NYU Preparing for Possible Use of Dorms as Field Hospitals
Contingency planning for emergency hospitals.
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UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet
The UN feels compelled to weigh in on the less-than-sunny economic outlook.
Read more...Low-Cost Ventilators Could Be Available Next Year. But Will It Happen?
Will the US get serious about getting more ventilators?
Read more...A View From The Front Lines Of California’s COVID-19 Battle
California braces for the COVID-19 storm.
Read more...Why Sanctions Against Iran and Venezuela During a Pandemic Are Cruel
A moral and practical case against continuing economic sanctions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more...How Lifesaving Organs For Transplant Go Missing In Transit
Scores of organs — mostly kidneys — are trashed each year and many more become critically delayed while being shipped on commercial airliners, a new investigation finds.
Read more...The Fed Backfires: Shock and Awe Rate Drop to 0%, Emergency Bond Buying Program Leads to Limit Down Drops in US Equity Futures as Real World Coronavirus Damage Worsens
The Fed just told everyone to assume the brace position.
Read more...‘Grotesque Level of Greed’: Owned by World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos, Whole Foods Wants Workers to Pay for Colleagues’ Sick Leave During Coronavirus Pandemic
Jeff Bezos continues to abuse his workers, this time (or more accurately, again) at Whole Foods.
Read more...Coronavirus Testing Shortages Force Extreme Shift In Strategy By Local Health Officials
Yves here. The admission that the US, even if it had coronavirus test results, lacked the institutional capacity to do contact tracing, is a stunner. Gee, we supposedly live in a world of AI and big data, but our Silicon Valley gearheads can’t come close to what China has done? But we can find the […]
Read more...COVID-19 Math Explained, With Data
Looking at COVID-19 R0s.
Read more...When Safety Measures Lead to Riskier Behavior by More People
How safety measures can backfire.
Read more...After Bloody Day, Coronavirus Meltdown Continues. Big Danger: Italian and Eurobanks Are Set To Blow
So many coronavirus panics that a looming risk is getting little notice: implosion of Italy’s banks, a potential Credit Anstalt event.
Read more...As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin To Speak Out
It’s not just that suicides are rising among teens but that many well-adjusted-seeming kids are killing themselves.
Read more...A Tale of Two Cities: How Hong Kong Has Controlled its Coronavirus Outbreak, While New York City Scrambles
Discussion with Dr. Sarah Borwein, a Canadian doctor practicing medicine in Hong Kong, on that city’s management of the coronavirus crisis.
Read more...Mr. Market Loses It Over Coronavirus Risk: Oil Tanks, S&P Futures Trades Halted on Limit Down Overnight, Gold Jumps
Coronavirus infects Mr. Market.
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