Today's articles on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tell us that the World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first morality estimate from the disease, talk about preparations in hospitals and nursing homes, and of course, more business impacts - with telecommuting gaining strength and the first indicators beginning to show up at macro levels in the economy. Read on for articles covering those topics, and more.
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.
- Steem
: Coronavirus | First no handshakes now elbow bumping?
- The rush to deploy robots in China amid the coronavirus outbreak
- How Philadelphia-area hospitals are preparing to treat coronavirus patients
- TikTokers are filming themselves while in quarantine for the coronavirus — here are some of the best videos
- Lyft, Uber appear to disagree on coronavirus effect on ride-hailing industry - More people taking Lyft due to egress from public transit. Less people taking Uber from the airports.
- Coronavirus is bigger stock-market driver than politics, this chart says
- Before Coronavirus Outbreak, Many Nursing Homes Had Infection-Control Lapses
- Tech firms push telework as Amazon employee confirmed with coronavirus
- Google reportedly stops all in-person interviews amid coronavirus fears
- Fed Beige Book reports first negative impact of coronavirus on U.S. economy
- A startup CEO who relies on factories in China says his business won't be hurt by the coronavirus. Here's how he navigated the crisis.
- 'It was surreal': How a Bay Area man spent a week in China amid the coronavirus outbreak before following the CDC's advice to self-quarantine for 2 weeks after returning to the US
- A new study of IT pros finds that over half of healthcare organizations have been targeted by cyberattack, even as coronavirus continues to spread
- Blockchain as a Tool to Combat Coronavirus
- Gene sleuths are tracking the coronavirus outbreak as it happens
- Global economic growth slowdown from coronavirus will be more significant than previously thought, IMF chief says
- Chester County tech firm goes international, targets Asia despite coronavirus fears
- The conspiracy theories about the origins of the coronavirus, debunked
- Mortality Rate Lower Than Past Coronavirus Outbreaks, Higher Than Seasonal Flu - 3.4% for COVID-19 as opposed to 0.1% for flu, but the coronavirus numbers don't include unreported/undiagnosed cases - and will probably drop, a lot.
- As the coronavirus spreads, one study predicts that even the best-case scenario is 15 million dead and a $2.4 trillion hit to global GDP
- The CEO of Zoom says that the coronavirus outbreak is going to drive way more companies to remote work even after it's all over
- Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Vaccines
- With Covid-19, Tech Is Making History Repeat Itself - Article argues that tech is amplifying sell-offs, secrecy, and scapegoating.
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 95,748 with 53,423 recoveries, 3,286 deaths, and 159 cases in the US - of which 45 came from the Diamond Princess.
So, the numbers are getting bigger, but with 1,498 new cases and 2,397 at least the number of recoveries is growing faster than the number of new cases. ( As 
As of now, there are still no confirmed cases in Pennsylvania, but a lab in the state began testing for it yesterday, so I'm expecting to start seeing some very soon.
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