Today's Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) headlines include messaging from WHO to teens through tiktok, an argument that authoritarian governments are exacerbating the outbreak, and impacts on business from supply-chain disruptions, moratoriums on travel & reductions of on-site job interviews on one hand, and discounts from airlines on the other. Writers also advise us that there is likely to be a spike in reported cases and a decline in the mortality rate as testing improves and mild cases get incorporated into the totals.
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.
- Opinion: The coronavirus is taking aim at the heart of the American economy: Consumer spending
- These airlines are waiving flight change fees because of the coronavirus outbreak
- The Misleading Arithmetic of COVID-19 Death Rates
- UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own
- Opinion: A peek into the central banks' coronavirus toolbox: Talk (tough), cut (rates), buy (assets), invent (something...)
- Jack Dorsey's $35 billion fintech firm Square has stopped in-person job interviews as a coronavirus precaution
- Coronavirus: How behaviour can help control the spread of COVID-19
- China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why.
- A detailed guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development
- Powerful New Technologies Are Speeding the Development of a Coronavirus Vaccine
- Coinbase and Messari Employees Working Remotely due to Coronavirus
- Google, Coinbase, and Twitter are all telling some employees to work from home this week amid the spread of coronavirus
- The WHO got on TikTok to teach teens about coronavirus
- Dictatorships Are Making the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse
- Take a look at these Korean apps helping people avoid areas infected by the coronavirus
- 'There is absolutely going to be an explosion in the number of identified cases' of the coronavirus in the US in the coming days. A Yale healthcare expert explains why you shouldn't panic.
- China is reportedly making people download an Alibaba-backed app that decides whether they'll be quarantined for coronavirus
- Opinion: These simple changes would help protect the economy from the coronavirus
- As coronavirus spreads, the CDC urges sick workers to stay home — but what if you don’t get paid sick leave?
- U.S. manufacturers slow to a crawl as coronavirus bottlenecks emerge, ISM shows
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 cases was 92,196 with 48,175 recoveries, 3,129 deaths, and 105 cases in the US - of which 44 came from the Diamond Princess.
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