Today's novel coronavirus (COVID-19) headlines cover a hodge-podge of topics. Scientific topics include vaccination possibilities, understanding more about how the disease spreads, and the impact that the disease is having on scientific research as a whole. Societal impacts include school closings and new possibilities for remote education. Business and policy impacts include earnings impacts, more companies enacting telecommuting policies, and possible privacy problems with Iran's official coronavirus application.
Of local interest (to me), Pennsylvania now has 10 reported cases of the illness, and a number of local schools and school districts are closed after a local pediatrician was taken ill by the virus.
In no particular order, here are today's links from my RSS feed. Please consider clicking through to upvote any Steem post(s) on the list.
- People ‘shed’ high levels of coronavirus, study finds, but most are likely not infectious after recovery begins
- How the Coronavirus Is Hampering Science
- An architect in China created a wearable shield worn like a backpack designed to protect from coronavirus
- Blockchain-Based Education Platform Offered to Schools Struck by Coronavirus
- A coronavirus vaccine will take at least 18 months—if it works at all
- Coronavirus Hot Zone: The View from the U.S. Epicenter
- Cybersecurity company Cloudflare is making a directory of free tech services to support the surge in remote workers during the coronavirus outbreak
- COVID-19 has a longer incubation period than other human coronaviruses that cause the common cold, new study finds
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: Empty Venice streets and canals amid coronavirus outbreak
- Opinion: When does a coronavirus epidemic become a pandemic? - Subtitle: Politicians aren’t calling COVID-19 a pandemic but some scientists and public health officials are
- Spying concerns raised over Iran's official COVID-19 detection app
- Tech-savvy students whose schools were shut down by coronavirus tried to avoid class by spamming the reviews on their remote-learning app to get it removed from the App Store
- Merck tells Montco employees to work from home amid coronavirus concerns
- ‘Coronavirus’ has been heard at least 9,000 times in earnings updates
- Synthetic Biologists Think They Can Develop a Better Coronavirus Vaccine Than Nature Could
- Airbnb hosts are advertising 'coronavirus-free' hideaways stocked with toilet paper and essentials amid rising panic in US cities
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- Head of Port Authority tests positive for coronavirus
- Several Pennsylvania Schools Closing For Sanitizing Over Coronavirus Concerns - One of the newly identified coronavirus victims in a nearby county is a pediatrician who has been treating kids at the local schools.
- Older people are at higher risk for the coronavirus: CDC says to stock up on food, keep away from others
- Cybersecurity experts warn that hackers are targeting people now working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak: 'They're not always as diligent'
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- Crypto Industry Continues Fight Against Coronavirus With New Contributions
- Opinion: Why this epidemiologist is more worried about coronavirus than he was a month ago - Subtitle: Americans need to prepare themselves that the next 12 months are going to look very different.
- Influenza kills more people than the coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why
- Opinion: Coronavirus: 5 reasons why so many pandemics begin in Asia or Africa
As mentioned in previous posts, here is a visualization tool for mapping the cases of COVID-19 occurrences. According to the site, this morning's worldwide number of reported cases was 114,62 with 64,046 recoveries, 4,029 deaths, and 755 cases in the US. Of the US cases, 10 are in Pennsylvania.
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