding number attributed to covid-19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/covid-19-death-toll-undercounted/

Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported

https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c

Latin American gravediggers fear virus death toll higher than admitted

https://www.ft.com/content/7b46b8c3-b395-45ba-af68-50280cfeed47

The Coronavirus Isn’t Just the Flu, Bro

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-24/is-coronavirus-worse-than-the-flu-blood-studies-say-yes-by-far

Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the post-pandemic period

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/24/science.abb5793

The latest on the coronavirus

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/the-latest-on-the-coronavirus/

R0, the Messy Metric That May Soon Shape Our Lives, Explained

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/coronavirus-R0-explainer.html

Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R₀)

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article

Quantifying the Wellbeing Costs of Covid-19
https://nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/reports/research-note-quantifying-the-wellbeing-costs-of-covid-19/

How South Korea Stopped COVID-19 Early
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-south-korea-stopped-covid19-early-by-myoung-hee-kim-2020-04

Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not

Why the worst fears about Florida’s Covid-19 outbreak haven’t been realized (so far)

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/24/21234641/florida-coronavirus-covid-19-stay-at-home

What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/15/999351/a-healthy-understanding/