April 29, 2020
Wednesday
I am pondering what the unintended consequences of this pandemic will be. So much time, energy, and resources are being directed to testing, vaccines, and therapies. We will have byproducts, both good and bad. And the day to day changes from telehealth to an intense interest in home-baking will have lasting repercussions (like remotely counseling people to eat less bread? Pro-yeast advocates?). Over the last few days, my family has been celebrating/remembering my father with Zoom. This virtual version of Jewish memorialization (Shiva) has been some combination of awkward, bizarre, and comforting. But Zoom Shiva has brought together a wide range of people and created a more focused discussion. Trade-offs with each choice.
Critical thinking and awareness of bias and fallacies are universally useful skills. Stay sharp, regardless of what happens.
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Latest data
FT data (No change in the presentation)
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Death vs. Cases in the US.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-cases-deaths?country=US
An estimate of the effective reproduction number by state (not updated daily)
https://rt.live/
What is this analysis about? http://systrom.com/topic/coronavirus/
In the last 48 hours, a few people shared articles. Thanks to everyone who is sending in links to content.
A NY Times article on vaccines has some hopeful sounding information regarding testing in monkeys.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.html
Likewise, the WSJ had an article on "a secret group of scientists and billionaires" working together to innovate on coronavirus. If you can ignore the "Luminati" feel to this story, the article does highlight how some very wealthy people are trying to help. It is an Apple News link since WSJ is behind a paywall.
https://apple.news/AIJ9JN8iOSWi-7qqjh9mIFA
Here is a very clear discussion about the way to test, trace, and isolate (as needed). Well worth the read.
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1254575445229441024
Last week a strange news conference by a pair of Bakersfield, CA, urgent care doctors unsettled me. Fortunately, others felt the same way and pointed out their numerous logical fallacies.
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1254481543759683584
Twitter used to brainstorm on COVID symptoms observed by frontline physicians.
https://twitter.com/LangoteAmit/status/1254659978478174209
Brian offered this article on the mechanisms of COVID. It is physiology and organ-based review. Sadly, this will be one of the best-understood disease processes by the time we are done.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes
I am not Canadian and have (apparently) under-appreciated the quandaries of living in a more hybridized imperial and metric society. I have no idea how accurate this is, but it made me laugh.
https://i.redd.it/m57ejjbh6ev41.jpg
---- Bonus Round Broadening Horizons edition
Here are some links to things I would like to learn more about:
Chinese films from the early 20th Century
http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/watch-12-classic-chinese-films-online-complete-with-english-subtitles-1920s-1940s.html
Andy Warhol. (The museum in Pittsburgh was closed when I went last Spring!)
http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/take-a-virtual-tour-of-the-andy-warhol-exhibition-at-the-tate-modern.html
Bats! (seems inappropriately topical) https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2020/04/27/diy-bat-colony/
Bonus- round homework - Send me a 500-word essay weaving the above three topics into a coherent discourse on "man's inhumanity to man." Go!
Clean hands and sharp minds, team
-Adam
I am pondering what the unintended consequences of this pandemic will be. So much time, energy, and resources are being directed to testing, vaccines, and therapies. We will have byproducts, both good and bad. And the day to day changes from telehealth to an intense interest in home-baking will have lasting repercussions (like remotely counseling people to eat less bread? Pro-yeast advocates?). Over the last few days, my family has been celebrating/remembering my father with Zoom. This virtual version of Jewish memorialization (Shiva) has been some combination of awkward, bizarre, and comforting. But Zoom Shiva has brought together a wide range of people and created a more focused discussion. Trade-offs with each choice.
Critical thinking and awareness of bias and fallacies are universally useful skills. Stay sharp, regardless of what happens.
----------
Latest data
FT data (No change in the presentation)
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Death vs. Cases in the US.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-cases-deaths?country=US
An estimate of the effective reproduction number by state (not updated daily)
https://rt.live/
What is this analysis about? http://systrom.com/topic/coronavirus/
In the last 48 hours, a few people shared articles. Thanks to everyone who is sending in links to content.
A NY Times article on vaccines has some hopeful sounding information regarding testing in monkeys.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.html
Likewise, the WSJ had an article on "a secret group of scientists and billionaires" working together to innovate on coronavirus. If you can ignore the "Luminati" feel to this story, the article does highlight how some very wealthy people are trying to help. It is an Apple News link since WSJ is behind a paywall.
https://apple.news/AIJ9JN8iOSWi-7qqjh9mIFA
Here is a very clear discussion about the way to test, trace, and isolate (as needed). Well worth the read.
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1254575445229441024
Last week a strange news conference by a pair of Bakersfield, CA, urgent care doctors unsettled me. Fortunately, others felt the same way and pointed out their numerous logical fallacies.
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1254481543759683584
Twitter used to brainstorm on COVID symptoms observed by frontline physicians.
https://twitter.com/LangoteAmit/status/1254659978478174209
Brian offered this article on the mechanisms of COVID. It is physiology and organ-based review. Sadly, this will be one of the best-understood disease processes by the time we are done.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes
I am not Canadian and have (apparently) under-appreciated the quandaries of living in a more hybridized imperial and metric society. I have no idea how accurate this is, but it made me laugh.
https://i.redd.it/m57ejjbh6ev41.jpg
---- Bonus Round Broadening Horizons edition
Here are some links to things I would like to learn more about:
Chinese films from the early 20th Century
http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/watch-12-classic-chinese-films-online-complete-with-english-subtitles-1920s-1940s.html
Andy Warhol. (The museum in Pittsburgh was closed when I went last Spring!)
http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/take-a-virtual-tour-of-the-andy-warhol-exhibition-at-the-tate-modern.html
Bats! (seems inappropriately topical) https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2020/04/27/diy-bat-colony/
Bonus- round homework - Send me a 500-word essay weaving the above three topics into a coherent discourse on "man's inhumanity to man." Go!
Clean hands and sharp minds, team
-Adam
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