What Adam is Reading 3-19-2020

Good morning, Physician Experience! It's Thursday (I think?!?)

Please keep your critical thinking focused on what you are seeing, reading, and hearing. Being at home can amplify the echo chamber of your own thoughts, especially when your colleagues are voices attached to floating letters and heads on Webex and you are ingesting media. Some more digestible thoughts on logical fallacies: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/common-logical-fallacies

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My favorite Tweet of the last 24 hours: Coronavirus Rhapsody (sorry Freddie)
https://twitter.com/danajaybein/status/1240307541491494912

Ethics, data tracking, and the balance between protecting the many, while sacrificing the (rights? Anonymity? Privacy?) of the individual.
https://www.wired.com/story/value-ethics-using-phone-data-monitor-covid-19/

Some of you know I am huge photography enthusiast. Here is a hopeful photo essay on 2 months of life in China - which is slowly returning to normal following their lockdown efforts.
https://fujilove.com/china-the-coronavirus-and-me/

An updated infographic on the latest medications being used to treat Coronavirus
https://twitter.com/PiotrOkupski/status/1239647916748398592/photo/1

There are quite a few coronavirus+ physicians on twitter documenting their experiences, including the use of hydroxychloroquine
https://twitter.com/yaletung
https://twitter.com/CasasolaGarcia

Amazing global efforts at rapid vaccine advancement, but tempered with the reality of how vaccines work... https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/coronavirus-vaccine-within-a-year-but-it-wont-be-100-effective/articleshow/74704452.cms?from=mdr

Some good suggestions on movies to catch up on whilst we all stay away from each other... https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/movie-watching-social-distancing/608275/

Bonus round
More amazing people from history that you probably don't know about...
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/

Using our time for introspection and better understanding our unconscious thoughts...
https://psych.wustl.edu/news/understanding-your-biases

Be safe out there! Wash those hands!

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