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November 5, 2020 / Last updated : November 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CNN: What we can learn from 1918’s deadly second wave

CNN: What we can learn from 1918’s deadly second wave. “The 1918 pandemic transpired in three waves, from the spring of 1918 to the winter of 1919 — ultimately killing 50 million to 100 million people globally. The first wave in the spring of 1918 was relatively mild. A majority of 1918 flu deaths occurred […]

August 19, 2020 / Last updated : August 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: The Mask Slackers of 1918

New York Times: The Mask Slackers of 1918. “More than a century ago, as the 1918 influenza pandemic raged in the United States, masks of gauze and cheesecloth became the facial front lines in the battle against the virus. But as they have now, the masks also stoked political division. Then, as now, medical authorities […]

July 16, 2020 / Last updated : July 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

The Anti-Mask League of 1919: The Cultural Battle of an Enduring Pandemic (Untapped New York)

Untapped New York: The Anti-Mask League of 1919: The Cultural Battle of an Enduring Pandemic. “Before discussing the actions of the anti-mask league, it is critical to remember just how widespread and deadly the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was. The flu infected 500 million people around the world, 27% of the world’s population, and […]

July 2, 2020 / Last updated : July 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Washington Post: Coronavirus cases rose by nearly 50 percent last month, led by states that reopened first

Washington Post: Coronavirus cases rose by nearly 50 percent last month, led by states that reopened first. “Coronavirus infections in the United States surged nearly 50 percent in June as states relaxed quarantine rules and tried to reopen their economies, data compiled Wednesday showed, and several states moved to reimpose restrictions on bars and recreation. […]

June 23, 2020 / Last updated : June 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Guelph Now: Researchers Develop New Method Of Analyzing Social Media Data To Identify Potential Disease Outbreaks

Guelph Now: Researchers Develop New Method Of Analyzing Social Media Data To Identify Potential Disease Outbreaks. “A new method to analyze social media data could help predict future outbreaks of diseases and viruses like COVID-19 and the measles. In a new study, researchers from the University of Waterloo examined computer simulations to develop a new […]

June 21, 2020 / Last updated : June 21, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Coronavirus lockdowns may be driving another virus wave: Dengue fever (Straits Times)

Straits Times: Coronavirus lockdowns may be driving another virus wave: Dengue fever. “Getting people to hunker down at home has helped stem the coronavirus pandemic, but in parts of South-east Asia, it’s spurred another potentially deadly disease: dengue. The mosquito-borne viral illness, sometimes known as break-bone fever because of the joint-pain it inflicts, has skyrocketed […]

June 18, 2020 / Last updated : June 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: Slowing the Coronavirus Is Speeding the Spread of Other Diseases

New York Times: Slowing the Coronavirus Is Speeding the Spread of Other Diseases. “This spring, after the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned that the pandemic could spread swiftly when children gathered for shots, many countries suspended their inoculation programs. Even in countries that tried to keep them going, cargo flights with vaccine supplies were […]

June 8, 2020 / Last updated : June 8, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Washington Post: Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds

Washington Post: Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds. “Shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States and 285 million in China, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders and other restrictions limited the spread of the contagion. A separate study […]

May 7, 2020 / Last updated : May 7, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks

New York Times: Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks. “New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the […]

May 3, 2020 / Last updated : May 3, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America (Washington Post)

Washington Post: 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America. “The epidemiological models under review in the White House Situation Room in late March were bracing. In a best-case scenario, they showed the novel coronavirus was likely to kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. President Trump was apprehensive about so much carnage […]

April 26, 2020 / Last updated : April 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

WUWM: 40 Coronavirus Cases In Milwaukee County Linked To Wisconsin Election, Health Official Says

WUWM: 40 Coronavirus Cases In Milwaukee County Linked To Wisconsin Election, Health Official Says. “Forty people in Milwaukee County may have become infected with the coronavirus as a result of participating in Wisconsin elections on April 7. Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik says data is still being analyzed to show the connection between more people […]

April 25, 2020 / Last updated : April 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Washington Post: The pandemic at sea

Washington Post: The pandemic at sea. “A Post review of cruise line statements, government announcements and media reports found that the coronavirus infected passengers and crew on at least 55 ships that sailed in the waters off nearly every continent, about a fifth of the total global fleet. The industry’s decision to keep sailing for […]

April 25, 2020 / Last updated : April 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Wired: An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed

Wired: An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed. “Every hour seemed to bring major new developments: On Wall Street, after days of huge up-and-down gyrations, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,465 points and officially entered bear territory; Capitol Hill faced its first confirmed Covid-19 case; the NCAA announced it would play its basketball […]

April 25, 2020 / Last updated : April 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Vox: The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing

Vox: The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing. “Vox’s Ezra Klein has gone through some of the major proposals from several think tanks and researchers mapping the routes out of the pandemic. All of them involve testing huge numbers of people. One of the lower-end benchmarks estimates the US will need 750,000 […]

April 22, 2020 / Last updated : April 22, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force (Reuters)

Reuters: Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force. “As is now widely known, two agencies [Alex] Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn’t come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other […]

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